Finance Business Partner - Bournemouth - Insurance
Leading Global Insurer is currently hiring for a Finance Business Partner to join their team in Bournemouth. This role will focus on providing dedicated business partnering support and effective finance leadership on the organisations expense base, with a key focus on IT and Projects cost centres.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted business partner to the management team of the business.
- Challenge the Business to deliver cost savings through the identification and presentation of opportunities, and through precise year-round expense discipline.
- Build and maintain an excellent understanding of the responsible areas cost base in terms of actual and budgeted spend as well as keeping a running understanding of forecasted positioning.
- Preparation of cost centre reports and detailed cost analysis for budget holders, presenting them monthly, explaining variances and identifying options to remain on budget.
- Ensuring close and continuous support to budget holders, ensuring that they understand their budgets and actual costs as well as acting as support for all things numerical.
- Key point of contact for all expense/cost related queries for Division's being supported.
- Lead role in preparing the annual budgets, and ad hoc outturns.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in Finance Business Partnering/FP&A role - essential
- Experience in working for a FTSE 250 Business
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA or ACA preferred)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and challenge key stakeholders
- Advanced user of Excel, with experience in data analysis.
- Experience in project accounting - desirable
This is a very unique opportunity to act as a bridge between Finance and the business to support strategic financial decisions for the organisation. You will have regular interaction with key stakeholders across the business and it is therefore essential you have exceptional interpersonal skills. The role offers realistic career progression opportunities and a strong flexible working culture.
Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
