Job Reference: 322491
Finance Business Partner - Technology Projects
Location: London, United Kingdom
Client: Royal Mail
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 7
Posted: 13.02.2025
Expiry Date: 30.03.2025
Job Description:
Competitive salary, plus £5,500 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Permanent, Full time.
You will be expected to attend the office 2/3 days per week.
Explore finance at Royal Mail, where tradition meets innovation. We are a £12.7 billion turnover company with a global reach, where finance professionals can explore unparalleled opportunities. This is a team driving financial growth and shaping the future of a UK icon.
About the Role:
Reporting to the Finance Director for Technology, Property & Central Functions, you will work closely with IT Managers and Directors to drive performance, provide strategic insights, and influence decisions that create long-term value.
You will also:
1. Partner with Project and Programme Managers to prepare accurate project actuals and forecasts.
2. Maintain precise financial records and ledgers for all projects.
3. Oversee financial business cases in line with Royal Mail standards, ensuring clear visibility of costs, benefits, and value drivers.
4. Deliver insightful, KPI-driven reports to Project Managers, Technology Leadership, and Transformation teams, highlighting variances and driving performance.
5. Ensure correct accounting treatment for project spend, capitalisation, and adherence to accounting standards.
6. Drive financial performance by managing risks and opportunities across projects and the IT portfolio, implementing mitigation strategies as needed.
7. Promote continuous improvement and best practices in financial and business controls.
8. Provide support across the wider Technology, Property & Central Functions Finance team when required.
About You:
• Qualified accountant with experience in project partnerships.
• Strong communicator, able to simplify financial concepts for non-financial stakeholders.
• Skilled in handling complex data from multiple systems and sources.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate credibly at senior levels.
• Experienced in driving strategic financial planning discussions.
• Deep understanding of performance management and control processes.
• Confident presenter, capable of delivering clear insights while maintaining context.
• Willing to challenge existing processes and drive continuous improvement.
Extra Benefits:
• Family friendly support: enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers: more than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays and household bills (Available only to perm employees).
• Supportive and generous company sick pay.
• Your Wellbeing: access to services and tools for physical and mental health, financial and social support and advice.
Next Steps:
The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face or virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Royal Mail is proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
Closing Date: Sunday 16th February. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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