Network Rail Careers – Senior Finance Business

About the job

Location

Milton Keynes, GB

Department Name

Finance

About Network Rail

At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK everyday. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain and operate our network.

We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.

Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know traditional working patterns don’t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. When you’re part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions.

Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our .

Network Rail positively embraces flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life.

We’re an inclusive employer of choice, employer, encourage people to work flexibly and we welcome applications from everyone ( ) . Please visit should you require accessibility support to apply.

Our finance function is key to our success. Our diverse and high-achieving team is responsible for ensuring we secure appropriate funding and get the best possible value for the money we spend, driving forward our continuing mission to transform the UK’s rail network into a world-class infrastructure.

Brief Description

Network Rail are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner based out of the Milton Keynes office within the Group Finance Analysis and Reporting Team to provide analytical support and insight into National and Regional scorecard performance trends.

About The Role (External)

Day in the life of

• Involved in the production of scorecard outputs, supported by analysis of data to derive additional insights.
• Consulting with regions and central functions to understand key performance drivers and future trends.
• Delivering clear and concise communications on current performance trends to a range of senior stakeholders.
• Embed appropriate governance for all our processes.
• Involvement in CP7 planning from a scorecard perspective.
• Deliver appropriate assurance activities.
• Maintaining and building our network of contacts, systems and data sources, ensuring they are robust and accurate.
• Identify potential improvements to improve accuracy, save time, save money or enable better decision making.

A note from the Hiring Manager

We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner based out of the Milton Keynes office within the Group Finance Analysis and Reporting Team to provide analytical support and insight into National and Regional scorecard performance trends.

Key Skills Required

• Professional behaviours, with excellent customer service and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proactive and inquisitive individual, a self-starter who thinks logically.
• Clear and concise report writing for senior management, including our Executive Leadership Team.
• Challenge discussions and decision making to ensure we get the most accurate insights for our customers.
• Flexible approach to workload and priorities, things can change quickly.
• Accuracy and attention to detail, including ‘brand awareness’.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel is preferred, but not essential – should be highly numerate and able to ‘read’ data and graphs for trend analysis and insight gathering.

Other Key Points

• The role will enable you to interact with a range of senior stakeholders across the business and externally, providing some great exposure and networking opportunities.
• Our output may drive key business decisions, therefore communication and accuracy are of paramount importance when we deliver our outputs.
• We should always acknowledge our collective requirement to spend public funds efficiently and effectively.

For a full list of the Key accountabilities and essential / desirable criteria, please refer to the Network Rail job description attached .

How To Apply (External)

Job Title – Senior Finance Business Partner – permanent role

Banding/Salary – Band 3C – (£53,202 – £59,853)

Location – Milton Keynes – another location/s may be considered on a case-by-case basis

Closing date – 20 Oct 2023 – late applications will not be accepted

Interview date – Week commencing 31 Oct 2023 (or sooner)

Network Rail will interview any and all disabled applicants who meet the crucial (Essential) criteria and will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us if you have any questions or to request a reasonable adjustment.

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