Head of Finance Business Partnering

Hays PLC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Insurance group in Manchester seeks an Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering. This role involves leading a financial team to provide insights and support across various functions, ensuring robust financial oversight and decision making. Ideal candidates will be fully qualified accountants with extensive experience in business partnering and cost management, ready to thrive in a flexible hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Generous daily rate

Flexible working from home and office

Qualifications

• Extensive business partnering experience in large businesses.
• Strong understanding of corporate functions and costs.
• Experience in investment appraisal and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of FBPs to support internal functions.
• Oversight of budgeting, forecasting, and financial activities.
• Report on financial risks and controls, including risk register.

Skills

Business Partnering

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial Analysis

Cost Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Fully Qualified Accountant

Job description

An Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering role for a market-leading Insurance Group.

Your new company
A market-leading Insurance group in Manchester.

Your new role
Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering role, reporting to the Financial Director. You will lead a team of FBPs to support a range of functions and stakeholders, with key decision support information. You will provide financial support, insight, and oversight over their financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting and planning. You will provide a framework of standardised reporting and cost management analysis. Providing functional analysis to support investments and transformation projects, applying functionally specific expertise in finance, technology and data. You will be responsible for reporting of flash and actual results. You will also be responsible for functional financial risks and controls, including process mapping of planning & forecasting, proactive capturing, escalation and management of the risk register. You will work closely with senior stakeholders and provide additional analysis as required.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a fully qualified accountant, with experience of senior business partnering roles in large and complex businesses. Extensive Business Partnering experience to an Executive level & confident to present analytics and options, robustly. You will have an inquisitive mindset and a strong understanding of corporate functions and costs. You will have extensive cost management experience. Solution-orientated, flexible and pragmatic, you will be able to work under significant pressure and intensity, handling multiple priorities. You will be a true finance leader, with broad commercial finance experience: reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics. A proven team collaboration track record. Experience of investment appraisal, building financial models, to support key decisions. A strategic thinker with the ability to model bottom-up and top-down solutions.

What you'll get in return
A varied and rewarding role, with a high calibre business. A generous daily rate and flexible hybrid working from office and home.

What you need to do now
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