Finance Business Partner - IT

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Perth or Glasgow office

Salary: £58,100- £87,100 + performance related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time Flexible First options available

Role Overview

This is a meaningful opportunity to step into a senior Finance Business Partner role supporting IT, where you'll work closely with senior leaders to shape financial insight, guide decision making, and help deliver real value. You'll play a central role in building strong partnerships across IT and Finance, ensuring cost control, enabling investment decisions, and embedding thoughtful, forward looking financial processes. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, this role offers the chance to influence at scale while contributing to a supportive and inclusive environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear, insightful financial analysis and narrative to support IT and Finance leadership in making informed decisions.
• Identify risks, pressures, and opportunities, working collaboratively to develop supportive intervention plans.
• Lead financial input into investment cases, including assessment, sign off, and ongoing benefits realisation.
• Create and maintain a trusted IT performance scorecard, bringing together financial and non financial insights.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, reporting, and management information.

Qualifications

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with strong post qualification experience in a business facing role.
• Experience in finance business partnering, ideally within IT or a large, complex organisation.
• A thoughtful approach to managing cost bases, investments, and benefits realisation.
• Experience shaping financial processes and governance frameworks.
• Strong relationship building skills, with the confidence to influence and support senior stakeholders constructively.

Benefits

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Equal Opportunity Statement

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact / to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.