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Due to the growth of Hargreaves Lansdown's Finance function, we have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join our growing Commercial Finance team. The successful candidate will partner with our Product Director as an invaluable addition to the Leadership Team for HL's largest product line by revenue (£500m).
What you'll be doing
As Finance Business Partner (FBP), you will be responsible for providing commercial finance expertise to Business Line Leadership, delivering financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting & planning, as well as creating insightful analysis. The successful candidate will work closely with Financial Control colleagues to maintain and improve a strong risk and control environment.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Nurturing relationships with key stakeholders across the business to develop an in depth understanding of the Business Line proposition, its clients, and their journeys.
- Helping key stakeholders and leadership understand the revenue and cost opportunities and how product and journey design impacts financial performance.
- Building understanding to co-create our three-year plan (3YP) and budgets, whilst ensuring risks and opportunities are considered, identified and registered, with remediation plans put into place and delivered.
- Maintaining investment analysis; including propositional development, pricing, incentives, OD investment.
- Income Statement (c.£500m revenue) & Balance Sheet accountability
- Leading on cost leadership, and the pursuit of efficiency. Drive profitable growth, and positive operating leverage.
- Collaborating with colleagues in the Data team to prepare Financial Management Information, combining financial and non-financial data.
- Taking ownership of forecasting, ensuring projections have strong commercial rationale, and are activity driven wherever possible.
- Developing understanding of new business sales pipeline, conversion, revenue, and direct costs.
- Working closely with the business and broader Finance team, to create accurate profitability analysis.
- Supporting and where appropriate, leading on competitor analysis to inform propositional investment opportunities, activity, and cost benchmarking.
- Contributing a balanced voice of the client, colleague, and shareholder
- Working across Financial Control and Commercial Finance to ensure best practice ways of working.
- Ensuring alignment and compliance with the Consumer Duty framework and our Assessment of Value obligations.
About you
- A qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA) with current technical knowledge and post qualification experience.
- Ability to understand the strategic business goals of an organisation, including revenue streams and pricing, with the ability to 'look beyond the numbers' and understand the wider business context.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
- Analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights and interpret the impact of both financial and non-financial commercial decisions.
- Attention to detail to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Ability to work flexibly with conflicting demands to ensure work is scheduled to meet changing priorities and deadlines.
- Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities, with advanced Excel skills.
- Initiative-taking, results-oriented, and commercial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast paced, high growth environment.
Interview process
The selection process will incorporate competency-based questions including an assessment of your technical knowledge and transferable skills. For candidates who progress to the next stage, there will be a presentation to prepare and deliver.
Working Schedule
This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office around twice a week. We are also happy to consider part time or condensed hours for the successful candidate.
Why us?
Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
- Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
*dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
