Assistant Finance Business Partner | S2 | CFO | Milton Keynes

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process.

Join our community.

We’re recruiting for a methodical Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic team. The role will be supporting the lead Finance Business Partner within our Economic Crime FBP Team, helping to gather data insights to the business unit, you’ll be partnering with the wider Finance Business Partner team to help us achieve our collective goals.

As our Assistant Finance Business Partner, you’ll be liaising with the wider business to generate a full and accurate budgetary position and providing value insight analysis. You’ll be the critical link for key stakeholders in understanding finance and cost process, ensuring compliance, and delivering the best business results.

The difference you’ll make.

• Liaising between the business and Cost Reporting and Planning, Accounting, Transformation teams and line manager to ensure all budget requirements are captured and challenges are relayed, all the information is captured within the Financial Systems as required

• Creating monthly commentary for the End-of-Month financial meetings, feeding the management dashboard and regulatory reporting

• Updating the Financial Systems, as required, so that the monthly estimates, forecasts, year-end closing estimate and next year’s budget reflects the current business operations

• Ensuring that the information available to the team management enables them to offer insight

• Ensuring all finance and purchasing controls are fully documented and operated correctly

• Assisting the business with understanding the processes and controls surrounding cost management, and report compliance levels

What you’ll bring.

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant eg. ACA/ACCA/CIMA/equivalent (full study support will be provided)

• Good excel skills and the ability to analyse data and identify underlying drivers of costs

It would also be nice for you to have.

• Experience of dealing with projects and handling multiple requests from different stakeholders

• Being able to work on your own initiative within defined guidelines to deliver results

• Ability to work accuracy and efficiently

• Ability to show the initiative and seek out alternate solutions

What else you need to know.

This is a full-time permanent position offering flexible working between home and the office, where you will be required to work from office 2-3 days a week.

Everyday Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus

• Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including : Bupa medical insurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments

• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover

• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more

• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans

• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships

What to do next.

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.