Finance Business Partner

The role is a critical part of helping to support their stakeholders on performance reporting, pricing and income optimisation with core responsibility focusing on value-add provision of robust data and insight and sound financial advice and support.

Client Details

The Customer Banking Finance Business Partnering Team support the Customer Banking Director, their direct reports and the relevant product teams in understanding and managing their financials end to end. The team will operate as a cohesive and fluid operating model, supporting the key priorities of the business and business strategy.

Description

The role is a critical part of helping to support Mortgage & General Insurance performance reporting, pricing and income optimisation with core responsibility focusing on value-add provision of robust data and insight and sound financial advice and support.

As this role is part of a small team, we are also looking for someone who is a flexible team player and can adapt their own priorities to support others in the team. No two days are the same in this department - it's a great opportunity to do a role with lots of variety with great exposure across many areas of the business.

To be successful you will:

• Build a reputation for providing top class support to stakeholders
• Bring new insights and guidance to the team, helping to support internal customers
• Being a proactive and trusted advisor, acting as Subject Matter Expert on pricing and trading data - helping the business to deliver on their strategy
• Partnering effectively with the business and the planning team to forecast margins and new business returns, helping to explain the drivers of any variances
• Distilling the financials into a simple business story, whilst always seeking to add actionable insight
• Challenging, evaluating and understanding the financial impact and benefit of pricing proposals, investment projects and other ad-hoc business cases

Profile

• A qualified accountant, with a strong commercial focus - attuned to evolving business needs
• Good working knowledge of trading margins, NPVs & RoEs
• Evidence of previous business partnering experience in a financial role
• Brilliant at communicating and building strong relationships with internal stakeholders
• Great organisation & prioritisation skills - able to proactively plan workload and meet deadlines autonomously
• Strong excel and analytical skills with proven experience of analysing large amounts of data (experience of working with Access & PowerBI would be advantageous)

Job Offer

• Generous salary of up to £60,000 pa
• Car allowance of £5k
• Excellent pension (5% employee / 13% employer)
• 4% flexi-cash (can be taken in to your salary)
• On target bonus of 10% (increases to max 12%)
• 30 days holiay with the ability to buy/sell more
• Private Medical
• 4x (up to 8x) Life assurance
• Share match scheme