Finance
Finance Business Partner
Job ID: 010353
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Salary: Circa £65,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner to join our team on a fixed term contract for 6 months.
You will use your excellent business partnering skills to build strong working relationships in order to provide insightful financial analysis of costs, support business case modelling, contribute to key decision making and proactively drive improved business performance.
This is a hybrid role with remote working and some onsite presence in our central Leeds offices.
Fixed Term Contract 6 months
About the role
This role will allow you to really get under the skin of your business areas, using your business partnering expertise you’ll successfully embed yourself and provide key financial analysis, support and challenge in relation to commercial trading activities.
You’ll be enabling the business to make well informed decisions leading to and supporting future growth, stability and providing value back to our members. Using your commercial, financial and modelling acumen, you will also provide insightful analysis, advice and challenge on performance and upcoming opportunities whilst also flagging risks and agreeing actions to mitigate them.
We are committed to providing our members with real help with real life, and you’ll be at the heart of decisions that will deliver this. That’s because you’ll be a trusted advisor and be involved in product changes, pricing and product development.
You’ll proactively drive improvement in your area and manage the development and maintenance of effective and efficient processes and systems. You’ll be improving forecasting and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate process.
About you
This is a business partnering role in the truest sense, so you’ll need proven experience of embedding yourself into a business and be great influencing and advising your stakeholders. You’ll use your commercial acumen to challenge and drive decision making and process improvements.
Ideally, you’ll have an Accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or have equivalent relevant finance experience.
You’ll be analytical and have experience in interrogating and using models and enjoy using data and insight to inform your decision making.
Don’t be dissuaded from applying if you don’t have any Financial Services experience. If you feel you have the finance business partnering skills to do the role, we can help you with the rest.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
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