Debt Finance Business Partner

Yü Group; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance company in the UK is seeking a Debt Finance Business Partner to support financial reporting and optimize debt collection strategies. Successful candidates will be qualified accountants with strong analytical skills and experience in a commercial finance environment. This role offers competitive salary and a range of employee benefits including annual leave, development opportunities, and more.

Benefits

24 days annual leave + bank holidays

Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days

Day off on your birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual salary review

Learning and development opportunities

Enhanced parental policies

Long service recognition

Company sick pay

Qualifications

• Recently qualified accountant with experience in a commercial finance function.
• Strong technical skills in preparing monthly management accounts and analyzing complex datasets.
• Energy industry experience is desirable; debt experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with debt operations to enhance debt collection metrics.
• Produce financial reports and analyses for the Retail Business Unit.
• Oversee management of customer debt and recovery processes.

Skills

Business Partnering

Financial Reporting

Data Analysis

Communication

Time Management

Team Collaboration

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

MS Excel

Debt Case Management Systems

Job description

Debt Finance Business Partner

Department: YUR - 2135 - Retail Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Leicester

Reporting To: Senior Retail Finance Manager

Compensation: £45,000 - £55,000 / year

Description

Reports to: Senior Retail Finance Manager

Location: Nottingham / Leicester / Hybrid

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

We’re looking for a talented and ambitious person to join our rapidly growing business. Working in the Finance team, the successful candidate will partner the Debt team and help produce insightful financial information related to the Debt book for our Retail Business Unit. The candidate will support budgets, forecasts for BU Retail, as well as generating insight that will allow the business to optimise debt collection activity and reduce bad debt costs.

The role will involve you working closely with Head of Debt and debt team along with Group finance to bridge the debt activity and interpreting the financial impact.

Passionate and motivated people are the power behind our growth so we’re looking to expand our team and you could be part of our success story.

Role will be office based in either Leicester or Nottingham, but occasional travel to both sites will be required.

What We Need from Yü

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing:

• Business Partnering responsibility for Debt, working closely with colleagues in debt operations and driving improvements to debt collection metrics.
• Supporting the production of the Retail Business Unit financial and management reporting.
• Producing monthly debt outputs, including information to prepare the bad debt provision in the management accounts.
• Preparation of debt analysis and MI packs including relevant and insightful variance analysis and helping to formulate debt collection strategies.
• Help to drive improvement and innovation of Financial processes related to debt, including identification of automation opportunities.
• Support and identify reporting in newly implemented Debt Case Management system
• Draw relationships between business actions e.g. collections strategy and financial performance, including reconciliation between expectations and actual results.
• Analysis of debt variances to budget, providing commentary to the CFO and Head of Debt.
• Analyse debt trends and customer payment behaviours, providing insights to senior leadership to inform pricing, risk management, and customer relationship management.
• Oversee the management and recovery of customer debt, ensuring effective credit control processes and minimising bad debt exposure across commercial accounts.
• Develop and implement debt collection strategies, balancing regulatory compliance with customer relationship management.
• Collaborate within the organisation and forge strong relationships with key stakeholders across the different functions.
• Work at pace and have the ability to prioritise multiple deadlines.
• Perform ad-hoc tasks and analysis to meet the needs of the business.

About Yü

If you have what it takes you could be just what we’re looking for…

• Qualified – you will be a recently qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA /ACA) with. Experience of working in a commercial finance function would be an advantage.
• Knowledgeable – you are technically strong with experience of supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts to strict deadlines and analysing complex datasets.
• An expert - energy industry experience is desirable but not essential. Experience of working in Debt would be advantageous.
• Skilled – excellent MS excel and data analysis skills are required
• Ambitious – you don’t just want another job, you want a career
• Team player – you’re happy to help a fellow colleague
• Motivated – you have a can-do attitude and love to learn
• Goal orientated – you proactively love hitting, exceeding and driving your own targets
• Accuracy – High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Communication – confidently and accurately communicate through verbal and written forms
• Friendly – you’re always polite and speak to people with respect

Benefits

We have a wide range of benefits for our employees including:

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days
• Day off on your birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual salary review
• Learning and development opportunities
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
• Yü made a difference Awards
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance
• Long service recognition
• Refer a friend payment
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
• New modern facilities
• Death in service and critical illness cover
• Plus, many more

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have an indefinite right to work in the UK.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to help you apply for a role, please let us know and we will see what we can do.


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