R&D Business Partner

R&D Business Partner

Gerrards Cross - Hybrid

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, US, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

The R&D Business Partner is responsible for providing financial oversight and analysis across R&D, Product and IT functions. This role delivers visibility into R&D investment, technology spending, and AI adoption, connecting engineering and infrastructure costs to delivery outcomes.

The R&D Business Partner works with R&D, Product and IT leadership to build product-level profitability analysis, support investment decision-making, and maintain governance frameworks for material spend.

This role utilises financial data and operational metrics to produce reporting and analysis that informs leadership decision-making on investment allocation and programme performance.

Key Responsibilities

R&D Delivery and Investment Tracking

• Track R&D delivery performance against roadmap and investment case.

• Develop investment case templates for new R&D and infrastructure expenditure.

• Conduct post-investment reviews documenting programme outcomes versus approved investment cases.

Product P&L Ownership

• Build and maintain product-level P&Ls covering revenue, cost and contribution analysis.

• Provide Product and R&D leadership with visibility into product unit economics.

AI and Technology Economics

• Quantify ROI on AI initiatives, including cost, adoption and value metrics.

• Develop business cases for AI and technology investments with tracking of realised value.

• Maintain current understanding of AI and technology cost economics.

Infrastructure Spend and Capacity Analysis

• Analyse hosting spend and capacity allocation across R&D programmes.

• Maintain and update infrastructure cost models.

• Monitor and report on cost performance against approved forecasts.

Business Partnering and Governance

• Support R&D, Product and IT leadership with financial analysis and business case development.

• Establish and maintain governance frameworks for R&D investment approval.

• Build reporting routines and dashboards to provide leadership with timely visibility of spend and performance.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• 4+ years in FP&A, R&D finance, technology finance, product finance or business partnering roles in SaaS or technology organisations.

• Demonstrated experience in business partnering with technical or product stakeholders.

• Advanced financial modelling skills including P&L development, cost allocation and scenario analysis.

• Ability to work with engineering, product and infrastructure data and challenge technical stakeholder assumptions.

• Knowledge of AI and technology economics and ability to translate this into investment frameworks.

• Attention to detail in financial analysis and reporting.

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Desirable

• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Looker.

• SQL or Python experience for data manipulation.

• Experience with Agile delivery or product management tools including Jira.

• Degree in finance, economics, mathematics, computer science or equivalent professional experience.

Our Values

We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.

We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.

We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.

We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.

• 4% matched pension.

• Income protection and life assurance.

• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.

• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.

• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• Paid study leave + volunteering days.

• Electric Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.