Finance Business Partner

Benefits of working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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Company Description 

We're Together. For over 50 years, we've helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can't or won't. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book. 

As a Finance Business Partner you will be working in the heart of our busy and growing Sales & Distribution function. The role sits within the Financial Performance team alongside two other business partners but has a dotted line to the Sales & Distribution leadership team where you will be considered a key member. The focus is to provide insight and challenge on their headcount, overhead spend, sales efficiency and help them deliver the growth in the 5 year plan.

As a Finance Business Partner you will: 

• Provide a forward looking business partnering service for the Sales & Distribution Director and their leadership team, on which the role holder is considered a member, challenging them on what how they are managing their business to drive value for money and improved returns.
• Provide oversight and challenge on product pricing for both on and off rate card decisions, reviewing rate adherence by channel to ensure that the overall mix of sales is appropriate.
• Lead the monthly Trading meeting between the CFO and Sales & Distribution Director providing the insight and robust challenge to drive a productive conversation and action orientated outcome to improve sales performance.
• Lead insight on sales efficiency, understand trends and variances by area / channel to drive improvement in the sales function.
• Monthly reporting on costs, including variance analysis and a view on risks and opps to plan to the Sales & Distribution leadership team. Challenge sales activity spend to ensure that it is delivering results.
• Lead the annual Budget process and quarterly reforecasting process for costs and income for the Sales and Distribution business unit.
• Provide any further adhoc insight ad analysis required by the business area or internally from the Director of FP&A and CFO

Essential: 

• Excellent communication, leadership, relationship building and influencing skills at a strategic level with the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences.
• An inquisitive mind that can think laterally about any potential consequences for the company, a self-starting problem solver.
• Strong written and verbal communication that is articulate, and delivered professionally, can negotiate and generate commitment.
• Commercially astute, pragmatic, value based decision maker.
• Experience business partnering senior management or executive level stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office suite skills (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.