Head of Finance Business Partnering

Start Date: As soon as possible
Duration of Contract: Permanent
Probation Period: Six months
Gross Salary: circa £70,000 per annum (depending on skills & experience)
Location: Fauna & Flora, Cambridge
Current policy offers partial remote working within the UK

Fauna & Flora operates a model of Finance Business Partners who work alongside our
conservation teams to enable and champion best practice financial management across the
organisation. This newly created role, reporting directly to the Finance Director, will provide
proactive and hands-on team leadership to our Finance Business Partners. With an emphasis on
high quality and value-adding service delivery, this role will develop standard and consistent
processes and strengthen the integration between operations, programme and
fundraising/communications teams.

You will be CCAB qualified or equivalent, have excellent business partnering skills and a
proven track record of leading and developing high performing teams. You will have a highly
organised approach with the ability to identify areas of risk and to prioritise work across the
team as needed. You will have a continuous improvement mindset, developing and implementing
improvements to systems and processes. You will be proactive and be willing and able to engage
at a variety of levels, from high level analysis to more detailed work. You will be a member of
the UK-based Finance Team, and work with colleagues and partners across the world. Your strong
communication, interpersonal skills and customer focus will enable you to build effective
working relationships at all levels across the organisation.

You will enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where the ability to manage a
variety of concurrent tasks is paramount. In return, we offer the opportunity to work for a
ground-breaking organisation at the forefront of global conservation, with generous pension
contribution, attractive annual leave allowance, life insurance and salary exchange schemes. 

Our offices are located in The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge, just a few
minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the
central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants.

This role is being recruited with support from Oxford HR. 

The closing date for applications is 11 August 2024.