Senior Finance Business Partner - Business Banking

Business Unit: Group Finance

Salary range: £70,400 - £88,000 per annum

Location: UK Hybrid - Occasional travel to local hub

Contract type: Permanent

Our Team

Business Banking has a clear growth objective, including scaling our deposit raising ambitions within the Nationwide group to the right customers in the right markets whilst delivering on customer experience.

The Business Banking Finance Business Partnering team is key to supporting this ambition by delivering financial management services to senior stakeholders within the organisation, influencing performance and outcomes to drive the right commercial decisions.

The role will involve regular engagement across our business and with senior stakeholders to provide expert knowledge and support, understanding in depth the portfolio, products, and processes, and applying this across a variety of initiatives and requests. If you're ready to apply your commercial and analytical skills across a variety of deposit related opportunities, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Our team are responsible for supporting the Business Bank Commercial teams in analysing and navigating financial performance. We help drive value creation by providing insight and influence on priority business issues.

In this role, there are opportunities to work closely with the Strategy team in evaluating and presenting alternative proposals to support our growth ambitions to senior stakeholders. Making a tangible impact on divisional financial strategy will be medium to longer term focus.

What you'll be doing

• Communicating financial results to senior business customers, adding insight through identification and communication of key issues in business performance, drawing on standard and ad hoc analysis.
• Proactively partnering the business to identify alternative actions to address business under-performance/ stretch performance, providing recommendations based upon financial and commercial insight.
• Proactively partnering the business to identify and evaluate long term strategic options to improve performance, providing an external competitor and industry trends perspective on key decisions.
• Influencing business decision making as a senior member of the management team. Providing were relevant a view outside of your finance specialism.
• Be part of cross functional teams recommending and implementing strategic initiatives and driving change. Recommendations may include changes to systems, process, and structures based on the analytical findings presented to business.
• Taking the lead on supporting regulatory activities such as stress testing and recovery planning, as well as other ad hoc queries. This will include agreement on high level financial forecast assumption, business trends and value drivers with the Business area.
• Role will always be required to provide ongoing support within a changing financial environment.
• Establishing, maintaining, and developing a network of internal stakeholders across the Business Banking team providing healthy challenge and collaboration.
• Mentoring and developing Finance Business Partnering team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

We need you to have

• Proven experience in building strong working relationships with a wide-ranging level of stakeholders, across a number of disciplines.
• Track record of influencing at various levels, including senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and presentational skills to senior stakeholders with key analysis and supporting narrative to inform and influence is essential.
• Strong financial modelling skills (excel based) and ability to critically appraise outputs.
• Knowledgeable in financial factors and external market trends that may impact Business Bank performance (both risks and opportunities).
• A natural curiosity and drive to know more. Also be hardworking, with a real eye for detail.
• A strong control mindset when developing processes and procedures.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early. Please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.

Now the legal bit

Although some of our roles allow you to be based anywhere in the UK, we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks -we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.

Please note: If we receive a high volume of eligible applications, we may need to prioritise candidates whose skills and experience most closely align with the role, while still ensuring fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team