Finance Business Partner

5 months ago


Poole, United Kingdom Lush Full time

**Description**:
You'll partner with the People Team to prioritize people over policies, driving business growth through nurturing our diverse workforce, informed decision-making, and clear communication. Your role involves analyzing and sharing data effectively, influencing positive change, and shaping our global compensation strategy. Join us if you're a detail-oriented finance professional passionate about optimizing employee rewards and supporting global teams. Let's shape the future of our organization together.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**

Finance Business Partnering:

- Costing up potential investments in pay, bonus, and new benefits
- Provide oversight and tracking on all global investments in pay & benefits
- Track and report on pay & headcount by business area vs. budget and escalate any issues to the Global Finance Director
- Actively working with Global People & Payroll teams to coordinate best practice and strategy including analysing and reporting all people-related KPI’s and pay and benefits data globally
- Responsible for preparing the monthly People Global Pack report, alongside the People Team
- Provide financial insight and business updates to the People Teams globally
- Supporting with projects relating to process improvement and efficiencies for our people teams globally
- Support People Teams globally in managing their team budgets, and preparing them for the annual review

Pay & Benefits:

- Actively working with the People Business Partners, Finance Business Partners, and Commercial Leads on all compensation-related issues
- Collaborate with the Head of Talent & Mobility on analysing external cash compensation and total rewards data, including market trends
- Work with the Employee Benefit Trust to analyse and report on the employee voice
- Work with the People Team, Employee Benefit Trust, and Internal Communications team to communicate people, pay, and benefit updates globally
- Work alongside the People Team to research, develop, implement, and administer pay & benefits packages to motivate and reward employees
- Develop, administer, and coordinate support team bonus schemes across the business globally
- Provide a list of scheme participants and the achieved percentage for each scheme and country to payroll upon payout
- Provide feedback and record individual performance bonuses submitted by the Commercial Leads and Finance Business Partners

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Skills and Experience**
- Strong analytical skills to assess and evaluate data, and make informed recommendations
- Experience of using multiple systems to analyse and model financial, demographic, and other data to draw conclusions and make recommendations
- Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams with excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage key relationships and influence outcomes
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex financial information in a clear and accessible manner, supporting effective decision-making. With a high level of integrity and confidentiality when handling sensitive employee information
- Demonstrates an interest in and commitment to understanding and relating to Lush's core brand values
- Experience in identifying and implementing process improvements, particularly related to pay and people
- Ability to manage and support projects, including those focused on process efficiency and people-related initiatives
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and reporting
- Experience in conducting market research to analyze external data
- Previous experience in global pay and benefits and bonus scheme administration would be beneficial

**Benefits**:
**Employee perks**:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- 6 months’ full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver)
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Bonus scheme
- Day off for weekday birthdays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets
- Employee assistance programme
- Financial childcare support on return to work
- We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
- Support groups, film nights, yoga, meditation sessions and much more
- qualifying period & hours required

**About Lush**:
Since establishing in 1995 in Poole, Dorset, Lush has been driven by innovation and its ethics.

Creators of pioneering beauty products such as the fizzing bath bomb, shower jellies and solid shampoo bars, we place emphasis on fresh ingredients like organic fruits and vegetables, fight against animal testing and combat over-packaging by developing products that can be sold ‘naked’ to the customer without any packaging.

We currently operate in 52 countries with 928 global shops. Through our separate business



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