Finance Business Partner (Commercial / FP&A)

About us:

Every refrigerated truck and trailer moving goods across the country has relied on diesel for decades. It's polluting, expensive, and the technology hasn't change. Two companies have dominated the market, selling the same legacy technology with minor updates.

Sunswap makes the electric refrigeration that's replacing it - zero emissions, lower operating costs, built from the ground up for how fleets actually operate. We've gone from founding to manufacturing at scale globally in just six years. We built our own production facility in Surrey. We are trusted by major brands like Tesco, Ocado, Birds Eye, and Happy Eggs every single day. With units operating across the UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Chile, and Australia.

We've been named Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2024 and 2025. We've won awards for innovation, technology, and marketing excellence. We've secured backing from BGF, Barclays, and Clean Growth Fund. We've got the customers, the traction, and the momentum. Now we're taking this British-engineered product global. Scaling manufacturing. Opening new markets. Building the team that will make legacy polluting technology obsolete across the world.

If you want to be part of a company that's setting new standards for the industry and scaling internationally, this is it.

Our benefits

• 30 days of annual leave (includes a Wellbeing Day)
• Sabbatical (after 3 years of working with Sunswap)
• 5 free counselling sessions per year
• Family leave ranging from 4 weeks to 4 months
• Free Monthly Lunches & Quarterly Socials!
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Sunswap merchFree Sunswap merch

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Job overview

We are looking for a commercially driven finance professional who turns complex data into clear, strategic insight. This is a high-impact role at the centre of decision-making, combining strong financial modelling with a forward-looking approach to automation and AI. You will partner across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to shape forecasts, challenge assumptions, and drive better business outcomes.

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Key responsibilities:

AI, Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive the use of AI, automation, and BI tools within your role to improve financial modelling, forecasting accuracy, and reporting efficiency
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual processes and enhance insight generation
• Continuously improve financial processes, tools, and methodologies to scale with the business

Cross-Functional Partnering

• Partner with Commercial, Supply Chain and Finance teams to align assumptions across revenue, pricing, pipeline, and cost inputs
• Challenge and refine non-finance assumptions to ensure robust, commercially sound decision-making
• Support pricing strategy and margin optimisation through close collaboration with commercial teams

Financial Modelling & Forecasting

• Build and maintain robust, driver-based financial models to support strategic decision-making
• Lead cash flow and working capital forecasting, incorporating operational drivers (e.g. customer and supplier terms, inventory, lead times, liquidity)
• Perform scenario, sensitivity, and variance analysis to inform planning and performance
• Translate financial analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders

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Qualifications & experience:

• 3–5+ years in FP&A, commercial finance, or similar (experience in venture capital or VC-backed businesses advantageous)
• Advanced Excel and strong financial modelling capability
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and financial systems (e.g. Dynamics)
• Experience using automation and/or AI to improve workflows or analysis
• Strong analytical, commercial, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to communicate complex financial insights to non-finance stakeholders

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Qualifications:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Maths or similar
• ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CFA (preferred)