Senior Finance Business Partner – Agile
This role is responsible for delivering high‑quality, decision‑oriented financial insights across an agile operating model, with structured reporting by Tribe, Segment and Chapter.
The role acts as a strategic finance partner to business leaders, translating financial data into actionable insights, and owning the allocation of costs to segments to ensure profitability, transparency and accountability across the organisation.
This is a forward‑looking role focused on value creation, commercial understanding, and informed decision‑making, rather than retrospective reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Act as a finance partner to Tribe Leads, Chapter Leads and Product Owners, embedded in agile ways of work
Participate in planning cycles (e.g. quarterly planning, sprint reviews, QBRs) providing financial insight and challenge
Support agile forecasting, rolling outlooks, and scenario analysis at Tribe and Segment level
Enable Tribes to understand financial consequences of delivery choice
Act as a bridge between agile finance partnering and traditional finance functions, ensuring alignment between insight‑led reporting and core financial
Work closely with Finance CoE and ensure Tribe, Segment and Chapter views reconcile to traditional reporting
Translate traditional financial outputs into insight‑driven views suitable for agile decision‑making
Align assumptions, allocation methodologies and performance narrative
Influence and challenge constructively across finance teams to evolve finance ways of working without undermining control, accuracy or governance
Support traditional finance partners in understanding agile constructs (Tribes, Chapters, Squads, value streams) and how financial performance is measured within the
Financial Insights & Decision Support
Produce clear, timely and insightful financial analysis to support decision‑making at Tribe, Segment and Chapter level
Move beyond “month‑end reporting” to explain drivers of performance, trends, risks and opportunities
Present insights in a way that is easily understood by non‑finance stakeholders
Reporting & Performance Management
Develop and maintain consistent Tribe, Segment and Chapter reporting framework
Ensure financial views reconcile to core financials while still being fit‑for‑purpose for agile decision‑making
Define and track key financial KPIs relevant to agile delivery and segment performance
Support senior leadership with packs, deep dives and narrative explanation
Segment Profitability & Cost Allocation
Own and continuously improve the allocation of costs to segments, ensuring allocations are logical, consistent, and economically meaningful
Clearly articulate and document assumptions, methodologies and impacts of cost allocation
Ensure segment profitability views are robust and trusted by senior stakeholders
Ensure cost allocation approaches are understood, supported and operationally feasible for accounting and reporting teams
Partner with Finance COE partners to ensure allocation logic is auditable and explainable
Consistently applied sustainable over time
Balance the needs of agile insight with the requirements of financial control and compliance
Governance & Continuous Improvement
Ensure financial insights and allocations comply with internal governance and accounting standards
Continuously improve data quality, transparency and automation of reporting
Work closely with Finance CoE partners to align insights with traditional reporting
Promote strong financial literacy across Segments, Tribes and Chapters
Key Relationships
Tribe Leads, Chapter Leads, Product Owners and Finance CoE (FP&A, Finance Business Partners)
Skills
Strong commercial finance background (FP&A, Business Partnering or Insights‑focused role)
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Proven experience producing financial insights, not just reports
Collaboration skills to work across a wide variety of teams with diverse deliverables
Ability to work to tight deadlines and multiple requests
Ability to present financial data to non‑financial people in a clear concise manner
Advanced financial modelling and scenario analysis capability
Experience influencing senior leaders
Self‑motivated, comfortable working independently and self‑managed
Desirable
Experience working in or alongside agile operating models (Tribes, Squads, Chapters or
similar). Experience working with cost allocation and profitability models, ideally by segment or business views.
Ways of Working
Mindset: Insight‑driven, curious and outcome‑focused
Comfortable with evolving structures
Pragmatic: balances financial rigour with business reality
Confident challenger who can explain “why” behind the numbers
Collaborative, with a strong service mindset towards the business
Measures of Success
Decision‑makers trust and actively use financial insight produced
Segment profitability and cost allocations are clearly understood and accepted
Tribes demonstrate improved financial ownership and decision quality
Financial insights are timely, relevant, and forward‑oriented
Benefits
Flexible working with our new Hybrid model, our employees will enjoy more flexibility working from home and our office locations (3 days per week office based). Please see job description for the office location of this role.
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus & pension company days annual leave buy or sell (buy or sell up to 5 days a L each year) Healthcare Insurance through our flexible benefits programme Life assurance, phone & laptop, subsidized canteen Access to learning & development tools such as Coursera, free on‑site parking.
At Three, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. As Ireland’s largest mobile telecommunications provider, we provide a better connected life for our diverse customer base, and want our teams to reflect this. We welcome and celebrate all identities and strive to create a culture of belonging where employees can thrive as their authentic selves. If you do not ‘tick every box’ in this job description, you likely have other valuable skills that would make you a great fit for one of our teams. If you feel this role is for you, then please apply!
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