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    Senior Finance Business Partner - Manchester, United Kingdom - First Central Services

    First Central Services
    First Central Services Manchester, United Kingdom

    4 days ago

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    Senior Finance Business Partner – Retail
    We're First Central Insurance & Technology Group (First Central for short), an innovative, market-leading insurance company. Data drives us. It fuels our outstanding distribution, finance, technology and legal services.

    Our underwriting skills are built on data expertise; But, it's the people inside and outside our business that power us.

    They make us stand out, help us succeed.

    Our Finance team need a commercially aware, agile and strategic thinking Senior Finance Business Partner - Retail , who knows a thing or two about the Financial Services and/or Motor Insurance and has experience of brokerage and underwriting accounting.

    You're not afraid to challenge and you'll have Planning, Forecasting, Strategy and Performance Reporting under your belt If it's within a Commercial and Marketing (C&M) setting - all the better As you'll partner with the Retail part of the C&M Leadership Team.

    Being their trusted advisor, you'll help drive value by influencing business decisions and strategy through the provision of key information and robust challenge.

    With a broad skill-set, including stakeholder management at multiple levels, commercial acumen, problem solving, presentational skills and change management, you'll understand KPIs used across insurance.

    If management of expenses, financial modelling and experience of projects are in your toolkit too, then its a match

    Working flexibly, you'll spend most of your time working from home, with a day a week in the office - so ideally you'll live close to Haywards Heath, West Sussex or Salford Quays, Manchester.

    But of course, it's your choice - if the buzz of the office is your thing and you like to be in more - that's good with us too.

    You're a qualified accountant holding ACA, CIMA, ACCA or suitably skilled through your PQE
    You're great at managing stakeholder and have finance business partnering experience at a senior level
    Management of expenses, financial modelling and projects are in your toolkit
    Performance Reporting and Challenge
    Input into the month end accounting processes with a focus on Retail Income and cost entries
    Monthly benefits realisation tracking and ability to influence stakeholders should performance against forecast suggest that corrective actions need to be taken
    Strategic and Commercial Acumen
    Identify and understand business strategy and provide highly relevant insight into business performance
    Actively manage the FCIM expense base to agreed targets, identifying areas where we can make efficiencies or maximise the return on our investments
    Develop a deep understanding and knowledge of broker 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
    Create excellent relationships with key stakeholders across the business and within the pillar, in particular the FD and MD for FCIM
    Partner with the senior leadership teams to deliver accurate financial information to aid decision making to maximise shareholder value and return
    Work cross functionally with business managers to align targets and challenge business performance
    Ensure that Retail and non retail initiatives are embedded within KPI projections and that the resulting forecast is challenging and robust
    Business Initiatives and Tracking
    Drive business improvements and contribute to the success of the business. Ensure the business receives appropriate support from all relevant Finance functions including Financial Operations, Financial Accounting, Tax and Treasury
    Provide business expertise into accounting processes
    Ensure the Retail Finance Team successfully operates the financial controls delegated to it and that the Team continues to operate an appropriately robust control environment
    Be an ambassador for the Finance function
    Three direct reports – Financial Analysts and Modellers
    Ability to deputise for the Retail Finance Director
    Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
    Broker or underwriter insurance accounting experience preferable
    Significant finance business partnering experience at a senior level
    Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate and appropriately challenge senior management
    Simply Health Cash plan. Reclaim the cost of your eye tests, dental appts, physiotherapy and more
    Flexible Bank Holidays
    Eight flexible bank holidays; Electric Car Scheme
    Plug into our Electric Car Scheme for a deal with insurance, road tax and servicing
    Flexible Working
    We're flexible; most roles let you mix office and home working.


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