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