Finance Business Partner – Group Costs and Investments

JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner – Group Costs and Investments

SALARY: as per range

LOCATION: Bristol, Harbourside

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

This is a rare opportunity for a finance business partner to work at the centre of two high‑profile Business & Commercial Banking platforms that are critical to the Commercial strategy. You’ll support Business Transaction Banking and Lending & Working Capital, shaping financial outcomes across services that enable over 1 million businesses to operate, grow and invest.

With a c.£150m Investment and BAU cost base, you’ll influence how funding is spent, how investment benefits are measured, and how both platforms drive efficiency through technology, workforce planning and new ways of working. It’s a visible, strategic role offering real influence, scale and exposure to major transformation!

What you’ll be doing:

• Helping the Platforms to plan successfully and contributing to the setting of direction and goals.

• Sharing Management information with senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow-up actions are clear.

• Supporting and challenging the business, creating well-understood forecasts along with a summary of financial risks and opportunities.

• Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor.

• Playing an active role in engaging with the Centre of Excellence, enhancing the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs.

• Embedding the Group’s culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.

• Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a talented team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for:

• At least three years of prior Finance Business Partnering experience, influencing and driving improvement in Business results.

• Proven ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams.

• Proficient communication skills:

  • Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment and BAU costs and the resulting financial benefits)

  • Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information)

• Experience in supporting Change / Transformation including the impact of different technologies on financial statements would be valuable.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.