Job Description

The Vacancy
We have an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team and play a key role supporting the Managed Service division.
You'll partner closely with the operational leadership team to provide insightful financial analysis, robust forecasting, and meaningful business partnering. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape how financial data drives performance, efficiency, and strategic growth across a high-impact function.
What You'll Be Doing
Partner with the Managed Service leadership team to deliver accurate forecasting and insightful financial reporting for the P&L.
Support acquisition integration and consolidation activities across the Managed Service portfolio.
Analyse key KPIs, including recurring revenue, customer attrition, sales order performance, payslips processed, and delivery costs to drive operational performance.
Track and manage headcount, ensuring spend aligns with EBITDA targets and business objectives.
Design and implement models for forecasting, budgeting, and long-term strategic planning.
Deliver monthly reporting and variance analysis to aid business decision-making.
Collaborate with the wider finance team to enhance management information and reporting tools.
Support the UK Payroll & HR Finance Director on performance reviews, ARR analysis, and other ad hoc projects.
What You'll Bring
CIMA (or equivalent) qualified finance professional.
Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally within managed services, payroll, or other recurring revenue environments.
Exceptional analytical and modelling skills, highly proficient in Excel.
Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge and advise stakeholders.
Experience using financial systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, or Power BI/Tableau is desirable.
Commercial acumen, curiosity, and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
Why This Role Matters
The Managed Service function continues to grow rapidly through both organic expansion and acquisition. This role will be instrumental in helping IRIS maintain strong financial control, drive efficiency, and deliver value to our customers and shareholders.
It's an opportunity to work at the heart of one of IRIS's most dynamic business areas; partnering directly with senior leaders, influencing decisions, and supporting strategic initiatives that shape the future of our Managed Service offering.
Interested?
If you're ready to make an impact and contribute to one of IRIS's most exciting growth areas, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
About IRIS
As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers' businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It's vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That's why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time - so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We're delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Leading
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Excelling
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Growing
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee's development needs and providing a commitment to a 'learning culture' which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
Listening
We're committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Sharing
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.

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