About the Role You’ll be a member of the finance team, providing high-quality commercial finance business partnering across major infrastructure programmes. Initially focused on the TransPennine Route Upgrade (TRU), with an increasing remit across WCMLN and MRU, you’ll support a more integrated approach across TransPennine Express and Northern by strengthening financial control, improving consistency and providing clear insight to programme and operator partners. What You’ll Do You’ll play a lead role in co-ordinating financial planning for operator support costs associated with major infrastructure programmes. Working across organisational boundaries, you’ll develop and embed consistent processes, reporting standards, controls and ways of working across TransPennine Express and Northern. You’ll provide robust commercial and financial challenge to programme plans, forecasts, investment proposals and business cases. You’ll identify, assess and mitigate financial risks, ensuring material issues have clear ownership and are escalated and reported effectively. You’ll also lead on developing cost efficiency plans, support the identification of funding opportunities and wider commercial benefits, working with delivery teams to translate opportunities into measurable outcomes. A key part of the role will be managing the interfaces, dependencies and risks between programme-funded operator support costs and operator net subsidy requirements. You’ll build trusted relationships with senior partners across TransPennine Express, Northern, RNP/DFTO, TRU Enterprise Finance and the wider infrastructure portfolio, while strengthening knowledge-sharing and resilience across the finance teams. About the Person You’ll be a proactive and collaborative business partner who can influence constructively, challenge with credibility and work effectively through ambiguity. You’ll combine strong commercial judgement with excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, translating complex financial information into clear recommendations for senior decision-makers. Essential You’ll be a qualified accountant, or have equivalent relevant experience, with a strong track record in supporting major change projects/programmes, business partnering, financial planning and analysis. You’ll demonstrate strong financial modelling and analytical capability, sound commercial judgement and a detailed understanding of financial control, planning, forecasting and performance reporting. You’ll be well organised and resilient, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities in a complex, evolving programme environment. A continuous-improvement mindset and the confidence to work across multiple organisations and stakeholder groups will be essential. Desirable Experience of supporting complex programmes, preparing or challenging business cases, and working across multiple organisations or stakeholder groups would be advantageous. Experience of rail infrastructure change programmes, rolling stock fleet roll out programmes, major infrastructure or construction programmes, and programme-funded operator support costs would also be useful for this role. If that sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you, please click the link to apply, complete an application form and upload a copy of your CV and a Covering Letter. What we offer Excellent career prospects. A personal development plan. Structured training and development Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis. Generous annual leave entitlement. Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependents*. Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years’ service* for you and your dependents*. Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home. Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions. Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits. Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme*. *Terms and conditions apply Goings places has never felt better! At TransPennine Express, it’s our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it’s ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we’d love to have you onboard. Together, we’re going places We’re TransPennine Express and we’re going places. Whether that’s helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We’re looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.
Senior Finance Business Partner in Manchester employer: TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express is an exceptional employer located in the vibrant city of Manchester, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises employee development and well-being. With structured training programmes, generous annual leave, and unique benefits like free rail travel, we empower our team members to thrive both personally and professionally in a dynamic environment.
