Finance Business Partner - Commercial Finance

Secure Trust Bank; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks a Business Partner for Commercial Finance. The role involves budgeting, forecasting, and providing analytical insights to improve financial outcomes. Candidates should have significant experience in financial services, strong reporting skills, and accounting qualifications like ACA, ACCA, or CIMA. Embrace diversity and expand your career in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Business Partnering in Financial Services.
• Ability to understand business drivers behind financial performance.
• Expertise in communicating analytical conclusions through reporting.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting processes for Commercial Finance.
• Drive analysis and insight reporting to improve business outcomes.
• Support financial evaluations for projects at the Investment Committee.

Skills

Business Partnering in Financial Services

Analytical Reporting

Advanced Excel Skills

TM1 Knowledge

Power BI Knowledge

SQL Knowledge

Education

Accounting Qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

Job description

About The Role

You will business partner for Commercial Finance. The role is responsible for supporting the provision of insightful analysis, accurate forecasting and business case financial appraisal for Commercial Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Group's budgeting and forecasting processes for Commercial Finance, ensuring cross division and function alignment with strategic goals and efficient allocation of resources.
• Responsible for all non-customer related management information to the Commercial Finance Divisional MD and management team.
• Drive the analysis and insight reporting to improve business and financial outcomes, ensuring that the business receives appropriate support and challenge; and provide oversight over the financial results.
• Support in the evaluation of the financial outcomes (both pre and post) for projects presented at the Investment Committee.
• Act as contacts for external audit queries and issues.

What you will bring

• Significant experience in Business Partnering in Financial Services (preferably with working capital finance - Invoice Discounting/Factoring experience).
• Ability to develop the understanding of the business drivers behind financial performance.
• Expertise in communicating analytical conclusions through effective reporting and analysis.
• Advanced Excel Skills, preferable to have TM1, Power BI and SQL knowledge.
• Accounting qualification: ACA, ACCA or CIMA

Everyone is different. Everyone is valued

As part of our vision to become the most trusted specialist lender in the UK, we\'ve been helping customers and businesses fulfil their ambitions since 1952. In that time, we\'ve learned that we\'re more than the sum of our parts. We\'re a strong Group because of our people and our strengths; specialist, expert, ambitious and also diverse. All of our people are different and this is something we celebrate.

Every one of our employees brings unique talent, ability and perspective to their role.

That\'s why Secure Trust Bank Group nurtures differences. We understand that we perform better because we\'re not cast from the same mould. We actively embrace and support diversity, work with leading industry bodies and promote initiatives that reinforce our philosophy of giving you the freedom to be who you are.

We\'re an award-winning bank providing savings accounts and lending services to over one million customers. We\'re Secure Trust Bank Group. We embrace difference.

About The Company

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, but we can\'t achieve our customer focused strategy without the right people in our team.

At Secure Trust Bank, we know that people are our biggest investment, which is why a career with us is not just a job. It\'s the chance to be part of something bigger, to add real value to the Bank and help us constantly improve, in order to achieve our ambition of becoming the best bank in Britain. We believe in giving our staff autonomy, with initiative and exceptional performance recognised through a variety of individual and team awards and incentives. All our employees have a tangible impact on the Group\'s core values, and we are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, proactive and enjoy working in a fast paced environment. So join us as we strive to Grow, Sustain and Love the way we work.