Main Responsibility

As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will join our Route Services finance team and become an integral member of our business senior leadership team. You will proactively identify, plan, and meet the finance needs of the business, working closely with other members of the wider finance team. Your role will involve positively challenging senior leaders, budgets, and business activities to ensure the best outcomes are delivered.

We are currently looking to fill the following vacancies:

1. Strategic Planning and Enabled Efficiency: Support Route Services in developing financially robust, long-term business plans, and embed associated efficiencies and benefits across the business.
2. Strategic Programme Finance & Commercial Support: Business partner our major change programmes, providing dedicated finance support, commercial analysis, and advice on key decisions.
3. FP&A: Lead process improvement workstreams, challenge efficiencies, and drive consistency across our function while liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
4. Supply Chain Operations (SCO): Provide opex finance support to our SCO function, focusing on off-charging SCO operational services and route-focused reporting.
5. Engineering Services: Drive business performance by providing opex reporting, headcount forecasting, and analysis of key cost drivers.
6. IT & Telecoms Services: Support the integration of IT and Telecoms, consolidate opex and headcount reporting, and contribute to improvement workstreams.
7. RS HQ: Business partner our central teams (Finance, HR, Safety, and Assurance) with opex accounting, ad hoc analysis, workstream improvement, and standardisation activities.

The Ideal Candidate

Meet the essential criteria? Apply today to see what we can do for you!

• Membership (or working towards membership) of a relevant accounting body (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW) or equivalent experience.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills at all levels.
• Successful relevant experience in managing business risks, financial control, and forward planning.
• Demonstrable record of budget management, governance, and interpreting commercial and financial landscapes.
• Strong evaluation and decision-making skills in a complex financial environment.
• Excellent technical financial and accounting knowledge applicable in a commercial environment.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience in finance.

It would be great but not essential if you have; full membership of relevant post graduate professional body (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW), experience of Oracle based systems, experience within multiple finance disciplines, knowledge and technical expertise of Government accounting and relevant financial governance, and understanding of project management principles and experience of managing complex projects to successful conclusion.

If you are passionate about finance, enjoy driving business performance, and want to be part of a dynamic team that values its people, apply today to join our organisation. Together, we can make a difference!

Note: This job advertisement is intended to provide a general overview of the position and its requirements. The specific responsibilities and duties may vary depending on the selected candidate and the needs of the organization.

Package Description

Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered.

These positions are based in: The Quadrant Milton Keynes

Closing date: 13 July 2023

Band & Salary: 3C £55,596 - £62,546

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your finance expertise to drive business performance and make a meaningful impact? Join our organisation, where people truly matter and contribute to the lives of millions.

We are proud to have been voted one of the Best Places to work in the UK in 2021, and we offer a range of excellent benefits to our employees.

• Embrace flexible working patterns, including the option to work from home and compressed hours.

• Enjoy a comprehensive range of pension schemes to secure your financial future.
• Take advantage of our healthcare scheme and ensure your well-being.
• Save on transportation costs with rail and underground season ticket subsidies up to 75%.
• Enjoy generous annual leave of 28 days, plus bank holidays and volunteering days.
• Support our Armed Forces community with 2 weeks paid reserve leave.
• Participate in our Cycle to Work Scheme and stay active.
• Access gyms across the UK with our GymPass.
• Explore exclusive discounts on food, technology, and experience days through our 'My Benefits' portal.

About the Company

We’re an organisation where people matter. We matter to millions. 

Our role is to run a safe, reliable and efficient railway, serving customers and communities. We exist to get people and goods where they need to be and to support our country’s economic prosperity. Safety is our number one priority.  

We're undertaking an ambitious change. Our vision is Putting Passengers First - becoming a company that is on the side of passengers and freight users. 

As one of the UK’s leading equal opportunities employers, our values and the way we behave is important to us and we have created an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution. We have seven employee networks that provide fantastic support, opportunities and development for applicants from all backgrounds. Click here for more information 

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