Finance
Lead Finance Business Partner - Sunderland
Job Description

Are you ready to make a real impact in a global manufacturing environment?

Join us at Grundfos as a Lead Finance Business Partner (FBP) and become a key member of our plant leadership team, supporting multiple factories across Sunderland and Milan.

In this strategic role, you’ll drive financial transparency, deliver high-quality analysis, and play a vital part in shaping business decisions and performance management. You’ll collaborate closely with plant leadership and the global finance community to ensure financial excellence and operational success.

 

As Lead FBP, you will:

  • Deliver complex financial analysis and high-quality performance reporting for the performance unit.
  • Evaluate business cases and projects with an end-to-end perspective in close collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Integrate performance management tools and methods into business dialogues.
  • Act as a proactive business partner, constructively challenging and supporting the plant management team.
  • Drive performance management through insightful analysis to support decision-making.
  • Be accountable for all local finance matters, working closely with the Global ONE Finance Team on outsourced finance elements.

 

Your background:

  • Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.
  • 3–4 years of experience in business controlling, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
  • Advanced Excel skills; experience with SAP ERP & BW, Power BI, and VBA is a plus.
  • Strong analytical mindset and structured approach to complex issues.
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and meet tight deadlines.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented attitude.
  • A natural drive to lead, influence, and continuously learn.

 

What’s in it for you? 
Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.


In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

  • If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a good workstation. However, you are always welcome to our offices where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues 
  • Annual bonuses, health insurance, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes
  • Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development
  • Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly

To dig deeper into the Grundfos universe, follow us on LinkedIn or Youtube, and to get to know some of your future colleagues and why they love working at Grundfos, check out Meet our people.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

Information at a Glance

Job details

Workplace:  Hybrid (office and home-working)
Job Location:  Castletown, Sunderland, United Kingdom
Contract Type:  Full-Time
Employment Type:  Regular

About Grundfos

Grundfos is one of the world’s leading water technology companies with more than 19.000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do, as we believe innovation is not only a business opportunity, but an obligation. And what really matters to us is not short term profit, but the impact we make. By becoming part of our united powerful team, you too can drive this change no matter your role.

An inclusive team

We believe that the key to a work environment, where employees thrive and grow, is our ability to celebrate and value our differences in background, experiences and perspectives. In our recruitment process we welcome all professional people without consideration of age, colour, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ethnicity or religion.

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