Debt Finance Business Partner

Department: YUR - 2135 - Retail Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Leicester

Reporting To: Senior Retail Finance Manager

Compensation: £45,000 - £55,000 / year

Description

What We Need from Yü

• Business Partnering responsibility for Debt, working closely with colleagues in debt operations and driving improvements to debt collection metrics.
• Supporting the production of the Retail Business Unit financial and management reporting.
• Producing monthly debt outputs, including information to prepare the bad debt provision in the management accounts.
• Preparation of debt analysis and MI packs including relevant and insightful variance analysis and helping to formulate debt collection strategies.
• Help to drive improvement and innovation of Financial processes related to debt, including identification of automation opportunities.
• Support and identify reporting in newly implemented Debt Case Management system
• Draw relationships between business actions e.g. collections strategy and financial performance, including reconciliation between expectations and actual results.
• Analysis of debt variances to budget, providing commentary to the CFO and Head of Debt.
• Analyse debt trends and customer payment behaviours, providing insights to senior leadership to inform pricing, risk management, and customer relationship management.
• Oversee the management and recovery of customer debt, ensuring effective credit control processes and minimising bad debt exposure across commercial accounts.
• Develop and implement debt collection strategies, balancing regulatory compliance with customer relationship management.
• Collaborate within the organisation and forge strong relationships with key stakeholders across the different functions.
• Work at pace and have the ability to prioritise multiple deadlines.
• Perform ad-hoc tasks and analysis to meet the needs of the business.

About Yü

• Qualified – you will be a recently qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA /ACA) with. Experience of working in a commercial finance function would be an advantage.
• Knowledgeable – you are technically strong with experience of supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts to strict deadlines and analysing complex datasets.
• An expert - energy industry experience is desirable but not essential. Experience of working in Debt would be advantageous.
• Skilled – excellent MS excel and data analysis skills are required
• Ambitious – you don’t just want another job, you want a career
• Team player – you’re happy to help a fellow colleague
• Motivated – you have a can-do attitude and love to learn
• Goal orientated – you proactively love hitting, exceeding and driving your own targets
• Accuracy – High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Communication – confidently and accurately communicate through verbal and written forms
• Friendly – you’re always polite and speak to people with respect

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days
• Day off on your birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual salary review
• Learning and development opportunities
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
• Yü made a difference Awards
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance
• Long service recognition
• Refer a friend payment
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
• New modern facilities
• Death in service and critical illness cover
• Plus, many more