Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst

Ageas; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Ageas in Eastleigh is seeking a Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst to support the financial governance of a large-scale integration programme. You will track costs, realise benefits and report performance to senior stakeholders, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic objectives.

You will maintain models, challenge assumptions and provide high-quality insight to support decision-making across the programme.

Qualifications

• Essential accounting experience with budgeting and forecasting.
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Highly numerate with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to translate financial data into clear business insights.

Responsibilities

• Produce and consolidate programme performance reporting for governance forums and boards.
• Maintain the integration cost tracker, benefit realisation tracker and financial models.
• Monitor synergy and benefit delivery against targets; report risks and opportunities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities across the programme.
• Validate updated synergy submissions to ensure accuracy and alignment.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Accounting experience

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Data storytelling

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Job description

Job Title: ValueCapture & 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: Monday 7th September

Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst: We arelooking for an analytical and commercially minded Value Capture & CostSenior Analyst to support the financial governance of a large-scale integrationprogramme.

This is anexciting opportunity to play a key role in tracking costs, benefits andprogramme performance while providing insightful analysis to support businessdecision-making. Working closely with senior stakeholders across theorganisation, particularly Finance and the Integration Management Office (IMO),you will ensure that financial information is accurate, meaningful and alignedto strategic objectives.

Your workwill help leaders understand programme performance, realise planned benefitsand identify opportunities to maximise value delivery.
Reporting tothe Value Capture & Cost Manager, you will support the financial governanceof the integration programme through accurate cost tracking, benefitsrealisation monitoring, forecasting and reporting.

You willmaintain key financial models, challenge assumptions where appropriate and provide high-quality analysis and insight that supports effectivedecision-making across the programme.

Main Responsibilities as Value Capture & Cost Senior Analyst:

• Produce and consolidateprogramme performance reporting for governance forums, Steering Committeesand Board-level stakeholders.
• Maintain the integration costtracker, benefit realisation tracker and supporting financial models,ensuring data integrity and alignment to agreed baselines.
• Monitorsynergy and benefit delivery against approved targets, providing clearreporting on performance, risks and opportunities
• Prepare regular reporting packscovering Cost to Achieve (CtA), synergy delivery, forecast performance andprogress against plan.
• Support budgeting, forecastingand financial planning activities, ensuring Finance teams have visibilityof programme developments and associated impacts.
• Review, challenge and validateupdated synergy submissions from functional workstreams to ensureaccuracy, consistency and alignment with agreed assumptions.
• Partner with Finance, theIntegration Management Office (IMO) and business stakeholders to maintainrobust financial governance, reporting standards and methodologies.
• Identify, assess and trackfinancial risks and opportunities across the programme, escalating issuesand recommending corrective actions where required.
• Deliverad hoc financial analysis, scenario modelling and insight to support strategicdecision-making and value capture initiatives
• Manage competing prioritieseffectively, delivering accurate and high-quality outputs within agreedtimescales.

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 experiencewith a strong understanding of financial controls, budgeting andforecasting.
• Professionally qualified (ACA,ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Highly numerate with exceptionalattention to detail.
• Strong analytical capabilitywith the ability to interpret complex financial information.
• Able to translate financial datainto clear and meaningful business insights.
• Strategic thinker who canbalance detailed analysis with a broader commercial perspective.
• Strong communication andpresentation skills.
• Self-motivated, organised andable 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 @ Ageasgives 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 InsuranceHealth 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- Returnto 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 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 .
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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 .

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