Business Manager (CFO Office)

Royal London has an exciting opportunity for a Business Manager to join our team at Alderley Park on a permanent basis. Reporting to both the Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) and the Group Finance Director (GFD), you\’ll play a key role in supporting, guiding, and informing the GCFO, GFD and Senior Finance Leadership Team. You will also assume responsibilities for assisting the GCFO and GFD, within a fast‑paced, dynamic, and changing environment. You will be responsible for maximising the effectiveness of the GCFO and GFD whilst capitalising on inherent development opportunities from working alongside the Senior Finance Leadership Team (SFLT). You will be an advocate for improvement and efficiency across Finance.

Responsibilities

• Build effective and productive working relationships with Senior Stakeholders across Group Finance and the wider Group.
• Build and maintain an effective network of internal and external contacts to provide regular input to the Finance leadership agenda and help shape and promote their priorities and agenda.
• Support the GCFO & GFD in updating regulatory documentation such as handover certificates and reasonable steps evidencing.
• Ensure the Finance team understand progress against Finance\’s goals, the Group\’s Purpose and strategy and matters of interest around the business through effective planning and delivery of Connect with Finance events and other comms as needed.
• Support the delivery of a robust communications and engagement agenda for Group Finance.
• Draft communications to Finance (or wider as required) with the support of the Internal Communications team as needed.
• Work with the Internal Communications team to agree an engagement agenda for Group Finance and ensure this is effectively executed.
• Work with CRF to make improvements and respond to concerns with GCFO & SFLT engagement with Finance.
• Understand the key themes of the Our Voice survey, summarise for the SFLT, and track collective SFLT actions.

Qualifications & Skills

• Excellent communication, negotiating, influencing, and leadership skills.
• Energetic and enthusiastic about continually looking at ways to improve processes.
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders.
• Decisiveness, confidence, and resilience.
• Strong commercial awareness.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Proven track record of delivery with excellent planning, coordination, and organisational skills.

Benefits

• We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long‑term savings and asset management products and services.
• Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
• You can see all our benefits here – Our Benefits Inclusion, diversity and belonging.
• We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.