General Insurance Finance Business Partner

General Insurance Finance Business Partner

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General Insurance Finance Business Partner

Salary: £67,023 - £81,917 Location: Leeds Hours: Full-time Working pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office.

About this opportunity

Do you enjoy turning complex financial information into clear commercial insight that influences business decisions? We're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our General Insurance (GI) Commercial Finance team. This is a highly visible role where you'll partner with senior business leaders to drive performance, support strategic decision-making, and deliver sustainable income and profit growth.

You'll provide insightful financial analysis across P&L, Balance Sheet, Capital and Cash Flow, ensuring performance is clearly understood, effectively managed, and accurately reported. Through strong business partnering and high-quality management information, you'll help shape commercial decisions and influence business outcomes.

You'll also play a key role in developing plans, financial forecasting, and scenario modelling, challenging assumptions to ensure targets are achievable and long-term profitability is maintained. In addition, you'll support strategic initiatives and pricing decisions by assessing the financial impact of proposed changes and helping prioritise business investment and transformation activity.

What you'll be doing

Providing financial and commercial modelling to support the delivery of initiatives, responding to the changing regulatory environment and support ongoing trading. Understand and articulate the revenue and/or cost drivers and use these to optimise business opportunities, manage change and drive improvement initiatives. Support investment projects and cases. Ensure interlock on all investment/project benefits, financial tracking and objectives. Support and deliver the 4YOP, quarterly forecasts, rolling monthly forecasts and QBR outputs for GI. Work with Actuarial, Pricing and Commercial teams to build challenging and credible plans. Providing insight, development and reporting of new and existing forms of metrics to meet the needs of customers. Presenting to senior partners, ensuring that results and issues are well understood and explained in a way that is relevant to the business.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.

What you'll need

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Finance professional with a consistent record gained in a range of roles, ideally with Business Partnering experience. Strong financial planning, forecasting and modelling capability. Experience influencing and building effective relationships with senior partners. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear business insights. Strong commercial acumen and the confidence to constructively challenge and influence decision-making using compelling arguments. A proven track record of delivering results and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience identifying financial risks and opportunities and translating analysis into practical recommendations.

And any experience of these would be really useful

Experience within General Insurance or a broader insurance environment. Knowledge of General Insurance financial processes, products and performance drivers. Experience working closely with Pricing, Commercial or Actuarial teams. Experience supporting large-scale transformation, investment or strategic change programmes. Experience in Power Platform tools (e.g., Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate)

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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Job ID 153963

Agile Working Options Job Share; Hybrid Working

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Benefits that work for you

Our benefits are designed to support you both in and out of work. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including health insurance, pension, holiday allowance, family leave and flexible working.

Benefits

• From holiday allowance and flexible working options to private health cover and generous pension contributions, we’ve built a benefits package that works for everyone.

Join us and you’ll have access to:

• Pay and Bonus – competitive salaries as well as bonus aligned to group, business area and individual performance.
• Hybrid working giving you the option to work from home for up to three days a week, extended up to five days a week over the summer period.
• Private medical insurance providing all colleagues with access to quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Generous pension scheme with employer contributions. The more you save, the more we'll contribute to your plan, starting with 9% if you pay in 3% of your salary, going all the way