Finance Business Partner

Intact Insurance (previously RSA); Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in Liverpool is seeking a Financial Control Business Partner to join their Financial Control Team. The role involves ensuring compliance with financial control standards and collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will possess strong risk and control knowledge, effective communication skills, and experience in financial services. The position offers hybrid work options, a discretionary bonus, and a supportive working environment focused on personal growth and development.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

Up to 11% pension contributions

Hybrid working with flexible hours

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Risk and control expertise is essential.
• Experience in financial or insurance services is beneficial.
• Ability to challenge complex data and controls.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Process and Control Owners for financial control framework.
• Provide advice on new processes and controls.
• Validate control activities with risk-based mindset.
• Drive remediation of control deficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with financial control standards.

Skills

Risk and control knowledge

Qualified accountant or internal/external auditor

Effective communication

Stakeholder engagement

Understanding of financial processes

Data interpretation skills

Job description

Intact Insurance is the new name for RSA in the UK, Ireland, and across Europe. It’s a new name and a new way to do business. Backed by global expertise and a commitment to service that feels different, we’re focused on making insurance simpler, faster, and more responsive.

Shape the future

We’re leading a transformation in insurance helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re stepping into a career where you can make a real difference.

Grow with us

We’re customer-driven, community-focused, and committed to helping our people grow. Whether you’re early in your journey or bringing years of experience, we’ll support you with the tools, flexibility, and opportunities to thrive.

Win as a team

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a passionate candidate, who is looking for career progression, to join our fast-paced UK&I Financial Control Team as a Financial Control Business Partner (FC BP). The UK&I Financial Control Team sits within the Intact Controls Hub, a cross functional team of control-based experts and forms part of a Global Financial Control Team.

Operating within a demanding and changing statutory and regulatory environment, the role requires high professional standards and energy levels. This role is key to the UK&I Financial Control team, supporting compliance with relevant Intact and IFC Group policies, underpinning the Canadian NI52-109 regulatory standard for internal financial controls. Your work must therefore be undertaken with high degrees of professional excellence, diligence, and tenacity.

The exposure this enables you to interact with a wide range of different stakeholders, from across the business, and to quickly develop your knowledge and expertise and your general understanding of the business. The Financial Control Business Partner will report into the Head UK&I Financial Control, working closely with the other FC BPs / Managers, Financial Control Accountants and ITGC Consultants to support an effective and robust Financial Control Framework (FCF).

This role will provide expert knowledge, skills and interventions to influence, challenge and support the achievement of compliance with all relevant requirements of the FCF, in line with NI52-109 across business process areas ensuring a robust framework that can be relied upon by a wide and senior stakeholder base.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Partner with Process and Control Owners to ensure that a robust financial control framework is designed and operated by Line 1 to effectively mitigate material financial reporting risk and fraud and to ensure compliance with NI52-109.
• Provide appropriate challenge and advice in relation to the development of new processes and controls within Line 1, to ensure the relevant risks are effectively mitigated.
• Reporting to local Financial Controllers over the efficacy of the financial control environment and ensuring that any deficiencies are addressed sustainably, suitably and timely.
• Complete control validation activities with a risk based mindset, bringing appropriate challenge. Ensuring validation is completed to a high quality with clear and with well documented conclusions.
• Provide oversight to ensure Line 1 owners maintain process documentation in accordance with the expectations outlined in the FCF.
• Drive and ensure effective and sustainable remediation of process and control deficiencies to ensure material risks are mitigated, including any required actions and compensatory behaviours.
• Undertake risk refreshes and process deep dives to ensure that the FCF is designed effectively and compliantly.
• Ensure that the FCF is proportionate and efficiently/effectively maintained.
• Use key management information, from many sources, to truly understand the financial control and operational risks that can impact upon process efficacy – e.g. incidents, other sources of assurance, projects/change etc.
• Partner with the business in preparation for, and during, change programmes to ensure that the financial control environment is well maintained and not impeded by the projects – in fact, using such opportunities to improve efficiencies and controls robustness.
• Effectively engaging with Risk and Internal Audit functions and external audit team

Your skills and experience:

• Risk and control knowledge, expertise and experience is essential
• Qualified accountant / experienced internal/external auditor (financial/insurance services experience beneficial)
• Effective communicator in written and oral form
• Effective and confident stakeholder engagement
• Solid understanding of financial processes – reporting and feeder/business systems – and ability to challenge performance, control and remediation requirements
• Ability and confidence to interpret, investigate and robustly challenge complex sources of data and information to understand and develop controls, assurance levels and requirements
• Confident ability to provide technical controls guidance to process and control owners
• Ability to confidently challenge, enforcing integrity and robustness in the financial control environment while also balancing this with pragmatism and the ability to apply sound judgement

Why You’ll Love It Here:

Being part of our team means you’ll have the support and freedom to bring your best self to work each day. As a permanent member, here’s what you can look forward to:

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Up to 11% pension contributions
• Hybrid working + flexible hours
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell options
• Health & wellbeing + virtual GP
• Career development and mentoring
• Inclusive culture + employee networks
• Share investment options

Our DEI Commitment:

We celebrate individuality and believe our differences make us stronger. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive.

As an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, we ensure fair consideration for all applicants and offer interviews to all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.

We understand that everyone’s circumstances are different and are happy to explore flexible working options such as reduced hours or job shares to support work–life balance.

If you meet the core criteria but not every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Let’s explore how this role could support your next career step. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know we’re here to support you.

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