Global Finance Business Partner

Overview Vista Health is a global healthcare consultancy operating across Asia Pacific, Europe, and emerging markets, partnering with organisations across the healthcare ecosystem to deliver value-based healthcare insights and solutions. As the business continues to scale internationally, Vista Health is seeking a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to support performance, improve decision quality, and help build a robust, insight-led finance capability across the company. Role purpose Reporting to the Managing Director, the Finance Business Partner works closely with senior leadership (including Board members), geography leads, pillar leaders and operational teams to provide clear, decision-ready financial insight across client engagements, offerings, and markets. The position goes beyond traditional finance support by acting as a strategic advisor, combining strong financial analysis, commercial challenge, and hands-on process improvement to support sustainable and profitable growth. The successful candidate is responsible for partnering with business leaders to improve financial performance, strengthen planning and forecasting, and translate financial and operational data into practical actions. The role supports global financial discipline through budgeting, reporting, KPI tracking, project margin analysis, and business case evaluation, while also helping improve systems, data quality, and finance processes. Candidate profile The ideal candidate is a qualified finance professional with strong commercial acumen, excellent analytical skills, and proven experience in business partnering, financial planning and analysis, or commercial finance. This person should be comfortable working in a growing, international, and fast-paced environment, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence senior stakeholders. Key responsibilities Partner with senior stakeholders across departments, geographies, and service lines to support strategic and operational decision-making with clear financial insight and constructive challenge. Lead and coordinate budgeting, forecasting, and longer-range planning processes in line with the company’s strategic priorities. Deliver timely and accurate monthly management reporting, including variance analysis, trend analysis, risk and opportunity identification, and clear commentary for senior leaders. Track project and client profitability, monitor effort-based revenue recognition, and support margin improvement across engagements, teams, and markets. Evaluate business cases, investments, pricing decisions, and strategic initiatives using scenario planning, ROI analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and financial modelling. Monitor and report on KPIs and key financial and operational metrics, ensuring leaders and Board members have visibility of performance against targets. Support commercial decision-making by analysing costs, pricing, resource deployment, and delivery economics to improve profitability and efficiency. Work with finance and operational colleagues to improve reporting, controls, and data integrity across the organisation. Help develop finance data foundations across the general ledger and project accounting environment, ensuring consistency in core financial definitions and reporting outputs. Support the implementation and optimisation of finance systems, planning tools, dashboards, and BI reporting to reduce manual reporting and improve insight quality. Translate complex financial data into concise, practical recommendations that non-finance stakeholders can act on quickly. Build strong cross-functional relationships and act as a trusted finance contact for senior stakeholders across the business. Contribute to continuous improvement in financial processes, reporting cadence, and performance management disciplines as the company scales internationally. Experience and qualifications Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent, with minimum 8-10 years’ experience. Strong experience in finance business partnering, FP&A, commercial finance, or a related senior finance leadership role. Experience in a professional services, consulting, or project-based revenue environment is strongly preferred. Strong financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and modelling capability. Hands-on advanced experience with Xero or an equivalent accounting platform (configuration, reporting, integrations) and CRM platform such as HubSpot (pipeline reporting, revenue lin…