Finance Business Partner -FP&A - #146195

Job title - Finance Business Partner - FP&A

Location – UK- Malvern- Hybrid

Role benefits – Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits + 25 holidays (plus Bank holidays) + Pension Scheme, and more!

Partners in Discovery. Together, we achieve more.

About The Role

At Malvern Panalytical, we’re seeking a proactive and commercially minded Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team. In this key role, you’ll provide strategic financial support to our Head Office functions, delivering high-quality cost analysis, forecasting, and budgeting insights that drive performance and informed decision-making.

You’ll take ownership of our SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning tool and play a pivotal role in enhancing our management reporting and business partnering capabilities. Operating within a dynamic, matrixed environment that spans FP&A, corporate functions, and other teams, your work will be integral to strengthening our financial planning processes and supporting the company’s strategic goals.

What you will bring to the role:

• Act as a Finance Business Partner within the FP&A team, helping to develop deeper insights into business performance through financial data analysis.
• Play a key role in forecasting and budgeting processes, covering Overhead Expenditure, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, and key performance indicators such as Working Capital.
• Partner with business leaders — including Head Office and IT — to support monthly reporting reviews and financial performance discussions.
• Coordinate and deliver timely and accurate group financial submissions in line with reporting requirements.
• Take ownership of, and drive improvements in, the SAC Planning tool to enhance forecasting and planning capabilities.
• Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to support and continuously improve reporting and insights using the SAC application
  
  

About you:

• Proficient in Excel, including pivot tables and advanced formulas, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to support effective decision-making.
• Good understanding of accounting principles and financial processes, with experience in forecasting, budgeting, and monitoring key performance indicators such as working capital and cash flow.
• Experienced in using finance systems, particularly SAP ERP and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), including SAC Stories and Planning tools.
• Skilled in owning and improving processes, with a focus on collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering value across teams.
• Confident communicator and team player, able to build positive relationships and work effectively with colleagues across different teams and levels of the organisation.
• Organised, proactive, and committed to delivering high-quality work, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a supportive and inclusive way.
  
  

Why you should join us:

• Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place
• Be a key member of our team in our amazing Malvern offices, with a hybrid working model
• Access to an onsite restaurant
• Gym discounts
• Volunteering days and much more
  
  

About Us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics And SciAps.

Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.

We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.

Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.

SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.

We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.

Part of Spectris plc, a publicly traded FTSE 250 company, Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps

Your Partners in Discovery

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.