Finance Relationship Consultant

An excellent opportunity to join one of the UK's top employers. We're currently recruiting for a Finance Relationship Consultant to join us. In this interesting and varied role will involve owning the relationship with our outsourced providers to manage their performance, identify and resolve blocking issues, and escalating to senior stakeholders when required.

Salary: Up to £45k depending on experience (pro rata), plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Job Type: FTC 6 months
Closing Date: 14/06/2023
Location: Wythall, Midlands


We're currently recruiting for a Finance Relationship Consultant to join our MI, Oversight & Relationship team. The successful candidate will undertake oversight activities of outsourced providers and banks to ensure that the responsibilities of our outsourced arrangements are undertaken in line with contractual obligations. This will involve owning the relationship with our outsourced providers to manage their performance, identify and resolve blocking issues, and escalating to senior stakeholders when required.

Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We're the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 13 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£310 billion of assets under administration. We're a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.

Key Responsibilities
- Ownership of relationship with outsourced providers and banks across multiple companies and locations.
- Proactively engage with colleagues across multiple sites to ensure performance of outsourced providers and banks is maintained, following up on and resolving potential issuers or blockers.
- Influence internal and external stakeholders to ensure prompt resolution of issues and provision of required information.
- Building and leveraging key relationships around the business to ensure that the finance impact any issues / blockers raised in other business areas is understood.
- Representing Finance at key governance meetings
- Management of key governance meetings as well as recording and updating actions required from the meetings.

What We're Looking For
Essential
- Highly organised, with ability to track and deliver on multiple priorities
- Able to communicate confidently, asserting influence at all levels both internally and externally
- Ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders

Desirable
- Experience of dealing with outsourced providers

What We Offer
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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