Finance Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

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Job reference 322908
Finance Business Partner
Competitive salary, Car allowance of £5,500, full family healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time

This role will cover outer London, Reading, Oxford, Swindon, Southampton & Portsmouth, it supports hybrid working, with a requirement to attend operations sites on an ad-hoc basis.

Explore finance at Royal Mail, where tradition meets innovation. We are a £12.7 billion turnover company with a global reach, where finance professionals can explore unparalleled opportunities. This is a team driving financial growth and shaping the future of a UK icon. Whether it be budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, controls, or company-wide transactions, this is an exceptional environment where you can make your mark.

Are you a qualified accountant with excellent stakeholder management skills? Are you passionate about driving financial improvement and enhancing performance? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Operations Finance Team.

About the Role

Reporting into the Head of Field Ops Finance South, you will deliver a highly professional and thorough framework of performance management, control, and productivity optimisation in your area.

You will also

1. Use financial and business insights to influence and challenge the operations teams to deliver the required in-year performance.
2. Evaluate whether agreed activities have delivered the expected outputs and provide transparency on the outcomes.
3. Drive a performance management culture, undertaking productivity and benchmarking analysis.
4. Provide technical guidance and appropriate consideration of risks and opportunities, taking an independent view of the need to escalate issues.
5. Ensure there are robust control procedures in place.
6. Actively participate in leadership meetings and national forums.

About You
To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

1. Fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) or relevant experience.
2. A strong team focus, able to contribute effectively to a collaborative working environment.
3. Ability to actively listen, analyse and advise in a challenging and supportive way that elicits buy-in.
4. Resilient in challenging up and down in a supportive and collaborative manner.
5. Able to move at pace, to identify and drive creative solutions and remove barriers where necessary.
6. Impartial judgement and relevant information to give advice that can be relied upon.
7. Fully understand the external and internal business drivers to deliver value.

Extra Benefits

1. Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
2. Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills.
3. Supportive and generous company sick pay.
4. Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.

*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face or virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust and our people.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Wednesday 15th April. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.