Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

Ageas UK; Chandler's Ford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

35 days holiday

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Ageas UK is seeking a Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst to support the financial governance of a large integration programme. You will track costs, benefits and programme performance, delivering insight to support strategic decisions alongside Finance and the IMO.

You will maintain key financial models, challenge assumptions, and provide high‑quality analysis. The role reports to the Value Capture & Cost Manager and offers hybrid working from the UK with flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Advanced Microsoft Excel with financial modelling experience.
• Essential accounting experience with budgeting and forecasting.
• Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.

Responsibilities

• Produce and consolidate programme performance reporting for governance forums.
• Maintain the integration cost tracker and financial models with data integrity.
• Monitor synergy and benefit delivery against targets with clear reports.
• Prepare regular packs covering CtA, synergy delivery, forecasts and progress.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for the programme.
• Review and validate updated synergy submissions for accuracy.
• Partner with Finance, IMO and stakeholders to maintain governance standards.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities and raise issues.
• Deliver ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling.
• Manage competing priorities and deliver outputs on time.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Accounting experience

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: FTC – 18 months, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: Circa £70,000

Location: Hybrid, Eastleigh – once a week

Closing Date for applications: Friday 2nd October

Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst: We are looking for an analytical and commercially minded Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst to support the financial governance of a large‑scale integration programme. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in tracking costs, benefits and programme performance while providing insightful analysis to support business decision‑making. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, particularly Finance and the Integration Management Office (IMO), you will ensure that financial information is accurate, meaningful and aligned to strategic objectives.

Your work will help leaders understand programme performance, realise planned benefits and identify opportunities to maximise value delivery. Reporting to the Value Capture & Cost Manager, you will support the financial governance of the integration programme through accurate cost tracking, benefits realisation monitoring, forecasting and reporting.

You will maintain key financial models, challenge assumptions where appropriate and provide high‑quality analysis and insight that supports effective decision‑making across the programme.

Main Responsibilities as Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

• Produce and consolidate programme performance reporting for governance forums, Steering Committees and Board-level stakeholders.
• Maintain the integration cost tracker, benefit realisation tracker and supporting financial models, ensuring data integrity and alignment to agreed baselines.
• Monitor synergy and benefit delivery against approved targets, providing clear reporting on performance, risks and opportunities
• Prepare regular reporting packs covering Cost to Achieve (CtA), synergy delivery, forecast performance and progress against plan.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities, ensuring Finance teams have visibility of programme developments and associated impacts.
• Review, challenge and validate updated synergy submissions from functional workstreams to ensure accuracy, consistency and alignment with agreed assumptions.
• Partner with Finance, the Integration Management Office (IMO) and business stakeholders to maintain robust financial governance, reporting standards and methodologies.
• Identify, assess and track financial risks and opportunities across the programme, escalating issues and recommending corrective actions where required.
• Deliver ad hoc financial analysis, scenario modelling and insight to support strategic decision‑making and value capture initiatives.
• Manage competing priorities effectively, delivering accurate and high‑quality outputs within agreed timescales.

Skills and experience you need as Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modelling and analysis of large datasets.
• Essential accounting experience with a strong understanding of financial controls, budgeting and forecasting.
• Professionally qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Highly numerate with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex financial information.
• Able to translate financial data into clear and meaningful business insights.
• Strategic thinker who can balance detailed analysis with a broader commercial perspective.
• Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Self‑motivated, organised and able to manage competing priorities effectively.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part‑time/job‑shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero‑tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full‑time, part‑time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.