Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Job Title: Junior Finance Cost Business Partner

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

Our Mission

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About this Role

 As an FP&A analyst, you will get a lot of guidance and support from your manager and colleagues but also a lot of freedom to do things your own way. It is an opportunity to put your own stamp on the monthly processes within the UK Cost team, acting as our Tech Junior Business Partner. 

• You don't need previous Tech experience to be successful in this position; we are looking for a great business partner first and foremost.

You will get exposure to lots of senior stakeholders in the business, and you will develop and own the relationships, reporting, budgeting, and preparing outlook for some of the most important parts of our Tech area. With guidance and coaching from your manager, we want you to drive financially sound decision making across the business.

It’s a really varied role where you will be a trusted deputy and develop and own relationships with stakeholders. There will be plenty of opportunity to get involved in finance activities that impact the entire business, as well as supporting project work with exposure to the Head of FP&A, the UK CFO and wider Leadership team.

We expect you to be able to talk to the business and your stakeholders about the impacts of their decisions on their (and the business) financials. You will provide effective support, problem-solving, and expertise in your area.  

 

What you’ll do

• Synthesise and simplify financial and non-financial data

• Develop strong business relationships in the business and Finance to incorporate business context in everything you do

• Partner with key stakeholders in the business to produce monthly outlook and annual budget reports ensuring that any risks or opportunities are effectively communicated and understood

• Ensure all month-end activity is completed in an accurate and timely manner

  • Monthly reporting, variance analysis & commentary, outlooks, journals, etc.

• Streamline monthly processes by finding efficiency gains through easier ways of doing things or automation

• Work in partnership with senior stakeholders and senior FP&A Managers on: 

  • high-impact, cross-departmental projects, ensuring stakeholders are able to understand and consider the financial impacts

  • driving sustainable efficiencies for the business and ensuring any investment is optimised

How you’ll be doing it

• Use all relevant systems and applications competently to obtain the required outputs of the role (e.g. OneStream, Workday, GSuite, Microsoft Office)

• Own and maintain reporting, outlook, and journal files (usually workbooks in Google Sheets)

• Investigate new technologies and tools into your workstreams to drive process improvements

• Develop relationships in the business and leverage business knowledge to reflect business changes in our financial numbers

• Identify and focus on the key risks and opportunities of the business (in particular in your areas)

• Collaborate across Finance teams to deliver business outcomes together, taking into account upstream and downstream impacts

• Effectively prioritise high-value tasks, working autonomously while exercising the judgement to escalate issues to management in a timely manner

The skills and experience you'll need

• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to utilise tools like OneStream and Google Sheets to build repeatable, long-term solutions for monthly BAU processes.

• Advanced Google Sheets/Excel skills. 

• Any coding experience is a plus, but a desire to develop coding skills (leveraging with the help of AI in day-to-day FP&A work) is essential.

• Good communication skills, in particular the ability to quickly build relationships and interact effectively with junior and senior stakeholders (with coaching and support of your manager and colleagues)

• The skills to confidently and accurately talk about your business areas and answer questions / solve problems

• A proactive team player who looks beyond their immediate remit to spot gaps, pitch in, and support colleagues within the Finance team and across the wider business

• Strong analytical skills e.g. overall story, accuracy, spotting errors and asking the right questions

• Continuous improvement and change-agility mindset, with a desire (or interest) to investigate new technologies and tools to achieve this

• Studying towards an Accounting qualification is a plus but not a requirement

• Experience acting as a Finance Business Partner for a Tech department is a bonus, but absolutely not a requirement. We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. 

Our hybrid working model offers you the flexibility to work from our offices and from home.

We're big on collaboration and connection, and so our typical office days are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you. 

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates

• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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