Finance Business Partner (12 Month)

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in London seeks a Finance Business Partner for a 12-month role. This position involves providing financial support and insights to senior management, influencing key business decisions to ensure compliance and governance. Candidates should possess a relevant professional finance qualification and strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on delivering business outcomes in an agile environment.

Benefits

Excellent banking benefits

Qualifications

• Professional finance qualification required.
• Experience in financial services and business partnering necessary.
• Proven ability to communicate complex information simply.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and guidance to senior management.
• Influence business decisions with commercial expertise.
• Assist in promoting revenue and cost management.

Skills

Financial services experience

Business partnering experience

Commercial decision making

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

CA, ACA, CIMA, MBA or equivalent

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

• We’re offering this role for a period of 12 months

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