Finance Business Partner

GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech, and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress.

We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organizations need to make braver, more impactful decisions.

Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. As imagineers, we don’t just embrace innovation – we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs.

The Role

The Finance Business Partner plays a strategic role in driving business performance by providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support. Partnering with business leaders across functions, this role ensures alignment between financial planning and operational execution, delivering value through data-driven insights. Where there are gaps in processes, the FBP will highlight them and provide potential solutions.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

• Effectively communicate with and build strong relationships with global stakeholders at all levels, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise to achieve shared objectives.
• Prepare impactful presentations to senior management, articulating complex financial information with clarity.

Driving Transformation

• Enhance financial reporting capabilities for both key components of the Conversion Business Unit, NA and EMEA, including embedding financial processes for the recently in-housed accounting of the NA business.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and systems. Develop and implement improvements.

Month-end

• Production and analysis of departmental management accounts before presentations to CFO/Head of FP&A.
• Standard month-end processing.

Planning and Analysis

• Focus on Revenue, Delivery, and sales opportunities.
• Annual Budget.
• Monthly rolling forecasts.
• Risks and Opportunity management.
• Business partnering with financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Scenario Planning.
• Ad hoc analysis required by Business Unit.
• Commercial Analysis (Client profitability, resource utilization, etc.).
• Capex & Investment Committee papers/business cases.

Requirements

• 5+ years PQE (ACA/CIMA/ACCA).
• Experience business partnering Senior Leadership Teams.
• Experience using large datasets, strong Excel modelling, and data-driven skills.
• Ideally, experience of working within a marketing, digital, or creative agency environment.
• Experience in influencing strategic decisions of a business using a variety of data sources to back up recommendations and analysis.
• You have built best practices and are used to a dynamic business environment where problem-solving and process implementation are attractive challenges.

How You'll Work

Rebel Thinking: We don’t accept “good enough.” Rebel Thinking is about curiosity with courage. We make it safe to question assumptions, challenge the obvious, and explore smarter, braver ways forward, even when it feels uncomfortable. This is how new ideas, better products, and real breakthroughs happen.

Make It Happen: “We turn intent into momentum.” Making it Happen is about turning ambition into action. We move fast, learn fast, and push through obstacles together. Progress beats perfection, and momentum creates impact.

Swarming Our Expertise: “Individually smart. Collectively unstoppable.” Swarming our Expertise means we win together. We commit to developing our expertise so that by combining diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences, we solve harder problems faster and deliver results no single expert could achieve together.

Benefits

• 3 weeks of paid time off to start.
• Work from anywhere in the world up to 20 business days or 4 weeks per year! We want you to build a life and a career at the same time.
• Wellness time, health + dental coverage, health spending account, and wellness spending account so that you can prioritize YOU.