Finance Business Partner

at  Skipton Building Society

Hours:
35 Hours Monday - Friday. Hybrid working with an expectation of 2 days at our Head Office in Skipton.
Closing Date:
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
We have an opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to join our Homes & Money Finance team. In this role you will be uniquely placed to help drive optimised commercial and financial performance; utilising your strong analytical skills to produce meaningful insight, which in turn can then be used to influence key decisions through effective partnering across the organisation.
If you are looking for a role that puts you at the heart of the business, this may be the role for you.
Who Are We?
Not just another building society. Not just another job.
We’re the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we’re a mutual organisation. We don’t have shareholders; we’re owned by our members.
Our colleagues say Skipton’s a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.
Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we’ll help you take the next step towards a better future.
This role sits within the Finance – Homes and Money Team; a team of 9 consisting of Business Partners and Senior Business Analysts, all working in partnership with colleagues across the breadth of the organisation to support the delivery of their respective strategic objectives.
Within this team you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the business, working closely with key stakeholders across a variety of different areas, such as commercial, risk, finance, IT & Change and distribution to name but a few.
The Skipton Group are entering an exciting phase, investing heavily in a variety of purpose driven initiatives, helping more people into their own home, saving for life ahead and supporting their long-term financial wellbeing.
This role plays a key part in this journey, providing support to key stakeholder areas across the business; effectively working as an extension of their respective teams to contribute to the delivery of their strategic objectives. This will be done through the provision of value creating financial, commercial and advisory support with a key focus on building internal and external trends and insights. Within this role, you must have a proven ability to leverage the insight produced, identifying opportunities to utilise this within the respective Homes and Money businesses to drive commercial and financial performance through support and constructive challenge.
What’s In It For You?
Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

What Will You Be Doing?

• Work in partnership to help deliver the strategic objectives of the Home Financing business, the Money business and Group enabling functions.
• Play an active role in providing input to the Corporate Plan and Quarterly Forecasts, working with stakeholders to derive key assumptions, ensuring direction is well thought through and setting the Society up to succeed.
• Closely monitor financial performance, linking this to the commercial activities across the business. Work independently to develop relationships, supporting stakeholders understanding of the performance drivers and highlighting emerging threats and/or opportunities.
• Assist with the development of various strategic and tactical initiatives through the formulation of risk/reward analysis and business case development.
• Utilise your financial expertise to drive commercial performance through accurate insights and advice.
• Provide robust challenge and financial risk assessment to support the strategic decision-making process.

What Do We Need From You?

• Demonstrable experience in finance business partnering.
• A strong understanding of the commercial drivers of a Financial Services business and how these influence financial outcomes.
• A proven track record of providing value creating financial insight with a strong ability to engage, influence and work in partnership with stakeholders at all levels, providing constructive challenge when required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify trends, issues and recommend actions
• The ability to confidently present data in a meaningful and effective way, tailoring the approach to suit the audience.
• Experience of building business cases, presenting and debating investment choices.
• Strong attention to detail and good organisational skills.
• You will have the ability to role model the Society’s behaviours (Be accountable, Be curious, Be collaborative, and be Brave) and demonstrate a standard of skills and behaviours to which the Finance Business Partnering team can aspire.

• Work in partnership to help deliver the strategic objectives of the Home Financing business, the Money business and Group enabling functions.
• Play an active role in providing input to the Corporate Plan and Quarterly Forecasts, working with stakeholders to derive key assumptions, ensuring direction is well thought through and setting the Society up to succeed.
• Closely monitor financial performance, linking this to the commercial activities across the business. Work independently to develop relationships, supporting stakeholders understanding of the performance drivers and highlighting emerging threats and/or opportunities.
• Assist with the development of various strategic and tactical initiatives through the formulation of risk/reward analysis and business case development.
• Utilise your financial expertise to drive commercial performance through accurate insights and advice.
• Provide robust challenge and financial risk assessment to support the strategic decision-making process