Finance Business Partner – Hybrid & Growth

Howden; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Howden Ireland in Dublin Ringsend seeks a Finance Business Partner to act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, delivering commercial insight and robust financial analysis to support growth and profitability.

The role works closely with broking, claims, operations, and finance; developing budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans; translating objectives into actionable metrics; and presenting findings to senior management for informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a business partnering, commercial finance, strategy or operational performance role.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Experience with Power BI or other BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders across the business.
• Provide proactive commercial insight and challenge to support strategic decision-making.
• Support the development and execution of business plans and growth strategies.
• Translate strategic objectives into measurable operational actions and performance outcomes.
• Monitor and analyse key business metrics, including revenue, commission income, client retention, new business performance and profitability.
• Develop management information and reporting to support leadership decision-making.
• Support delivery of annual budgets, forecasts and business plans.
• Assess profitability by business line.
• Evaluate investment opportunities, business cases and strategic initiatives.
• Support revenue optimisation and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Partner with broking leadership teams to understand business priorities and challenges.
• Facilitate collaboration across finance, operations, compliance, HR and commercial teams.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior management in a clear and actionable manner.
• Support transformation and change initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting and management information.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder influence

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Howden Ireland in Dublin Ringsend seeks a Finance Business Partner to act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, delivering commercial insight and robust financial analysis to support growth and profitability.

The role works closely with broking, claims, operations, and finance; developing budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans; translating objectives into actionable metrics; and presenting findings to senior management for informed decision-making.