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    Finance Business Partner Projects - London, United Kingdom - Howden Group Holdings

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    From day one, our mission has been to create an independent business with a unique culture - one that is controlled by the people who work for it.

    Whatever your priorities - work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you'll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.
    Finance Business Partner

    Act as the direct finance partner to Howden Tiger (including its international network excluding TigerRisk) to help continually improve financial performance and decision-making through reporting, analysis and planning.

    Act as the interface between Business Units and Management accounts to resolve queries in relation to management accounts.

    Ensure appropriate business reporting functions are set up allowing each Business Unit to measure their Key Financial Performance Indicators and satisfy their statutory and regulatory reporting responsibilities with regards to financial data.

    Ensure that all responsibilities are completed in accordance with Company policies.

    Develop strong working relationships with business leaders and an understanding of the business to provide tailored finance support to each team.

    Provide high quality and timely advice, information, analysis, reporting and interpretation to support effective decision making and performance management.

    Understand the drivers of business performance, identifying trends, areas of opportunity or remedial action and influence the implementation of initiatives to address these.

    Production of finance packs with commentary.
    Challenge the business divisions relating to observed weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
    Lead business units in the setting of annual budgets and mid-year forecasts.
    Prepare financial models for company acquisitions and team lifts.
    Support the improvement of management reporting and analysis.
    Help to maintain and improve financial reporting IT systems.

    Understand the current business processes and assist in the development of systems and procedures to ensure strong financial controls are run across relevant business units within Howden UK.

    Support senior managers to deliver group objectives.
    Maintain effective relationships across the Howden Group's finance function.
    Compliance
    Ensure compliance with all applicable Company policies and procedures.

    To obtain appropriate approvals to ensure compliance with Company policy, procedures and regulatory rules and requirements relating to data protection, money laundering, etc.

    To consider compliance with FCA requirements at all times.
    Ensure that your personal performance and HR records are up to date and meet the Company's requirements.
    Deliver a personal performance that contributes towards the Company achieving its objectives
    Act in utmost good faith, in accordance with the relevant Company and/or Group policies and never risk the Company's reputation
    Develop others where you are responsible for their performance
    Ability to react positively to change
    Experience of supporting senior business managers, including reporting and explaining financial results and information
    Provision of support to one or more business units, e.g. commercial analysis, budgets & forecasts etc.
    Project and task management experience
    Implementation and improvement of processes and controls
    Provision of support to one or more business units in a large/complex organization (including commercial analysis, budgets & forecasts etc.)
    ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified with min. We've travelled far since opening our first office in 1994. Back then we were local experts - based in London, with direct access to the world's biggest insurance market. We're still locals, and we still deliver the right advice and the right insurance to our clients. But now, we're local all over the world.

    With 15,000 global colleagues and a partner network spanning more than 100 territories, we are the largest independent insurance broker in the world.

    Our focus on being a people-first business has always been at the very heart of Howden.

    Our vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture; one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it.

    Our flat structure and entrepreneurial spirit help us attract the best people and empower them to be the best version of themselves.

    Diversity & Inclusion

    At Howden we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

    Permanent
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