Senior Finance Business Partner

Circa £100,000 (work level 4) plus excellent benefits

Hybrid/Remote – You’ll be able to split your time between home and the Scunthorpe office as well as the Manchester office. Find out more about our hybrid working policy at jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy.

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead a high-performing finance team and act as a strategic advisor to Senior Directors. In this commercially focused role, you’ll drive financial planning, reporting, and decision-making to maximise profitability across our growing B2B division and corporate accounts.

With our major customers you’ll identify opportunities to expand sales, secure large multi-site contracts, and optimise trading, margin, and operating profit. You’ll play a key role in bids, scenario planning, and negotiations, ensuring sustainable, profitable growth.

This is a fast-paced, transformational environment where forward-thinking finance leadership makes a tangible impact. If you have a strong business partnering background and thrive in a commercially driven setting, this could be the right role for you.

What you’ll do

• Lead financial planning, reporting, and performance management, including monthly reporting to senior directors.
• Influence and challenge senior leaders on retail strategies, segmented propositions, and trading plans to drive sales and margin growth.
• Liaise with Coop directors to ensure fair allocation of commercial income within the One Buyer model.
• Lead and support high-impact projects, ensuring commercial rigour in new contracts and business cases.
• Represent B2B externally, securing customer bids and corporate contracts while ensuring financial accountability.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to solve complex business challenges and enhance performance.
• Influence key decisions through analysis, thought leadership, and strategic scenario planning.
• Ensure finance projects are resourced effectively, aligning strategy, priorities, and resource allocation.

This role would suit people who

• Have significant experience at a senior level, leading teams, setting strategic vision, and managing budgets.
• Possess strong commercial acumen, with the ability to interpret financial performance and market dynamics in a fast-paced environment.
• Excel in influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to drive data-led, informed decision-making.
• Thrive in a complex, matrix retail environment, with a business partnering mindset and a strategic, end-to-end P&L approach.
• Demonstrate excellent emotional intelligence, cross-functional collaboration, and communication skills.

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co­op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:

• 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 an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve. 

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.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.

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.