Senior Finance Business Partner

Location: Montreal

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Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Location s

CA-(Montréal)
Posted Date2 months ago(27/11/2025 10:57)
Job # of Openings1

Category Finance Banding7  Job Purpose  The Senior Finance Business Partner (FBP) will be responsible for providing financial support to the divisional management team and for driving the financial performance of the business, ensuring finance involvement in the development of the division's strategic direction. This will require you to provide insight into the business environment and the wider financial context. You will need to identify opportunities that will have a positive impact on value creation for the division.
You will report into and work closely with the Divisional Finance Director to support plans in key operational and strategic areas. This will involve interpreting and driving finance performance, advising on key business planning, trade-offs, and opportunities, and presenting a dynamic industry, competitors, and economic context.
About Group Finance
In joining RWS's Finance team you will be a critical part of supporting a listed world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. RWS has growing revenues of over £750m through a combination of value accretive acquisitions and organic growth. Group finance, led by our Group CFO;
Candy Davies, includes diverse teams across the globe operating in functions including business partnering, operational finance, specialist, and group functions. We cover a footprint of over 100 legal entities in 43 different countries worldwide.

It's a very exciting time to join RWS Finance for an individual who enjoys change and making an impact! As part of the overall RWS business strategy we are making a significant investment in upgrading our financial systems and processes to deliver enhanced reporting and control, more efficient processing enabling great value through enhanced business partnering and decision support.
Job Overview   

Key Responsibilities
Action and support divisional strategy  Develop strategic partnership with Divisional Finance Director as a trusted advisor
Drive Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) outputs including business plans, project and investment appraisals using divisional data
Challenge, highlight and investigate areas of opportunity for strategic recommendations

Provide divisional reporting & analytics  Contribute to the development and management of divisional strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts
Perform variance analysis on financial performance against divisional plan
Leverage business insights, scenario modelling and analysis to develop financial models and drive commercial decision-making and complex problem-solving

Ensure divisional compliance and financial control  Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards and internal policies and procedures
Prepare accurate and timely financial statements and reports
Ensure a robust control environment within divisional finance, adhering to internal controls and regulatory requirements

Support continuous improvement in the Group  Identify opportunities to improve existing financial processes
Closely follow-up macro-economic developments and assess impacts toward business
Focus on increasing analytics capabilities, including new initiatives to analyse data

Collaborate with other teams
Skills & Experience
8+ years FP&A or finance business partnering experience, 3+ years on a senior role
Professional certified qualification (CFA/CPA/CA/AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent)
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline
Strong English language skills
Expert knowledge in business analysis, analysing large data sets and information management
Experience in data modelling, and simplifying complex data into compelling, clear, and actionable insights using Excel and reporting tools
Advanced MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret customer and financial data
Working knowledge of core finance…