Global EA Finance Business Partner

The Global EA Finance Business Partner delivers strategic financial insight and constructive challenge to senior leadership, leads initiatives to enhance financial performance, and provides leadership to finance teams across assigned business areas. The role is responsible for driving financial performance, developing talent, ensuring strong financial governance, and supporting strategic business decision-making across the EA organization. This position ensures optimum performance, accountability, and financial transparency for the EA business, working closely with sector leadership and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of financial objectives, forecasts, and operational performance. The role is suited to an experienced finance professional with a minimum of 7 years of progressive finance experience and a m inimum 2 years of direct people management responsibility, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and leading finance teams within a complex global environment. Responsibilities will comprise supporting multiple areas, including but not limited to: Business Partnering and Commercial Support • Provide finance business partnering support to senior commercial and operational leaders, offering clear financial insights and constructive challenge. • Prepare, review, and present the annual corporate budget and periodic reforecasts for assigned accounts. • Ensure alignment between global and regional EA financial budgets, forecasts, and actual performance. • Review, challenge, and validate assumptions provided by accounts across the region regarding business activities and financial outcomes. • Support decision-making through forward-looking analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling, and risk assessment. • Identify and prioritize financial improvement initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, compliance, and business performance. • Work alongside the FP&A team to produce budgets, forecasts, bid and commercial reviews, and ad hoc financial analysis. • Support the Financial Control team in the production of monthly variance analysis and management commentary. • Ensure financial controls and accounting policies are applied consistently, working in partnership with the Financial Control team. • Oversee the financial integrity of contracts within the assigned sector, ensuring compliance with company policies and accounting requirements. • Drive standardization, simplification, and best practices across contract accounting and financial management processes. • Influence strategic and operational decision-making through financial analysis, performance insights, and recommendations. • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across finance, commercial, and operational functions. • Ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial performance, risks, and opportunities. People Leadership and Team Management • Lead, manage, and develop finance team members, establishing clear objectives and performance expectations. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus within the finance team. • Provide coaching, mentoring, and development opportunities to build team capability and support career progression. • Drive succession planning and talent development to ensure a sustainable and high-performing finance function. • Support organizational change initiatives and promote adoption of new processes and ways of working. Governance and Compliance • Ensure compliance with internal policies, financial controls, and governance requirements. • Support internal and external audit activities as required. • SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable. • Minimum 7 years' progressive experience in finance, commer