Lead Finance Consultant

4 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Phoenix Group Full time

**Job Type**:Permanent

**Location**:This role could be based in either our Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home. You can read more about **Phoenix Flex here**

**Flexible working**:All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

**Closing Date**: 14 th April

**Salary and benefits**:£55,000 - £65,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

**Contact**: Beth Wood

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix group as a Lead Finance Consultant to join our Pension and Savings Commercial and Finance team.

**Who are we?**

We want to be the best place that any of our 7,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

**The role**

We’re currently recruiting for a Lead Finance Consultant to join our Pensions & Savings Commercial & Finance team.

This role will work with the Head of P&S Finance to support the business to make the best financial decisions and help deliver value generating opportunities.

You will also be tasked to:

- Challenge the business assumptions, and targets in budgets and plans to drive business performance in aligned business area.
- Track revenue and cost performance for a business area, and propose options and recommendations for corrective actions to drive business performance.
- Make recommendations to senior business stakeholders on investment decisions to drive business unit performance.
- Lead and take accountability for priority initiatives for business unit to improve strategic value.
- Investigate and identify business value and business performance improvement opportunities to add value to the aligned business area.
- Challenging senior stakeholders on business performance against plan.
- Proposing corrective action to optimise business performance when there may be conflicting agendas.
- Working to deliver value in an environment of increasing cost pressures.
- Works autonomously to drive value generating opportunities in aligned business area.
- Works in partnership with the business area senior leaders to design and deliver business plan.

**What are we looking for?**
- Experience working in the Life & Pensions Industry
- Qualified, either ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Experience in identifying and communicating complex issues to stakeholders

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

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