At a Glance
- Tasks: Support financial strategies and provide insights to drive business performance.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at Post Office, committed to transformation and inclusion.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, bonuses, pension scheme, and extensive development opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working in London or Chesterfield with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance while collaborating with diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Part-qualified in finance with experience in business partnering and analysis.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
As an Assistant Finance Partner - Transformation, you will join us on our journey and undertake a valuable role responsible for supporting the delivery of functional strategies, role modelling Post Office behaviours and demonstrating a Postmaster first mindset. The Assistant Finance Partner – Transformation will play a critical role in providing financial insights and analysis to support decision-making processes across Pillar 1 of the Transformation Portfolio (Strengthening our Commercial & Network Offer). This position involves analysing financial data, preparing reports, and collaborating with various teams (both business areas and finance partners) to drive business performance. The role will support a culture of inclusion, continuous improvement and high performance across financial delivery and decision-making.
What we can do for you:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 2 years), plus bank holidays
- Up to 10% on target bonus opportunity
- Generous pension scheme with minimum 10% employer contribution
- Access to 24/7 digital GP services and our Employee Assistance Programme
- 6 x Life assurance and income protection after 12 months service
- Over 400 online courses, mentoring, apprenticeships, and development programmes
- Access to our benefits platform for exclusive discounts & savings
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Part-qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA/Equivalent Finance Qualification
- Experienced Finance Business Partner/Analyst with proven experience collaborating with peers and senior managers, to contribute to the development of, and deliver, a functional strategy to achieve business objectives.
- Substantial experience in establishing successful, cross-functional, stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting the delivery of projects to achieve key objectives.
- Experience in working with accounting, reporting and forecasting systems (or equivalent) and in a business model that includes ‘Shared Services’ support.
- Experience in building robust business partnering relationships with key stakeholders.
- Clear experience of owning and managing workload and deadlines, with clear communication skills to manage and prioritise workloads and deadlines.
- Experience of using financial analysis to support decision-making and provide assurance.
Skills and Capabilities:
- An enabler who can speak with knowledge and confidence in their subject matter, supporting stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Excellent influencing and communication skills with the ability to utilise a range of techniques to deliver messages effectively, make an impact, and drive a successful outcome.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and leaders to build support for functional plans and activity.
- Acts as an expert advisor, applying advanced knowledge of their own specialism as well as broad knowledge of related areas.
- Strong commercial business acumen and ability to support data-driven business decisions.
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to upholding the values and principles of Post Office.
- A track record of actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion within all areas of responsibility and in particularly in the Finance function.
- Strong Excel modelling skills, ideally with Power BI capability.
- Strong sense of urgency to get things done.
- Holding others accountable and challenging with diplomacy.
- High level of ‘can do’ energy, able to manage within an environment of complexity, ambiguity and change.
- Ability to support cross-functional working.
Assistant Finance Partner in London employer: Post Office
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