Finance Expense Management Business Partner

We are looking for someone who can engage and manage multiple key priorities and stakeholders to deliver insightful and dynamic expense partnering for the fast-moving business functions. To succeed in this role, you will need to deliver a first-class partnering support for the functions managing the company's expenses, optimising cost efficiency, and providing strategic financial insights to support business decisions. You’ll be responsible for leading 2 direct reports creating an environment where they can thrive individually and collectively. ​ 

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is resilient and has a keen eye for detail to ensure your insight will have a material impact on key business outcomes including growth, profitability and customer servicing. You will need to have the confidence in managing key stakeholders to influence at all levels to drive achievement of both cost management and wider business strategic goals. 

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.  

What will you be doing?  

• Proactive expense partnering to execute expense targets by working closely with functions to understand their expense base, providing guidance on expense management and cost efficiency. 

• Take responsibility for leading interaction and negotiation with the function to ensure budget and forecast targets are hit. 

• Delivery of timely & accurate MI to all stakeholders including senior management, adding value at every opportunity. 

• Confident in own skills and contribution; challenging key stakeholders to support them in achieving their optimal results.  

• Manage the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, ensuring expenses and FTE are accurately projected and managed against budgeted amounts, company policies and external regulations. 

• Support the delivery of monthly reporting to the business functions and key stakeholders, with ability to prioritise ad hoc insight and analysis requests to support dynamic business decision making. 

• Work with the function to agree the cost allocation drivers for each cost centre within their remit, including allocations to channel/ product, admin, acquisition and claims handling, and fixed/ variable. 

• Effectively managing changing priorities in a dynamic environment. Prove resilient in uncertain and difficult situations and adapting approach/plans/style as required. 

What are we looking for? 

• Finance qualified (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) – preferred. 

• Experience in the financial services or insurance industry, ideally within a heavily regulated environment. 

• Relevant experience of business partnering and stakeholder management within finance or a business function; financial acumen.