Finance Business Partner

NatWest Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide financial support and challenge within the business. This role involves liaising with finance teams, influencing key decisions, and ensuring compliance with governance. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in financial services. The salary ranges from £57,640 to £86,460, along with excellent banking benefits, and offers a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Excellent banking benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services and business partnering required.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly.
• Comfortable operating in a matrix structure.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and guidance.
• Influence business decisions with financial expertise.
• Assist in revenue, cost, and capital management.

Skills

Commercial decision making

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Time management

Education

CA, ACA, CIMA, MBA or equivalent qualification

Job description

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
• We're offering a salary from £57,640 to £86,460 alongside our excellent banking benefits

What you'll do

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll be supporting the relationship between Finance and your business area. You'll be working with business intelligence and financial control teams to prioritise workloads and assist with deep dive, modelling and spotlight work to both support and challenge the business in equal measure.

Day-to-day, you'll be:

• Assisting with the promotion of revenue, cost and capital management leadership across the allocated business
• 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

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:

• Good storytelling and narrative behind the financials
• Effective analytical and time management skills
• A flexible approach
• The ability to work in an agile manner to deliver business outcomes
• Strong stakeholder and people management skills

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 14/10/2025

Ways of Working: Hybrid