Royal Mail
Finance Business Partner
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Finance Business Partner
Competitive salary, plus £5,000 car allowance, full family healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
12 Month Fixed Term, Full time
This role will be based at our Farringdon, London office (EC1A 1AA) and will require attendance of 4 days per week
Join the finance team at the heart of one of the UK's most recognised organisations, providing strategic insight and challenge across the Royal Mail Letters Business Unit.
Working closely with senior leaders, you'll drive commercial performance, influence key decisions, and support the transformation of our Letters operation as we build a business fit for the future.
Are you a qualified finance professional with strong commercial acumen and a proven track record of business partnering at a senior level? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
About The Role
Reporting to the Letters Finance Director, you'll provide financial insight, challenge and support across the Letters business, helping to shape strategy, improve profitability, optimise revenue and costs, and drive performance.
You will also:
- Partner with senior leaders to deliver strategic plans, budgets and forecasts.
- Provide insight and challenge across revenue, margin, costs and cash performance.
- Lead planning, forecasting and performance management activities.
- Deliver financial analysis, scenario modelling, and risk and opportunity assessments.
- Support revenue growth, productivity and efficiency initiatives.
- Drive accountability for financial targets and business performance.
- Improve working capital through robust analysis and forecasting.
- Partner with commercial, operational and project teams on key business initiatives.
- Support governance, reporting and financial controls across the business.
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About You
We're looking for a commercially focused finance professional who can combine strong analytical skills with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels.
You will have:
- Significant experience in finance business partnering or commercial finance within a large, complex organisation.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting and financial performance management.
- A track record of improving profitability, revenue performance and working capital.
- Excellent analytical and financial modelling capability.
- Experience supporting business change and transformation programmes.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong systems knowledge (SAP, Anaplan, Power BI or QlikView desirable).
- A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
This is a fantastic opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, shape business performance, and play a key role in the future transformation of Royal Mail's Letters operation.
Extra Benefits
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
- Supportive and generous company sick pay
- Funded Dental – As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance*
- Health Assessment – As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years*
- Benefits Account – You will have access to your personal benefits account on our ‘My Bundle+’ platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
- Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
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Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Closing Date: Tuesday 28th July. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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