Cost Business Partner

4 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Gallagher Full time

About Us:
Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.

Overview:
We are seeking a Cost Accountant to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and analyzing all operating costs for the division, ensuring robust cost management and governance.

Your main objective will be to provide timely and accurate cost reporting to senior stakeholders, including the divisional CFO and MD's. This will involve conducting detailed analysis of costs & dentifying areas for improvement.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist the Senior Finance Business Partner in the oversight of operating expenditure incurred within the Pen trading division
- Perform meaningful analysis and reporting of all OPEX and compensation costs, providing detailed feedback to key divisional stakeholders on their spend/costs
- Liaise with wider Finance teams to understand and challenge central cost allocations
- Work with key stakeholders to measure the productivity of each business area within the division
- Perform regular review and challenge of cost allocation methodology to ensure appropriate
- Provide support and reporting as part of the division’s M&A tracking
- Provide support as required for the annual budgeting process
- Perform cost forecasting working with key stakeholders
- Assistance and support in response to external and internal audit requests
- Liaising with Finance Business Partners and other departments out with Management Accounts team to provide support for queries as they arise
- Build relationships within the Pen division, and across other teams
- Ensure SOX requirements are fully met

Qualifications:

- Qualifed Accountant (ACCA/CA/CIMA or equivalent)
- Experience gained within a SOX and regulatory/control based environment highly desirable.
- US GAAP experience - highly desiable.
- Ability to priority manage and adhere to deadlines
- Strong analysis skills
- Strong organisational/influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to change
- Eligible to work in the UK

Additional Information:
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the **minimum core benefits** you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ 5 more days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

**Other benefits include**:

- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more

**We value inclusion and diversity**

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief,

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