Finance Business Partner Stratford-upon-Avon

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NFU Mutual as a Finance Business Partner within the Finance Planning & Analysis department. You will support financial planning, collaborate with senior management, and implement best practices to enhance decision-making. This hybrid role balances homeworking and office work in Stratford-upon-Avon, with opportunities for career growth in a respected company.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Health and wellbeing plan

Employee Volunteering

Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary

Employee discounts on NFU Mutual insurance policies

Qualifications

• Experience in finance business partnering is essential.
• Strong influencing and communication skills required.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning and deliver robust models.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance financial reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Part or fully qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Job description

Salary: Up to £50,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package

• Support the Finance Business Partnering and Planning function.
• Provide accurate management information and data analysis.
• Collaborate with Senior Finance Business Partners and senior management.
• Hybrid role with up to 60% homeworking and 40% in Stratford-upon-Avon.

About the role

NFU Mutual are looking to appoint a Finance Business Partner to join our highly respected Finance Planning & Analysis department within our Finance division on a permanent basis.

Our Finance Business Partners play a crucial role in supporting financial business planning across NFU Mutual. They’re responsible for providing accurate management information (MI) and data analysis to support business performance, budget planning, and decision-making in line with NFU Mutual’s long-term strategic objectives. By building strong relationships, they partner, challenge and recommend practices, processes and technical solutions to ensure effective outcomes that are both compliant and align to best practice.

They support business areas with planning and reforecasting by collaborating with Senior Finance Business Partners and internal senior stakeholders to ensure robust financial plans are delivered, controlled and monitored. Additionally, they assist in the planning, implementation and delivery of financial and operational modelling tools, solutions, analysis, and reporting mechanisms to support effective decision-making and meet stakeholder and division requirements.

This Finance Business Partner position will support General Insurance (GI) Performance and Change, where there is a strong emphasis managing the effects of business change on Financial Planning and Reporting processes and driving cross-divisional collaboration within the organisation.

Further duties include:

• Recommend and implement best practices, processes, and technical solutions.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand business processes and drive business objectives.
• Support financial planning and forecasting by proactively adapting models and processes to business change.
• Assist in developing financial models, reports, and analysis tools.
• Assist in development of improved management information, enhancing insights to enable better decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial planning and analysis.

About you

With existing finance business partnering experience, you have strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills to build trusted relationships and drive strategic decision-making. Effective communication is key, allowing you to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for both financial and non-financial stakeholders, and ensuring stakeholders views are heard and acted upon accordingly. A problem-solving mindset and strong initiative enable you to identify challenges, interpret data, and propose innovative solutions. Attention to detail is critical to ensuring accuracy in financial reporting and analysis. However, you are also adept at dealing with ambiguity, being adaptable in your approach to managing business driven change.

Lastly, a commitment to continuous improvement to help drive efficiencies and enhance financial processes.

Technical skills required:

• Demonstrable experience in financial analysis, planning, forecasting and MI (essential)
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and data manipulation (essential)
• Experience using SQL or a similar data modelling tool (desirable)
• Part or fully qualified Accountant e.g ACCA, CIMA, ACA) (essential)
• Experience working in General Insurance or Financial Services industry (desirable)

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team,you can expecta supportive cultureandanattractive range ofrewards and benefitsincluding:

• Up to £50,000 annual salary (depending on experience)
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteerin the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance coverof 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’reone of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 yearswe’veput our customers at the heart of everything we do.Ourpeopleare just as important to us.

Wepride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.

Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.