Business Process Partner – Finance 
£50,000 to £60,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5) 
Manchester City Centre, in this role you’ll split your time between home and coming into the Manchester office at least twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We’re looking for a Business Process Partner to join the partnering team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day’.

We’ll look to you to be part of a new team in our Optimisation Centre (OC) offering a service to our new SAP S4 HANA Solution to our colleagues, making sure our integrated solutions meet our business requirements. Through service partnering, you’ll link all the relevant areas of the business and look to continuously improve the Businesses SAP End to End processes. If you have an analytical approach and an awareness of end-to-end processes, this is a great opportunity to develop your skills. 

What you’ll do

• Develop and optimise the 3 main end-to-end business processes, supported by business subject matter experts, BPPs, Process Analysts and Technical Specialists
• Partner with senior leaders and their teams to make sure initiatives needing OC support are understood and fed into the triage process to support roadmap planning and prioritisation
• Attend governance forums and planning sessions to understand future direction, potential requirements, and wider sources of change from other programmes
• Partner with teams of business analysts and subject matter specialists to deliver improvements
• Drive knowledge transfer between the OC and the business areas, acting as the point of contact for end users
• Represent the team on large transformation programmes, providing the relevant input to process or solution design decisions and ensuring alignment with the OC roadmap
• Work with monitoring analysts to develop key performance metrics
• Provide advice on specific training needs and the development of training materials
• Identify risks and issues, taking ownership of delivering solutions and mitigation

This role would suit people who have

• A finance background with knowledge and understanding of Finance end-to-end processes
• Great communication skills, with the ability to engage and present to technical and non-technical audiences in a compelling way
• Good influencing skills, with the ability to constructively challenge when necessary
• A talent for building positive relationships with partners at all levels across the business

Why Co-op? 

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Private healthcare 
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.