Finance Business Partner

Join us as a Finance Business Partner

• We’ll look to you to provide financial support, guidance, challenge and insight for the executive and senior management of the business
• You’ll be influencing business decisions by providing commercial and financial expertise, ensuring compliance with the bank’s governance
• This challenging and rewarding role offers significant exposure and the opportunity to raise your profile across the bank

What you'll do

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll be managing the relationship between Finance and your business area. You’ll be working with business intelligence and financial control teams to prioritise workloads and commission deep dive, modelling and spotlight work from business intelligence colleagues to enable business partners to support and challenge the business.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Liaising with finance subject matter experts on treasury, capital planning, tax and risk matters
• Reviewing, challenging and influencing all investment decisions
• Making sure that appropriate tracking and support is in place to measure project deliverables
• Supporting changes to the operating model to make sure the business is at the forefront of the operating model, and that future finance demands are proactively addressed
• Assisting with the promotion of revenue, cost and capital management leadership across the allocated business

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with a CA, ACA, CIMA, MBA qualification or equivalent, and financial services and business partnering experience. Along with good commercial decision making and negotiation skills, you'll be comfortable operating within a matrix structure organisation, and you'll have the ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk.

With excellent communication and influencing skills, you'll need the ability to communicate complex financial information in a concise, non-technical manner.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Effective analytical and time management skills
• Good computer literacy with a high level of PowerPoint and Excel skills
• A flexible approach
• The ability to work in an agile manner to deliver business outcomes
• Strong stakeholder and people management skills