About the role
As a Finance Business Partner at Foster + Partners, you will play a key role in supporting our Specialist Teams Group, partnering with senior leaders to drive commercial performance, improve operational visibility, and influence strategic decision-making. Working across eight specialist disciplines that support project delivery, you will provide financial insight, develop meaningful performance metrics, and help teams make informed decisions around workload, resources, utilisation, and profitability. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working closely with stakeholders and making a tangible impact on business performance.
- Partner directly with senior leaders and influence business decisions.
- Turn financial and operational data into meaningful insights.
- Shape reporting, forecasting, and performance management processes.
- Drive improvements across systems, processes, and ways of working.
- Work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment supporting creative specialist teams.
- Strong financial and analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities.
- Confident communication and presentation skills.
- Commercial awareness with an interest in operational performance and resource planning.
- Advanced Excel skills, with Power BI knowledge advantageous.
- A proactive, adaptable approach and a drive for continuous improvement.
- Qualified/Part-qualified accountant status with relevant finance experience desirable.
We offer a benefits package designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. This includes: private medical insurance for you and your family; life assurance; personal travel insurance; access to a range of wellbeing support, comprising virtual GP services, mental health support and lifestyle coaching; as well as discount programmes for various retailers. On our London campus, we have subsidised catering facilities and host regular social events, and sports activities, for everyone to enjoy.
To support you in building a meaningful career, the practice offers opportunities to develop both your technical and non-technical skills through continuous learning, professional development support, and knowledge sharing and insights from experienced colleagues.
If our designs spark your curiosity and you would like to contribute to solving complex challenges with local and global impact, we invite you to join our team. You’ll be challenged and inspired, collaborating on extraordinary projects in an environment designed to cultivate excellence.