Finance Business Partner
Type of contract: Permanent
Location: UK
Salary: The starting salary is £50,498 per annum with the possibility of up to £54,826 based on an assessment of skills and experience at the interview stage
Closing date: Tuesday, 11th March 2025
Interview dates: Monday, 17th March 2025

At World Animal Protection, we are driven by our mission to create a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in enabling the financial management and decision making of our organisation by providing expert financial support, insight, and guidance to budget holders. This is a highly collaborative position that requires a deep understanding of both financial principles and the operational work of the teams you support.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for delivering accurate financial analysis, assisting with budgeting and forecasting, and supporting decision-making to optimise resource allocation. You will work closely with teams across the organisation, ensuring financial processes are well understood and that budget holders are empowered to make informed financial decisions.

This is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional who is passionate about making an impact in a global, mission-driven organisation. If you have strong management accounting experience, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to business partnering, we invite you to be part of our mission to protect animals worldwide.

Who are we?
World Animal Protection is the global voice for animal welfare, with 75 years’ experience campaigning for a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.
We have offices in 14 countries and work across 47 countries. We collaborate with local communities, the private sector, civil society and governments to change animals’ lives for the better.

Our goal is to change the way the world works to end animal cruelty and suffering for both wild and farmed animals. Through our global food system strategy, we’re working to end factory farming and create a humane and sustainable food system, that puts animals first. By transforming the broken systems that fuel exploitation and commodification, we will give wild animals the right to a wildlife. Our work to protect animals will play a vital role in solving the climate emergency, the public health crisis, and the devastation of natural habitats.

What can we offer you?
We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including.

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 24 days’ holiday per year when you join.
• Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
• Additional 3 days to be taken at the end of the calendar year.
• 2 global Wellbeing midyear closure days
• Flexibility – the opportunity to choose start times that align with both business needs and your work-life balance, ensuring the right fit for both the job holder and the role requirements
• Life Assurance - all World Animal Protection employees receive Life Assurance. Under the Death in Service benefit scheme the employee will receive 3x annual salary to go to their nominated beneficiary.
• A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': providing various types of leave to support belonging and inclusion at work and to assist our employees during critical moments. This includes leave for Bereavement, Carers, Disability, Menstrual/Menopause, Pregnancy Loss, Fertility Treatment, Gender Affirming Medical needs, Companion Animal Bereavement, and 'Pawternity' leave.

To achieve our aim of making World Animal Protection a Diverse and Inclusive employer, we particularly welcome applications from individuals of traditionally under-represented communities and backgrounds.

At World Animal Protection we recruit with our values & behaviours in mind. Please bear this in mind through your application journey. These are:

Global: We make decisions & act with a global mindset
Diverse and Inclusive: We actively encourage and promote diversity, ensure all voices are heard and included and are committed to equal opportunities for all
Collaborative: We work together and co-create to achieve lasting change
Agile: We make change happen in a fast-moving world
Growing People: We continually learn and develop
Accountable: We are role models. We take responsibility for our actions and encourage others to do the same
Courageous: We push boundaries, take risks and set ambitious targets