Senior Finance Business Partner
£90,000 - £95,000 plus excellent benefits including car or car allowance of £6,000, up to 10% employer pension contribution and private healthcare for you and your family (Work Level 4)  

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

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team and provide strategic guidance to senior directors at Co-op. In this role, you’ll bring your expertise to drive both strategic and operational financial planning, reporting, and decision-making. 

You’ll play a key role in supporting our finance colleagues and leaders, helping shape and execute financial strategies across large-scale projects and operating model initiatives. Working closely with leadership, you’ll help deliver impactful outcomes for our colleagues, members, and customers.

What you’ll do

• Lead the coordination of the financial planning cycle, reporting, and performance management activities for the business area.
• Influence and challenge directors and senior teams to ensure the effective execution of market-leading propositions and marketing activities.
• Lead and support high-impact projects spanning multiple business areas.
• Apply strategic thinking and business knowledge to solve complex problems, driving actionable insights to enhance performance.
• Influence key decisions by providing analysis, offering new perspectives, and recommending strategic solutions.
• Facilitate forward-looking discussions to support long-term scenario planning.
• Advise on business planning assumptions, headwinds, and opportunities, driving solutions and accelerating benefit realisation.
• Build effective business partnering relationships, ensure alignment of strategy, priorities, and resources, and mentor a team of senior finance professionals.

This role would suit people who have

• Previous experience working in the customer-facing landscape
• A relevant financial qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent), with significant experience as a finance business partner supporting at a senior level
• The ability to build strong relationships with colleagues at executive level, challenging and influencing where necessary
• Strong leadership skills and evidence of setting the strategic vision for teams
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-financial audiences in a compelling way
• Strong organisational, prioritisation, core finance and analytical skills, with an understanding of planning and forecasting processes

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).

• A company car or £6,000 car allowance
• 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.