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 has not changed. 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. Endurance runs frozen goods for 24 hours on a single charge and chilled goods for up to two months. Those numbers matter on the road, and getting them right took years of obsessive engineering from a team drawn from automotive, aerospace, and motorsport.

We have gone from founding to manufacturing at scale globally in just six years. We built our own production facility in Surrey. Today we are 200 times larger by square footage than when we started. We operate on three continents — units run across the UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Chile, and Australia. And we are trusted by major brands like Tesco, Ocado, Birds Eye, and Happy Eggs every single day.

We have been named Sunday Times Best Place to Work in 2024, 2025 and 2026. We have won awards for innovation, technology, and marketing excellence. We have backing from leading investors including BGF, Barclays, Clean Growth Fund, Shell, and Rabobank.

We have got the customers, the traction, and the momentum. Now we are taking this British-engineered product global — scaling manufacturing, opening new markets, and building the team that will make legacy polluting technology obsolete across the world.

If you want to be part of a company that is 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 merch

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Job overview

We are looking for a finance analyst who wants to move beyond the investor seat and work directly inside a scaling business. You will work closely with the CEO and founding team, owning the financial model that underpins our strategic decision-making from commercial planning to supply chain investment to growth scenarios.

This is a high-impact, founder-facing role. We use the financial model to drive most of our key decisions, and we need someone who can make that process faster and sharper. You will do the analysis that allows us to move with confidence, partnering across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to turn complex data into clear, actionable insight.

Key responsibilities:

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
  

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
  

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
  

Qualifications & experience

• Experience in venture capital, private equity, or investment analysis, with a desire to move into an operating role
• Strong financial modelling capability and advanced Excel skills
• Experience using automation and/or AI to improve analysis or workflows
• Comfortable working with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and financial systems (e.g. Dynamics)
• Sharp commercial instincts and the ability to communicate complex financial insight clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led environment where priorities shift and speed matters

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