Finance Manager – 3x permanent positions 

£53,000 to £58,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5) 

Manchester City Centre - We’re now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home/remote working and the office. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

We’re looking for 3 Finance Managers to join our Commercial & Customer Finance team where we’ll look to you to lead on complex, high-profile projects linked to our Commercial & Customer Finance strategy. You’ll find ways to optimise our financial performance and return on investment whilst looking at ways to support the business with longer-term forecasting and planning. 

This role is a great opportunity to progress your career, and work closely with our Commercial & Customer Finance Team at an exciting time of growth and change for our Co-op. 

What you’ll do

• Provide clear financial analysis and insights to our stakeholders to support better outcomes and solutions for our business 
• Understand and utilise data to develop analysis and then communicate this back to the business to allow for better decisions and outcomes 
• Manage high-profile and complex projects (such as Commercial Value Delivery and Member Vision), working with senior leaders and the Finance Business Partner, providing financial challenge, and making sure outcomes are delivered
• Get relevant financial and non-financial inputs to model scenarios to make recommendations to optimise business performance
• Support the development of analysts within the team and share best practice across the wider team to ensure consistency
• Find new techniques and methodologies to drive budgeting, forecasting and insights whilst driving continuous improvements

This role would suit people who have

• An accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent
• The ability to prioritise the right tasks in a complex, changing environment
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to present to financial and non-financial partners, challenging and influencing where necessary
• Support communication with the leadership teams to make sure they can make well informed decisions that improve business performance and helping to tell the story of performance
• A growth and analytical mindset, with a drive to look for continuous improvements with the ability to confidently deal with ambiguity 

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).

• Private healthcare
• 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
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

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.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.