Just
Job title:
Senior Finance Business Partner
Company
Just
Job description
At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to work closely with business areas across the group to provide financial analysis and commercial support to contribute to the Just’s business success. This will be achieved by driving efficiencies, producing decision-supporting analysis, investment appraisal and financial planning.
You will maintain strong stakeholder relationships with colleagues over a range of levels of seniority, from Executive leaders to cost centre managers. This involves being a ‘critical friend’ by supporting understanding of, and challenging, the impacts of business decisions on financial outcomes.
The Senior Finance Business Partner will ensure effective cost management processes and controls are maintained and improved upon where required.
Responsibilities
Partner with the business: Maintain strong relationships including active communication and visibility with the business. Ensure you are approachable to support them to consider financial consequences to their key decisions. Help the business work through key resourcing challenges and prioritisation with a cost/value lens.
Produce and contribute to regular MI and reporting: Ensure that MI answers the ‘so what’ and that variances are clearly explained. Proactively seek action from MI where there are undesirable variances and contribute. Ensure that processes by which cost information hits the ledger and MI is produced are robust and timely and improved where necessary to increase efficiency.
Ad hoc analysis: Conduct independent deep dive/reviews of Functional cost base to provide insight to business areas. Support project business cases and benefits appraisal.
Forecasting: Maintain regularly updated, rolling forecasts and deliver key inputs into the annual 5 year Plan process including projections of the staff cost base, key strategic development costs and 3rd party costs.
Cost management: Uphold the Finance approval process for new job requisitions raised. Challenge resource mix to ensure we are getting value for money and support the Procurement team in ensuring key third party relationships are appropriately scrutinised from both a commercial and risk management perspective.
Strong business knowledge: Maintain strong business understanding including key product lines, key strategic priorities and markets in which the business operates
Review allocations: Periodically review the allocations basis for the cost areas for which you are the lead including how this reflects changes in business structure and attribution to products and business lines. Understand how allocations flow through into key IFRS and SII financial performance metrics.
Skills & Experience
Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Experience of cost accounting in a multi divisional and multi departmental organisation.
Experience of budgeting, forecasting and management accounting best practice.
Experience of working in an Insurance or other Financial Services environment is preferred
Experience of a Life Insurance environment would be advantageous.
Working knowledge of IFRS 17 accounting principles would be advantageous
Experience of project/investment appraisal and resourcing/cost management for projects would be advantageous
Knowledge of Great Plains would be an advantage but not essential
Strong analytical skills.
Ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of raw data into relevant and presentable formats. This will require very effective IT skills – Microsoft Office packages including Word, advanced Excel (including pivot tables, look ups), presentational packages (PowerPoint, PDF).
Ability to present financial information in a clear and coherent manner suitable for presenting to senior management.
Organisation and Planning skills (including ability to prioritise / multi task).
Decision making and problem solving skills – (including evaluation skills)
Able to demonstrate good attention to detail
Self-starter and motivated
Ability to question and improve process
Ability to learn quickly and apply initiative
Company Benefits
A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
About Us
We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly.
How people work, save, and plan for the future is all changing. A new generation of retirees needs a new kind of retirement company. A company who will look for new ways of doing things – and will always put the customer first.
That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement. And with you on our team, we’re going to make sure they get it.
We’ve built our sustainability strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have selected goals where we believe we can make the most difference. By aligning our activity with these global goals, we can make sure we play our part in addressing the wider issues facing the planet and leave a positive legacy to the world. You can read more about our sustainability strategy .
Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for us. Having a diverse, talented workforce with colleagues of different backgrounds, world views and experiences is the right thing to do. It’s also the most effective way to succeed, innovate and better serve our customers now and in the future. We are committed to our targets on gender and ethnicity and run a number of successful mentoring and sponsorship programmes for our colleagues from diverse backgrounds. We have multiple active employee network groups which champion issues including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and neurodiversity. You can read more about our DE&I strategy and commitments .
What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly – each other. We look forward to welcoming you to the team soon.
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:56:31 GMT
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