FP&A Business Analyst

1 month ago


Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Howden Group Full time
Job Title: FP&A Business Analyst

About Us:
Howden is a collective – a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 18,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

Job Description:
We are looking for an FP&A Business Analyst to support the Head of FP&A for HUK&I and the IT Finance Business Partner. Your role will involve understanding financial performance, making decisions, forecasting, and resolving queries. You will also contribute to improving reporting, analysis, and planning practices.

Responsibilities:
  • Assist in preparing high-quality, timely Management Accounts packs. This includes providing commentary, analysis, and forecast outlooks for revenue, contractor, and system spend in business divisions.
  • Produce and maintain a simple, informative monthly IT deck with relevant management information for senior management.
  • Support the management accounts team during month end with control account reviews, monthly allocation journals and accounting for any required accruals and prepayments.
  • Maintain detailed analysis on large 3rd party suppliers to provide information to the management accounts team on allocation splits.
  • Support in the review of group-wide IT contracts and the distribution of cost.
  • Analyse large data sets to help further understand the monthly and YTD movements against budget and forecast across the IT cost base.
  • Broaden the existing reporting by crafting new schedules and templates using different metrics as and when necessary.
  • Update any financial models that assist the M&A team in identifying IT cost alignments and cost per user calculations.
  • Aid in forecasting and budgeting activities to ensure flawless execution.
  • Support key core finance activities including month end, planning and financial modelling.

Key Skills and Knowledge Required:
  • Part qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc.).
  • Experience with the preparation of management accounts (Cost centre accounting and knowledge of capital and operational spend).
  • Budgeting and Financial Analysis experience.
  • Strong financial modelling skills, especially Excel (pivot tables, formulas, index match).
  • Experience working with large data sets that require cleansing, mapping, and summarising.
  • Ability to analyse complicated financial submissions and summarise into key points.

What We Offer:
Competitive salary: £40,000 - £55,000 depending on experience, plus benefits package.

About Our Benefits:
A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we're looking for individuals who share the same values as us:
  • Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new.
  • We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges.
  • We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.

Location: Maidstone office, with flexible working arrangements.

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