Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Direct Line Group Full time

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field from data, technology, customer care and auto repair, to HR, finance and procurement, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

We’ve got big dreams of becoming Britain’s best retail general insurer. And we’re almost there. Our talented, reactive, and communicative finance team are on call to help us do it in a sustainable, profitable way. With close connections to our shareholders, and a commitment to integrity that spans the entire business, our people are no strangers to creating - and maintaining - value on an unbelievable scale.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Change Finance Business Partner to join our team In this role, you'll provide financial business partnering and analytical support, using commercial insight, to senior leadership team members, their leadership teams and Change programme leads to support with Change projects. Reporting into the Senior Change Finance Business Partner, you'll work with the VMO and Finance’s Shared Service Team to prioritise analytical resource and engage MI owners for the necessary data to guide and challenge business teams, ensuring decisions are aligned with the Group’s objectives and priorities.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Presenting and reporting the business’ financial performance to a variety of stakeholders including ExCo, Senior Leadership Team, Tribe leads and governance bodies
- Utilising financial, actuarial and other operational reports and data from a variety of sources
- Delivering robust and credible budgets and forecasts that reflect the strategy, risks and opportunities of the Change area. You'll co-ordinate, engage and project manage stakeholders to ensure delivery of budget inputs to agreed timescales. You'll understand risks and opportunities and ensure that variances to budget are understood, communicated and mitigated where possible
- Offer financial partnering and investment appraisal expertise to support Category project teams, particularly with respect to investment opportunities, partnership tenders and cost and benefit tracking. You'll work with the Shared Service Analyst Pool to deliver robust business cases and scenarios, sharing best practice and agreeing priorities
- Identifying and managing the risks involved in running the business in relation to this role, in line with the company risk framework and in conjunction with the Risk function

**What you'll need**:

- Qualified or part qualified accountant (with relevant business experience)
- Risk identification and management experience
- Ability to clearly present and explain financial data to a non-financial audience
- Ability to interpret financial information and act on it
- Strong financial modelling skills coupled with the ability to build robust, flexible and understandable models

**Ways of Working**:
Our mixed model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. How much you'll be in the office depends on your role, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Read our flexible working approach here.

This is a hybrid role that can be based in either London or Leeds, and you'll spend at least 1 day a week in the office.

**Benefits**:
We have a strong focus on developing you and your skill set and work hard to give you the tools to do so. In addition to this we also offer a generous benefits package including; 25 days annual leave, family and work life balance focused options such as: fully paid maternity leave and parental leave, flexible working, insurance savings for you as well as a range of other optional benefits

**Being yourself**:
Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

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