Santander Consumer Finance
Santander Consumer Finance (a standalone part of the Santander Group) is one of the UK’s leading motor finance companies providing finance to a network of dealerships throughout the United Kingdom.
This enables our customers throughout the country to have access to finance for the vehicles they need and desire. We work with over 1600 dealers across the UK and have around 400,000 cars on the road with finance at any one time – that’s a lot of windscreen wipers!
How we do it
We have nearly 800 staff working for us either out of our Head Office in Redhill or as part of our sales teams across the country looking after the network of dealerships.
We have a very busy central operation that speaks with our customers daily throughout the year. Customers contact us with a range of queries; these could include what balance is left on their account, what to do if they’ve missed a payment, even sometimes if they’ve broken down. Our teams are split into specialist areas to deal with these queries effectively.
Other areas such as Risk and Underwriting look at the financial impact of lending money and ensure that the business is making the right decisions at all times.
Where you can make an impact
- Customer Services & Customer Relations
- Financial Support
- Sales and Relationship Management
- Marketing
- New Business
- Underwriting
- Risk Management
- HR, Learning & Development
- Facilities
- Finance
- Legal and Regulatory Control
- IT
Why work for us
- Minimum 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays*
- Discretionary bonus based on personal and company performance
- Ability to buy or sell additional holiday
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Generous company pension and life cover
- Employee assistance programme
- Sharesave scheme
- Discounts on high street brands
- Private medical insurance*
- £500 flexible benefits allowance*
- Car Allowance*
- Refer a friend scheme
- Internal Career Progression
*dependant on role
The place to be yourself – Equal Opportunities
Santander Consumer Finance are an equal opportunities employer. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people. By reflecting and celebrating diversity in our workforce, we’ve created an inclusive culture, which adds real value to our business.
Our Values
We think it’s really important to have specific business values and to live and breathe them across all teams; this is something we pride ourselves on doing very well. Our values – TEAMS – are highlighted below.
T – Think Customer
I care about our customer so I go the extra mile to earn their trust and loyalty
E – Embrace Change
I embrace new challenges and I see new ways of doing things as an opportunity to grow
A – Act Now
I take accountability and manage risks accordingly, always keeping things simple
M – Move Together
I seek opportunities to promote collaboration and work together to achieve common goals
S – Speak Up
I feel free to raise any idea, ask any question or escalate any issues or risks. I help to build an environment of respect and trust. I am comfortable sharing and receiving feedback.
Opportunities to contribute to our positive culture
Collabor8
Collabor8 is a team that ensures everyday inclusion is practised here at SCUK. We want you to feel comfortable and psychologically safe, to bring your true self to work and our people networks are run by colleagues for colleagues. There are 8 different networks to join: Embrace, Enable, Ethnicity @ Work, Families and Carers, Mental Wellbeing, Military Network, Social Mobility and Women in Business.
Attitude Ambassadors
A team of colleagues whose ultimate goal is to encourage the Right Attitude from staff in order to get the Right Outcome for our customers, our dealer partners, our colleagues and our shareholders. We want you to feel comfortable and psychologically safe, to bring your true self to work. Our people networks are run by colleagues for colleagues and they are always busy with projects that can help improve employee satisfaction and wellbeing.
Big Build
The Big Build is an annual project that is our way of giving back to the local community, as well as an opportunity to learn new skills and meet new people. We work with 1 local charity to bring improvement to their services, in 2022 we worked with a local food bank and overhauled their allotment to help them grow more produce for the community.
Green Ambassador
As a Green Ambassador you will join a network of like-minded colleagues to collate and propose initiatives to help improve our environmental impact, inside and outside the office. You will become part of a working group to help plan and deliver these initiatives and encourage and motivate your colleagues to get involved in helping the environment.
