Finance Business Partner

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Oliver James Full time

As Finance Business Partner you'll embed within the pillar leadership team representing finance and acting as a peer of the members of that team. As a trusted advisor you'll assist the business to drive value by proactively influencing business decisionsand strategy through provision of key information and challenge.

**To be successful in this role, you'll need to**:

- have a broad skill-set, including stakeholder management at multiple levels, commercial acumen, problem solving, presentational skills and change management
- provide financial and strategic support
- hold aa Accountancy qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA

**Strategic and Commercial Acumen**
- Identify and understand business strategy and provide highly relevant insight into business performance
- Develop a deep understanding and knowledge of key business performance (KPI's) drivers and be able to draw conclusions from the suite of KPI's available
- Add value through support and challenge of the business in all commercial decision making, providing financial analysis support as necessary

**Stakeholder Management**
- Create excellent relationships with key stakeholders across the business and within the pillar
- Partner with the senior leadership teams to deliver accurate financial information to aid decision making to maximise shareholder value and return

**Performance Monitoring and Challenge**
- Drive the monitoring of the business performance against the market cycle model on a monthly basis
- Have mastery of the trading KPIs. Understanding all trading KPIs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and extrapolate that performance to the financial impact influencing options to mitigate any shortfall
- Act as a key stakeholder in the decision-making process through the provision of financial information and analysis
- Review monthly reporting of financials and key metrics, including achievement versus budget and forecast highlighting areas of concern
- Provide insightful analysis and value-add variance commentary in relation to both income and expenditure
- Work cross functionally with business managers to align targets and challenge business performance
- Benchmark internal performance; attend external conferences to gain insight to best practice and future state for insurance and finance

**Planning and Forecasting**
- Drive the creation of the annual Budget and quarterly reforecast for the business, gathering relevant data and helping to determine assumption development across the plan period
- Ensure the change initiatives are correctly reflected in the budgets and forecasts
- Ensure the internal IT development for the initiatives is correctly reflected in the budgets and forecasts

**Business Initiatives and Tracking**
- Drive business improvements and contribute to the success of the business. Act as a catalyst in driving forward initiatives critical to delivering the strategy
- Facilitate the development of cost benefit analysis for initiatives and assist in developing presentations to Exco
- Ensure the benefits of initiatives are accurately tracked and presented on a monthly basis and challenge where appropriate

**Link into Finance**
- Ensure the business receives appropriate support from all relevant Finance functions including Treasury and Capacity planning.
- Provide business expertise into accounting processes
- Be an ambassador for the finance function

**Leadership**
- May lead a small team of Junior Business Partners, Finance Modellers or Finance Analysts as appropriate depending upon the size of the Pillar supported

**Job-specific competencies - Experience & knowledge**
- Degree educated
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
- Extensive PQE, ideally within the insurance industry
- Significant Finance Business partnering experience at a senior level

**Competencies**
- Strategic thinker and ability to look at the bigger picture
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate and appropriately challenge senior management
- Excellent communication and presentation skills including verbal, and written
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills;
- Very Commercially aware and focused
- Driven and pro-active, self-starter, and enthusiastic
- Ability to work with ambiguity or to make broad assumptions to make a recommendation
- Team player and ability to forge relationships at all levels within the organisation
- Deadline driven
- Strong analytical skills with an eye on details
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and get involved in the detail if necessary
- Good excel skills

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