Finance Business Partner

Together; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A lending institution based in Cheadle is seeking a Finance Business Partner to support the Sales & Distribution team. The role involves financial analysis, reporting, and providing insights to enhance sales performance. Candidates should be qualified accountants with strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers attractive benefits, including 26 days of annual leave and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Free access to company holiday homes

Health cash plan plus private medical insurance

Matched pension contribution

Free local gym access

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication delivered professionally.
• Experience business partnering with senior management or executives.
• A self-starting problem solver with an inquisitive mind.

Responsibilities

• Provide a forward looking business partnering service for the Sales & Distribution Director.
• Lead insight on sales efficiency and drive improvements.
• Monthly reporting on costs with variance analysis.

Skills

Excellent communication

Leadership

Relationship building

Influencing skills

Commercially astute

Strong MS Office skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Powerpoint

Job description

Company Description

Benefits of working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

Job Description

As a Finance Business Partner you will be working in the heart of our busy and growing Sales & Distribution function. The role sits within the Financial Performance team alongside two other business partners but has a dotted line to the Sales & Distribution leadership team where you will be considered a key member. The focus is to provide insight and challenge on their headcount, overhead spend, sales efficiency and help them deliver the growth in the 5 year plan.

As a Finance Business Partner you will:

• Provide a forward looking business partnering service for the Sales & Distribution Director and their leadership team, on which the role holder is considered a member, challenging them on what how they are managing their business to drive value for money and improved returns.
• Provide oversight and challenge on product pricing for both on and off rate card decisions, reviewing rate adherence by channel to ensure that the overall mix of sales is appropriate.
• Lead the monthly Trading meeting between the CFO and Sales & Distribution Director providing the insight and robust challenge to drive a productive conversation and action orientated outcome to improve sales performance.
• Lead insight on sales efficiency, understand trends and variances by area / channel to drive improvement in the sales function.
• Monthly reporting on costs, including variance analysis and a view on risks and opps to plan to the Sales & Distribution leadership team. Challenge sales activity spend to ensure that it is delivering results.
• Lead the annual Budget process and quarterly reforecasting process for costs and income for the Sales and Distribution business unit.
• Provide any further adhoc insight ad analysis required by the business area or internally from the Director of FP&A and CFO

Qualifications

Essential:

• Excellent communication, leadership, relationship building and influencing skills at a strategic level with the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences.
• An inquisitive mind that can think laterally about any potential consequences for the company, a self-starting problem solver.
• Strong written and verbal communication that is articulate, and delivered professionally, can negotiate and generate commitment.
• Commercially astute, pragmatic, value based decision maker.
• Experience business partnering senior management or executive level stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office suite skills (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Additional Information

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference - we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.