Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago

Southampton, United Kingdom Quilter Full time
Fixed Term Contract Duration - 9 Months

What the Hiring Manager says

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising and becoming even more customer centric. So if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us

The Finance team is a centralised function across Quilter plc and provides finance support across our High Net Worth and Affluent client focused segments. This role is part of the business partnering function within Finance supporting the Affluent business segment.

The Affluent business has £83bn of client assets under administration/ management and comprises Quilter’s Financial Advice, Investment Platform, and Investment Management Businesses, principally through Quilter Financial Planning, Quilter Investment Platform, and Quilter Investors, respectively.

About the Role

Level: 5

Department: Business Partner Team – Affluent Segment

Location: Southampton, England

Contract type: 9 Month Fixed Term Contract, Full-Time - Hybrid

As the Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with the business unit CFO along with key stakeholders, providing high quality analysis, insight, and decision support with the aim of achieving the Group’s and the Business Unit’s objectives and strategy.

Key activities within the Business Partnering Team include:

Reporting and provision of information and analysis delivered to senior stakeholders to challenge and drive decision-making. Providing analysis in support of the commercial proposition of the business, and leading on financial business cases. Delivery of the annual business plan and ongoing forecasting of financial results.

You will be a trusted business advisor and partner, ensuring business knowledge is current and having an awareness of issues and challenges, new initiatives etc. that the Business Unit faces.

You will be responsible for the analysis and interpretation of Financial Performance of the Business Unit.

The Finance BP plays a key role in the annual business planning and forecasting cycles, working closely with functional stakeholders to ensure submissions are robust, timely and in line with Group expectations.

You will perform analytical review on Business Unit results, providing qualitative commentary, understanding variances between actual, forecast and budget performance, you’ll Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from the Business Partner team and undertake major performance interventions if needed and review impacts of performance interventions.

Additionally, you will respond to and proactively seek opportunities for efficiency to drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting, you’ll advocate for change, challenge status quo, and seek improvements. Continuously developing corrective actions to close gaps to targets and work towards optimisation, you will provide insight and explanation to stakeholders within the wider Quilter Group.

About You

Applications from people with diverse backgrounds enables our inclusive organisation to thrive. If you feel you don't match our job description exactly, why not take a chance on yourself and apply? You could be exactly what this role needs.

To be successful in this role, prior Business Partnering experience is a pre-requisite, ideally within financial services and one of the key Affluent business segments.

You will have strong interpersonal and relationship management capability, with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a large and complex set of stakeholders.

Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, you will need to use Excel at an intermediate level as a minimum and be accomplished in presentation skills.

Experience in the identification or risks and opportunities in the P&L as well as experience in driving P&L performance improvements will also be a requirement.

You will be comfortable working at pace with agility and have an analytical mindset, someone who will use data and metrics to drive action. You will be delivery focused, have strong commercial acumen and exhibit credibility, professionalism, and integrity as well as a great negotiator, influencer, and leader.

You will also be someone who acts as a role model for the Quilter values – Pioneering, Dependable and Stronger Together. Someone who works collaboratively, and embraces change and initiates new and better ways of working to deliver positive customer outcomes.

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Core Benefits

Holiday: 26 days

Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in our incentive scheme, based on the company's performance and their contribution to it

Pension Scheme: 10% non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions

Benefit Allowance: A cash benefit allowance is payable in lieu of some of our core benefits.

In addition to our core benefits we offer a range of flexible benefits that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.

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