Finance Business Partner – Membership & Marketing

Job Description

Job title: Finance Business Partner – Membership & Marketing

Company: Co-op

Job description: Job Description:

Finance Business Partner – Membership and Marketing

£60,000 to £65,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)

Manchester City Centre. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team supporting membership and marketing. We’ll look to you to provide insight into business drivers, using influence and challenge along with recommendations to optimise financial performance. You’ll build strong relationships with internal partners, focusing on Co-op membership and ultimately being future focused on how we can make a difference for our colleagues and customers.

What you’ll do

• Be the key business partner for all membership and marketing activity, focusing on making the right investments to drive customer loyalty and business performance
• Make recommendations to solve business problems through clarity of insight, offering a commercial and strategic perspective, considering internal or external factors
• Provide problem solving support, with a focus on the control and delivery of agreed outcomes
• Support longer term scenario planning and resolution of business problems
• Manage a team of 2 analysts, whilst developing and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues at all levels
• Use commercial reviews to hold business areas accountable for financial performance, working closely with them to co-create financial improvement plans
• Support financial control with insight, analysis, and in-depth knowledge of business areas

This role would suit people who have

• A recognised finance qualification
• Business partner experience
• The ability to build strong relationships with internal partners at all levels
• Experience in supporting or making commercial judgements and improving performance
• The ability to talk big picture and go into fine detail

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).

• 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
• Private healthcare for you
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

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

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

Expected salary: £60000 – 65000 per year

Location: United Kingdom

Job date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:17:06 GMT

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