Finance Business Partner

Yorkshire Building Society Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday

Bonus

Pension

Healthcare

My Benefits

Job summary

Yorkshire Building Society Group in Leeds is recruiting a Finance Business Partner on a fixed-term 6-month contract. You will partner with business areas to deliver insightful cost analysis, support business case modelling, and challenge commercial decisions to drive performance.

This hybrid role combines a hands-on analytical approach with robust forecasting and process improvements. You’ll influence stakeholders, support pricing and product development, and help deliver value for members.

Qualifications

• Proven experience embedding yourself into a business and influencing stakeholders.
• Accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or equivalent.
• Analytical with experience interrogating and using models to inform decisions.
• Financial Services experience is not mandatory; transferable finance skills are valued.

Responsibilities

• Provide insightful financial analysis of costs and support business case modelling.
• Support and challenge commercial trading activities with robust analysis.
• Embed in business areas and advise on performance and opportunities.
• Drive forecast improvements and identify opportunities to streamline processes.
• Contribute to product changes, pricing and development decisions.
• Develop and maintain efficient financial processes and systems.

Skills

Business partnering

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Job description

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 us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility.

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 to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development.

We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity.

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.

• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).

• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.

• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.

• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Want more information?

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Mike Peel at [e-mail]