Finance Business Partner

Starr Underwriting; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Finance Business Partner in London, where you will support business growth by managing profit and loss for assigned stakeholders. Engage with teams to ensure alignment with financial objectives, providing insights and leading budgeting processes. This role is ideal for qualified accountants with experience in commercial finance within the insurance sector, offering a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience as a commercial Finance Business Partner within Insurance.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional Finance leadership and commercial insight across business areas.
• Lead yearly budgeting process with aligned business units.
• Assist with forecasting to reflect strategy, risks, and opportunities.

Skills

Commercial Insight

Financial Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

Finance Business Partner

Department: FP&A & Accounts

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Shaan Sri-Pathmanathan

Description

This role offers a rare but fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced Finance function supporting the business during a continued period of PE-backed growth.

This is a newly created role and will see you act as the key Finance contact for assigned stakeholders, helping them manage the entire profit and loss (P&L) for their area of business. This will include analysing monthly and quarterly actuals, as well as budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc project work.

About the role

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.

Amongst other things, you'll:

• Provide functional Finance leadership and commercial insight across business areas.
• Provide financial and commercial support and analysis to SLT members and their leadership team.
• Present and report the business’ financial performance in a clear and understandable format to ExCo / SLT member(s).
• Understand risks and opportunities and ensure that variances to budget are understood, communicated, and reduced - challenging and supporting the business in equal measure.
• Lead yearly budgeting process with aligned business units.
• Assist with forecasting to reflect the strategy, risks, and opportunities of the business. Coordinate, engage, and project-manage stakeholders to ensure delivery of inputs to agreed timescales.
• Obtain, interpret, and utilise effectively, financial and operational reports from a variety of sources.
• Undertake ad hoc project work, financial modelling, and tracking of strategic initiatives.

About you

We are seeking experienced candidates, ideally qualified Accountants currently working as a commercial Finance Business Partner within Insurance.

We’re looking for driven, self-starters with a strong work ethic, who enjoy working in a collaborative, team-first environment.

If this sounds exciting, register your interest and start the conversation, or visit our website below for more information!

Core Values

Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and make a positive difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers, and carriers.

Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the status quo and constantly challenge ourselves and others to improve.

Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make work enjoyable at CFC, welcome diverse viewpoints, and treat everyone with respect.