Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

Ageas Insurance Ltd; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Health benefits

Annual Bonus

Competitive Pension

Well-being activities

Job summary

Ageas Insurance Ltd. is seeking a Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst to drive financial governance, evaluate cost and synergy opportunities, and support strategic decision-making across the programme.

You will consolidate reports for boards and governance forums, maintain trackers and models, and partner with Finance and IMO to ensure data integrity and insight-driven actions. The role emphasizes senior stakeholder engagement and rigorous financial analysis.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel with financial modelling.
• Experience in accounting with budgeting and forecasting.
• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Highly numerate with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong analytical capability to interpret complex financial information.
• Ability to translate financial data into clear business insights.
• Strategic thinker with a broader commercial perspective.
• Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce and consolidate programme performance reporting for governance forums, Steering Committees and Board-level stakeholders.
• Maintain integration cost tracker, benefit realisation tracker and supporting financial models.
• Monitor synergy and benefit delivery against targets with clear reporting on risks and opportunities.
• Prepare regular reporting packs covering CtA, synergy delivery and forecast performance.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities for visibility of developments.
• Review and validate updated synergy submissions for accuracy and alignment.
• Partner with Finance, IMO and stakeholders to maintain robust governance and reporting standards.
• Identify and track financial risks and opportunities across the programme.
• Deliver ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling for decision-making.
• Manage competing priorities and deliver outputs within timescales.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Attention to detail

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst: If you love getting underneath the numbers, spotting opportunities and turning insight into action, this could be the role for you!

As our Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst, you’ll have the opportunity to work across the business, using data and insight to identify opportunities, support better decision-making and help turn ideas into tangible value.

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