Senior Finance Business Partner – Commercial

£90,000 to £100,000 plus excellent benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, and a £6,000 car allowance (Work Level 4)

Manchester City Centre (Hybrid)

18 month fixed-term contract

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team in Manchester. In this role, you’ll provide strategic partnership to senior leaders in our Commercial team, using your expertise to help shape plans and guide effective decision-making. You’ll play a key role in supporting our finance colleagues and leaders, helping to steer major projects and bring our financial strategies to life. 

If you’ve got the skills, knowledge, and experience we’re looking for, this is a great opportunity to influence our commercial finance decision-making. This is a hybrid role, and you’ll split your time between home and the office in a way that suits you (find out more about our hybrid working policy at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of Finance Business Partners and Business Analysts to solve complex problems and provide insights to improve performance
• Lead the coordination of our financial planning cycle, reporting, and performance management activities
• Influence key decisions by providing analysis, offering new perspectives, and recommending solutions
• Facilitate forward-looking discussions to support long-term scenario planning
• Advise on business planning assumptions, headwinds, and opportunities
• Build effective business partnering relationships, making sure strategies, priorities, and resources align

This role would suit people who have

• Significant experience as a Senior Finance Business Partner
• A relevant financial qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent)
• Previous experience working in a customer-facing environment
• Strong leadership skills and evidence 
• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people, of all levels of seniority, inclusively
• Good communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information to a non-financial audience

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, 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). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• A company car or £6,000 car allowance
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line 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 an inclusive work environment

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 more value for our member-owners every day. 

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 at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion here

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.