Finance Business Partner

Team: Finance  
Reporting to: Jake Sydenham (Head of FB&A & Commercial Finance) 
Location: Toronto, Canada

GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress.  
 
We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions. 
 
Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. As imagineers we don’t just embrace innovation – we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs.  
 
This is where rebel thinking, smart technology, and data-driven creativity shape the future. Through our five specialist teams, Creative Studio, Conversion, Customer Science, Experience and Performance. Individually, and together, we work to fuel growth and deliver measurable impact. 

The Role

The Finance Business Partner plays a strategic role in driving business performance by providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support. Partnering with business leaders across functions, this role ensures alignment between financial planning and operational execution, delivering value through data-driven insights. Where there are gaps in processes, the FBP will highlight them and provide potential solutions. 

Responsibilities 

Stakeholder Engagement and Influence 

• Effectively communicate with and build strong relationships with global stakeholders at all levels fostering a collaborative environment.  

• Drive cross functional collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise to achieve shared objectives 

• Prepare impactful presentations to senior management articulating complex financial information with clarity 

 Driving Transformation 

• Enhancing financial reporting capabilities for both key components of the Conversion Business Unit, NA and EMEA, including embedding the financial processes for the recently in-housed accounting of the NA business.  

• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and systems. Develop and implement improvements  

 Month-end  

• Production and analysis of departmental management accounts before presentations to CFO/Head of FP&A 

• Standard month-end processing 

Planning and Analysis 

• Focus on Revenue, Delivery and sales opportunities 

• Annual Budget 

• Monthly rolling forecasts 

• Risks and Opportunity management  

• Business partnering financial & non-financial stakeholders 

• Scenario Planning 

• Ad hoc analysis required by Business Unit 

• Commercial Analysis (Client profitability, resource utilisation, etc) 

• Capex & Investment Committee papers/business cases