? Job reference 320854 Finance Director Property Competitive salary, plus car allowance, healthcare, 35% annual bonus potential, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays Permanent, Full time Royal Mail Farringdon This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend our Farringdon office in London, with flexibility required, in line with business needs About the role At Royal Mail we've served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale.
We're currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, and to get there, we need exceptionally talented, resilient, and driven people.
Are you are interested in Delivering a highly profession and thorough framework of performance management and control for Central Functions, as well as influencing and driving future performance?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
We need someone who has the energy, expertise, and ambition to be part of Royal Mail's change story!
Interested?
More details and how to apply can be found below.
Reporting into the Property, Tech and Central Functions Finance Director, you will act as Property Finance Director.
This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend our Farringdon office in London, with flexibility required, in line with business needs.
About the role • Membership of leadership teams within Property and Finance: • Directing and influencing strategic direction of functions • Providing financial oversight and guidance in relation to finance and operational matters • Instill a performance management culture including driving the performance debate in review meetings and ensuring that risks, issues and opportunities are identified early, and interventions/ action plans agreed • Ensure that cost efficiency and a cost-conscious culture is a key focus • Setting of annual budgets ensuring targets are stretching and in line with overall requirements of the Group • Monitoring and reporting on business performance.
Using financial and business insight to influence, challenge and partner the business to: • Agree activities that will deliver the required in year performance standard • Influence delivery of the agreed activities to the required time, cost and standard, or develop and deploy corrective actions with leadership teams • Evaluate whether agreed activities have delivered the expected outputs and provide transparency on performance • Drive continuous cost control to ensure accountability, strategic spend, value for money especially around external suppliers.
• Work with Group Property and Leadership team to determine, drive and implement the future vision /strategy for Property within an appropriate and efficient cost envelope • Membership of all relevant investment boards, providing critical review of investment decisions and holding projects to account on performance against • Working with key stakeholders to ensure there are robust control procedures in place • Seek continuous process improvements and promote best practice • Line management to own team, providing direction and guidance and developing individuals and also to wider finance community About You To truly excel in this role, you'll possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below: • An excellent communicator who can guide colleagues and staff with no financial background in their understanding of financial management • Proven track record of challenging and influencing across a wide range of key stakeholders • Strong analytical and decision-making skills • Ability to work effectively across highly complex organisation structures and frameworks and to provide realistic solutions • Ability to deliver results through leading, engaging and coaching people • Ability to juggle multiple priorities across a wide span and spectrum of accountabilities • Ability to create effective cross functional relationships, work collaboratively and supportively with colleagues • Experience in supporting development of medium term and short-term business plans • Significant experience of budget and target management • Experience of working within a large a complex matrix organisation and manage multiple, and sometimes conflicting, priorities • Ability to work at pace, to proactively identify and drive creative solutions • Being a critical friend and not afraid of having difficult conversations when needed • Degree educated and professional financial qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) Extra Benefits • RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer • Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave • Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay • Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life.
From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice.
It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees Next Steps The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment.
We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process.
Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant.
We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/ Closing Date: 18th November 2024 .
Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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