Post Office Ltd Jobs Vacancies – Finance Business Partner In Birmingham

Overview

Position Title: Finance Business Partner

Company: Post Office Ltd

Location: Birmingham, UK

Job Description

The Post Office has thrived at the heart of high streets and local communities across the UK for over 370 years. As one of the country’s most trusted brands, we take our commitment to providing essential services to customers across the UK very seriously. We’re the UK’s largest retail network, as well as the largest financial services provider in the UK, with over 11,600 branches nationwide – more than all of the UK’s banks and building societies put together.

Responsibilities:

• Source and populate Mails & PUDO strategy financial models with assumptions and variables; provide scenario analysis, with interpretation and insight, to support complex decision making
• Provide challenge to Mails & PUDO teams and business stakeholders to ensure the accuracy of pricing, market assumptions and variables.
• Provide finance expertise when classifying costs and benefits, ensuring their appropriate accounting treatment.
• Provide modelling support for business cases and investment decisions – Review the business cases with product and program leads and challenge assumptions and ensure compliance with governance
• Finance Business Partner – PUDO
• Evaluate and challenge PUDO product team on monthly performance vs budget/forecast
• Partner with PUDO team to provide commercial support and challenge as business grows
• Review, challenge and understand remuneration payable to postmasters for sales made to drive accurate forecasting
• Support PUDO team to generate accurate trading and financial reporting for new business areas
• Review and challenge specific areas of overheads cost base, articulating variances and recommending remedial action for areas of overspend
• Produce insightful month end variance analysis to inform upwards reporting to the Functional leadership team and remote Financial Control team
• Maintain a register of income/cost Risks & Opportunities, highlight through the appropriate channels and ensure alignment in quarterly forecasts

Requirements:

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to effectively summarize and interpret data to senior non-finance business leaders
• Commercial acumen
• Managing complexity, ambiguity and change
• Influencing senior stakeholders and challenging financial decision making
• Collaboration and teamwork to drive reporting and generate results
• Good communication and skills, particularly the ability to communicate complex financial issues simply to non-finance people
• Computer literacy/numeracy with strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills
• Good understanding of finance systems (particularly SAP, BI, Anaplan)