Finance Business Partner

Direct Line Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider seeks a Finance Business Partner to deliver insights and support across various business areas. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong commercial skills, capable of working in a hybrid model, engaging with multiple teams to enhance financial performance and strategic alignment.

Benefits

50% off home, motor, and pet insurance

Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

EV car scheme for electric vehicle leasing

Generous holidays

Buy as you earn share scheme

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Experience in insurance or financial services is a plus.
• Experience in commercial or strategy-focused areas is also welcomed.
• Ability to interpret financial reports and communicate findings effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership and insight across business areas.
• Deliver budgets and forecasts reflecting strategy, risks, and opportunities.
• Present and report financial performance to senior leadership.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Data presentation

Communication skills

Education

Qualified or part-qualified accountant

Job description

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At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field from data, technology, customer care and auto repair, to HR, finance and procurement , we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

We’ve got big dreams of becoming Britain’s best retail general insurer. Our talented, reactive, and communicative finance team are on call to help us do it in a sustainable, profitable way. With close connections to our shareholders, and a commitment to integrity that spans the entire business, our people are no strangers to creating - and maintaining - value on an unbelievable scale.

What we're looking for:

We're looking for a qualified or part-qualified accountant to provide analytical support to our leadership teams and join us as a Finance Business Partner.

If you're from an insurance or financial services environment, that's great, but we're also keen to hear from you if you have experience in other more commercial or strategy focussed areas too.

You'll have good commercial acumen, present data effectively, and be able to use your communication skills to tell a complicated story in a way that will be understood by a variety of audiences.

This is a hybrid role for someone a commutable distance away from either our Leeds or London office.

Who you'll be working with:

As part of our FP&A and Business Partnering team, you'll work with Finance’s Shared Service Team and a diverse range of Agile teams across DLG such as Finance, Category, Pricing, Corporate Actuarial and Marketing. You will engage with MI owners to create or obtain the necessary information to guide and challenge business teams, ensuring alignment of their decision making with the Group’s financial objectives, long-term value maximisation and strategic priorities.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide functional finance leadership and commercial insight across business areas.
• Provide financial and commercial support and analysis to SLT members and their leadership Team. Understand how KPIs and other trends are affecting financial performance.
• Present and report the business’ financial performance in a clear and understandable format to ExCo / SLT member(s), Category / Tribe leads and other governance bodies as required.
• Obtain, interpret and utilise effectively financial, actuarial and other operational reports and data from a variety of sources, including Finance’s Shared Services Team.
• Deliver credible budgets and forecasts that reflect the strategy, risks and opportunities of the business. Co-ordinate, engage and project manage stakeholders to ensure deliver of budget inputs to agreed timescales. Understand risks and opportunities and ensure that variances to budget are understood, communicated and reduced - challenging and supporting the business in equal measure.
• Offer financial partnering and investment appraisal expertise to support Category project teams regarding investment opportunities, partnership tenders and cost and benefit tracking. Work with the Shared Service Analyst Pool to deliver business cases and scenarios, sharing best practice and agreeing priorities following the Group’s existing work stack.
• Ensure the Shared Service area develops sound models for reporting, commercial modelling, budgeting and forecasting and scenario analysis.

Ways of Working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.
Read our flexible working approach

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
• Generous holidays
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback
• Plus many more

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.