Senior Finance Business Partner Stratford-upon-Avon

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead strategic cost optimisation efforts. This pivotal role offers the chance to influence financial planning and decision-making while collaborating with senior leadership. You'll drive initiatives to enhance cost visibility and accountability, ensuring that financial insights are integral to planning and forecasting. Join a supportive and inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives, where your contributions will shape the long-term financial strategy of a trusted organisation.

Benefits

Annual bonus up to 25%

Contributory pension scheme up to 20%

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Monthly gym membership contribution

Health and wellbeing plan

Employee Volunteering day

Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme

Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary

Employee discounts on insurance policies

Qualifications

• Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities to influence decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail for financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic cost optimisation and long-term financial planning.
• Deliver actionable insights through clear, data-driven analysis.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Financial Analysis

Cost Optimisation

Data-Driven Insights

Analytical Skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

• Spearhead financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes on cost optimisation, allocations and long-term projections
• Opportunity to work in a business facing dynamic role
• Hybrid role to work flexibility around business demands, with on average 40-50% of your time based at head office in Stratford-upon-Avon.

About the role

NFU Mutual is looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Business Partner to lead our strategic cost optimisation efforts and shape the long-term financial future of our business.

Serving as a trusted adviser to the Senior Management team, this is a pivotal role within our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and make a tangible impact on performance, planning, and strategic decision-making.

You'll be a key part of the Strategy & Group FP&A team, leading the delivery of our cost optimisation programme and long-term cost projections. You’ll take ownership of our Activity Based Costing (ABC) allocations and steer ten-year performance models, helping embed cost efficiency across the organisation.

Your focus will be on driving strategic initiatives to improve cost visibility, accuracy, and accountability, ensuring cost insights are central to our planning and forecasting. You’ll guide the design and delivery of cost allocation methodologies across short, mid, and long-term cycles, supporting decisions with high-quality analysis and recommendations.

Partnering with senior stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, you’ll lead the charge in aligning cost structures with strategic goals. You’ll also oversee continuous improvements in modelling accuracy, segmentation, and cost driver relevance to keep our processes sharp and insightful.

• Lead strategic cost optimisation and long-term financial planning
• Own cost allocation and segmentation methodologies across key planning cycles
• Deliver actionable insights through clear, data-driven analysis and storytelling
• Drive continuous improvement in cost modelling and reporting
• Collaborate across teams to embed financial performance into decision-making

This is a standout opportunity to play a key role in shaping long-term financial strategy at the heart of a trusted, industry-leading organisation.

About you

You have a diverse range of skills to excel in this dynamic role. You have exceptional stakeholder management capabilities, allowing you to build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and leaders. You can influence decision-making processes through compelling storytelling and data-driven insights to drive strategic initiatives. Strong prioritisation skills are essential to effectively manage competing demands and ensure that critical tasks are completed on time and with precision. Attention to detail is paramount, as accurate financial analysis and reporting are crucial to informing key business decisions. Furthermore, adaptability is key in navigating the evolving landscape of the insurance and financial services industry.

Technical skills required:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience in finance business partnering roles.
• Proven track record of success in FP&A, financial analysis, and stakeholder management.
• Financial knowledge of modelling, analysis, evaluation and forecasting with strong analytical skills and attention to detail, to drive commercial insight.
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights and recommendations.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

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

• Up to £70,000 to £80,000 annual salary dependent upon experience
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• 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
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 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.