We're looking for a Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our Commercial Finance team and play a key role in driving revenue growth, improving performance, and influencing strategic decision-making across the business.
Working within the wider FP&A function, you'll partner with teams across Revenue & Yield, Marketing, Digital Trading, and our Customer Service Centre. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you'll combine financial expertise with commercial insight to help optimise trading performance, maximise marketing investment, and support the growth of one of the UK's leading holiday operators.
What you will be doing...- Partner with senior leaders across Revenue & Yield, Marketing, Digital Trading and Customer Service Centre functions.
- Provide commercial insight and financial challenge to support strategic decision-making.
- Analyse trading performance, customer behaviour and revenue drivers, translating data into meaningful recommendations.
- Support initiatives focused on revenue growth, occupancy optimisation, yield management and customer acquisition.
- Develop robust business cases and investment appraisals for key projects and initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, increase margins and optimise costs.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and planning activities for supported business areas.
- Deliver monthly performance reporting, variance analysis, and financial commentary.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders to support business performance reviews.
- Drive improvements in reporting, forecasting and commercial analytical capabilities.
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A or Finance Business Partnering roles.
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting and analytical skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge and influence at all levels.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information in a clear and engaging way to non-finance audiences.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience using financial planning and reporting tools.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, Tableau or other data visualisation tools would be advantageous.
- Experience within hospitality, leisure, travel, retail or e-commerce sectors is beneficial but not essential.
Well, besides the one-of-a-kind team culture, stunning locations across the UK, and the chance to work with the UK's largest holiday park organisation, we can offer:
- The chance to develop your skills and boost your career across our 65 parks – we’ve got your back when it comes to training!
- You’re never on your own with our Employee Assistance Programme! It comes with a 24/7 confidential helpline for counselling and support - because your wellbeing is our top priority.
- A 50% discount for you and a 25% discount for friends and family when booking your holiday with us.
- A team member discount of 30%, available on everything from fabulous food to delicious drinks and even our fun leisure activities.
- Score awesome discounts! From tasty meal kits like Hello Fresh to your favourite local gyms, we’ve got deals on lots of brands just for you.
We want to be a force for good and caring for our parks, people, and planet is a natural component of the way we do business. We celebrate our people, communities and natural environment, enabling us to enhance the amazing memories we create for many years to come.
At Parkdean Resorts, every park is a place to start something great; a place where you can develop your skills, take on new challenges, and thrive alongside a team that supports you every step of the way.
Our parks create meaningful memories for our guests and know that great service is more than a smile - it’s understanding the value of every moment. Because it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. Join a team that puts heart into every holiday. Be the Heart of the Park.
Parkdean Resorts takes safeguarding seriously therefore background checks including DBS (or equivalent) will be carried out if appropriate.
We want to do all we can to create an environment and recruitment process where people feel safe and comfortable to talk about disability. For any reasonable adjustment requests as part of the recruitment and assessment process, please contact Roisin at [email protected]
Skills Required
- Fully qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification
- Significant experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or finance business partnering
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including confidence challenging and influencing at all levels
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance audiences
- Advanced Excel skills and experience using financial planning and reporting tools
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, Tableau, or other data visualization tools
- Experience in hospitality, leisure, travel, retail, or e-commerce sectors
What We Do
Parkdean Resorts is the UK's leading holiday-park operator, welcoming more than three million holidaymakers annually across 65 parks. It provides family-focused accommodation and leisure experiences, including static caravans, luxury lodges, glamping, touring and camping pitches. The company also serves holiday-home owners and sells approximately 600,000 holidays each year, while emphasizing memorable guest experiences and responsible care for its parks, people and planet.
