Strategic Finance Partner

1 week ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Newcastle Building Society Full time

We are recruiting Strategic Finance Partners to join our Society into key leadership roles. Our Strategic Finance Partners will act (in effect) as Heads of Finance to the wider individual members of the Group Executive team, divisional managing directors and broader senior leaders.

You will provide expert financial support helping to shape and deliver on the functional and divisional/subsidiary strategy. Supporting the Group Finance Leadership Team, the successful candidate will help define and financially model multiple strategic outcomes using both internal and external market wide insight, challenge the current state and financially support the journey to target state.

These brand new positions are an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on our business during a time of significant growth.

About You

You will be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with previous experience of strategic finance business partnering to senior Executive level stakeholder. You will have proven experience establishing effective and credible partnering relationships with multiple business areas up to Board level.

It is crucial that you will have strong communication skills and be able to influence a diverse range of stakeholders to deliver complex information in a compelling way.

With a demonstrated externally focused mindset you will have the opportunity to work in an innovative and creative way to elevate our ambitious strategic goals.

About Us

Our functional vision is built on leadership, partnering for value, building specialised teams and ensuring our technology roadmap is based on future focused systems.

As an inclusive employer and a member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the communities we serve in order to drive the right colleague, customer and business outcomes. We encourage applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences, providing the diversity of thought.

We operate on a hybrid model of working, this sees our colleagues work some days from home and some from our office in Cobalt Business Park, we'd love to talk through how this might work for you. Your work life balance is important to us, if you'd rather spend more time at home that's fine by us, likewise if you prefer to spend a little more time in the office that's fine too. We welcome conversation around when, where and how you work.

This role can also be considered on flexible working arrangements and we encourage those who consider themselves suitable for the role yet would prefer part-time arrangement or compressed hours to get in touch to discuss any requirements/preferences with us.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:


• A 35-hour weekly contract + flexible working options

• 30 days holiday each year plus bank holidays

• Bonus Scheme (paid annually) - On target 15%, up to 22.5% depending on performance

• Car allowance - £4, 944 per annum

• Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors

• Private medical insurance

• Pension scheme (up to 9% employers' contribution)

• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection

• Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including medicash scheme

• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood

• An extra day's holiday for your birthday

• The option to buy and sell holidays

• Two paid volunteering days each year

• A broad range of learning and development opportunities

• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

• Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide

• A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance

• Hybrid working - we welcome any discussions around where, how and when people work including part-time hours.

Upon starting a new role with us, we will ensure you are equipped with the correct tools and technologies to enable you to do your best work within your hybrid arrangement.

Recognising there's no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we're committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at



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