Strategic Finance Partner — Drive Efficiency & Impact

Network Rail; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Rail’s Glasgow-based finance team leads a critical mission to deliver safe, reliable railway expenditure. As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll develop business cases, forecast efficiency, and ensure governance and benefits realization across the organisation.

This role focuses on identifying opportunities, challenging senior stakeholders, and delivering real impact through strong analytical and strategic thinking.

Qualifications

• Experience in finance business partnering and business case development.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Track record of delivering efficiencies or performance improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with a strategic mindset.

Responsibilities

• Support business case development and efficiency forecasting from concept through to delivery.
• Assist with business case governance, standards and assurance.
• Identify efficiency and cost improvement opportunities, supported by robust analysis.
• Support cross‑industry funding opportunities.
• Work with Technical Authority and Route Services to capture, quantify and agree all benefits.
• Support CP7 efficiency reporting requirements, including progress, forecasts, risks and opportunities.
• Undertake cross‑regional benchmarking and share learning from other regions.
• Support Senior Finance Business Partners with analysis and stakeholder challenge.
• Track benefits to ensure they are realised and sustained.

Skills

Finance business partnering

Stakeholder influence

Efficiency/Performance improvement

Analytical thinking

Continuous improvement

Self-motivation

Education

Degree-level education

Professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW in progress or membership)

Tools

Oracle-based systems

Job description

Network Rail’s Glasgow-based finance team leads a critical mission to deliver safe, reliable railway expenditure. As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll develop business cases, forecast efficiency, and ensure governance and benefits realization across the organisation.

This role focuses on identifying opportunities, challenging senior stakeholders, and delivering real impact through strong analytical and strategic thinking.