Senior Finance Manager – Central Costs

£75,000 – £85,000 plus excellent benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, and company car or £6,000 car allowance (Work Level 4)

Manchester - 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 https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy 

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join our Financial Planning and Analysis team and take the reins on Co-op’s Corporate costs. Your mission? To help us spend wisely, make smarter decisions, and set us up for future success.

In this role, you’ll be guiding and challenging the corporate and Food support functions, ensuring we're not just tracking numbers, but making them work for us. You’ll be the one holding the business to account while keeping our forecasting and reporting top-notch. Alongside this, you’ll collaborate with the wider finance team, bringing your commercial smarts and sharp business analysis to the table. 

If you’ve got solid FP&A skills, a knack for leading teams, and experience partnering with senior leaders, this is your chance to grow your career and make a real impact at Co-op.

What you’ll do

• Co-ordinate and own the group central costs budget across our corporate and Food support centre functions
• Manage the central costs rolling forecast cycle, making sure that performance outcomes are understood, and interventions are made where required
• Co-ordinate and own monthly reviews of performance, making sure that optimisation initiatives are tracked, and delivery is understood
• Develop insightful reporting to enable business teams to better manage and understand spend
• Lead efforts to prioritise and align relevant investments with corporate strategic goals
• Provide support for board, CEO, and CFO requests in relation to ad-hoc analysis and projects, preparing high-quality outputs
• Drive change to improve and simplify our existing finance processes
• Be responsible for developing a central costs team with strong commercial insight and a deep business analysis skillset to provide effective challenge and guidance across Co-op

This role would suit people who have

• FP&A experience with a relevant financial qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent)
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to build relationships with senior leaders
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to manage priorities and “tell the story” with financial data
• Strong analytical ability to spot trends and connect data with broader business insights
• Leadership skills to develop and grow the team, fostering collaboration and delivering results through others

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

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.