Senior Finance Business Partner

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 1,100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

This is a high-impact leadership role, supporting major, multi-year capital programmes at a pivotal moment of transformation for the Natural History Museum. You’ll lead financial business partnering for projects within our highest priority programme, NHM
150, helping to reshape our South Kensington estate and deliver infrastructure and technology investments that will future proof the Museum for the next 150 years.

Working closely with key senior stakeholders across project delivery and the wider organisation, you’ll provide clear, trusted financial insight and leadership to support decision-making, manage risk and challenge assumptions. As a senior member of the finance team, you’ll also play a key role in developing others, embedding best practice and strengthening finance’s contribution to the strategic ambitions of one of the most visited museums in the world.

We’re looking for someone who’s excited by the opportunity to help define and shape the future of finance at the Natural History Museum, using insight and analysis to influence decisions on some of our most ambitious and high-profile programmes. You’ll enjoy working on long-term, complex projects where your thinking can genuinely make a difference and where there’s space to challenge, innovate and improve how things are done.

You’ll be motivated by collaboration, influence, and the opportunity to build strong relationships across the Museum, acting as a trusted voice for finance and communicating complex information with clarity and confidence. You’ll also value the chance to lead and develop others and play a visible role in delivering the Museum’s long-term vision.

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and…