Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

The Finance Business Partner plays a central role in supporting senior management on financial aspects of our capital expenditure and change investment initiatives. Enabling the business to make well-informed, financially robust decisions that deliver on our corporate strategy. Acting as a trusted adviser to stakeholders, the role supports project teams in evaluating the financial feasibility of initiatives, building and reviewing financial assessment models, challenging underlying assumption sets and providing financial monitoring and control across the change portfolio.

Key outcomes of the role include delivering high-quality budgeting, forecasting and monthly reporting, while identifying risks, opportunities and performance issues. The role also strengthens financial control and governance by ensuring funding requests and budgets are well managed, financial impacts are clearly understood and decisions align with corporate priorities and regulatory requirements. Through effective business partnering and continuous improvement, the role supports the assessment of major investments and the management of long-term budgets, helping to ensure they are monitored, controlled and accounted for appropriately in support of our strategic objectives.

The role will report into the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).

Please download a full job description to see a full person specification and role responsibilities.

Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work from home (or a different location)
• work compressed hours
• job share

The Finance and Strategic Sourcing (FSS) Directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer and their leadership team, is made up of three distinct teams:

• Finance
• Commercial Management
• Procurement

Within the Finance team there are multiple disciplines including the core financial control activities for which this role would be responsible. It is an exciting time to join the Finance function as the CFO is looking to make a significant amount of change and enhancement in each of the areas but also looking for synergies and alignment across the Directorate.

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme.