FP&A Business Partner

4 weeks ago

City Of London, United Kingdom KennedyPearce Consulting Full time

KennedyPearce are working with a large Insurance firm based in thew City looking for an FP&A Business Partner to join their team based in the City. This is a hybrid role paying £100,000.

Operating within the International Finance Expense FP&A team the purpose of this role is to provide strategic, forward looking decision support and business partnering to finance and business stakeholders.


Job Purpose

  • This role is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong communication, analytical and data visualization skills to add value and develop a good understanding of the business in finance.
  • This position will have responsibility for the following key tasks:
  • Business partnering and decision support for operating expenses across the firm
  • Responsibility for all forward looking expense focused activities – forecasting, trends, scenario analysis, stress testing and projects;
  • Build and develop relationships and communication within business and finance stakeholders.


Key Responsibilities

  • Business Partnering and Decision Support
  • Business Partnering and Decision Support
  • Carry out fast and accurate analysis of, and commentary on, key drivers and parameters related to operating cost expenditure.
  • Leveraging from monthly expense reports and analytics to create transparency and insight to support management decision making.
  • Provide commercial support to Executive Management, Underwriters and Department Heads
  • To aid commercial resourcing decisions a strong and in-depth control over stakeholders headcount will be required, providing accurate insight into the current and future projected position


Analysis


  • Prepare and present investment appraisals and prioritisation
  • Perform competitor analysis using external data to benchmark and provide insights


Forward Looking Analysis


  • Analysis of expense data and monthly expense reports to identify trends
  • Carry out scenario analysis and stress testing
  • Influence and challenge business decisions and strategy

Projects


  • Support the Head of Expense Management in exploring and introducing data visualization as a way to better communicate trends and insights to stakeholders

Annual Planning & Continual Forecasting


  • Responsibility for analysis to support the annual Corporate budget – understanding strategic plan, supporting stakeholders during planning period, review and challenge of various inputs from stakeholders.
  • Provide input into quarterly International expense forecasting process through engagement with business stakeholders, identification of upcoming issues and/or adjustments and understanding of historical trends.

Relationship Management


  • Focusing predominantly on front office stakeholders, lead the business partnering in relation to expenses and headcount, providing pro-active decision making support
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders within and outside Finance across multiple locations, enabling the department to deliver high quality effective support to the Organisation
  • Through personal interaction with key stakeholders, elicit their requirements of Expense Management team in order to determine value add support and to better anticipate their needs

Other Activities

  • Support the Head of Expense Management on leading key projects within Expense Management.
  • Challenge current processes and approach all tasks with a continuous improvement mindset to ensure processes are as efficient and effective, while delivering high quality products.

Skills and Experience Specification

Essential:


  • CIMA / ACA / ACCA Qualified accountant
  • Strong business partnering, relationship building, communication skills
  • Demonstrable experience working with and supporting business functions and executive management
  • IT literate with advanced Excel skills and strong financial modelling abilities. Experience in Anaplan and BI systems such as PowerBI, Tableau
  • Strong data visualisation skills and experience in utilizing skills to communicate key messages
  • Developed analytical skills including compelling communication of financial information and key metrics/messages relevant to different audiences
  • Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Commercially minded, critical thinker with a keen eye for the detail
  • Professional approach and delivery of timely, high quality work product
  • Energy, enthusiasm, persistence, and adaptability
  • Ability to influence and lead others
  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and ‘end to end’ process thinking
  • Assertive but sensitive to conflicting demands on others.

Desirable:


  • Experience in insurance, including understanding of reinsurance and commission structures and the impacts of this on operating expenses

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