Finance Business Partner

Job description

Our UK General Insurance (UK GI) business has started the search for a Finance Business Partner (FBP) to focus on providing financial support and robust challenge to the UK Commercial Lines Teams.

The FBP is crucial in helping the business drive better decision-making and generating operational efficiencies. You will be acting as the primary finance point of contract for certain lines of business, covering all financial matters in these areas.

Some of the responsibilities will involve:

• Financial and business planning, assisting in shaping of business strategy and supporting the business in delivering results
• Delivery of expense targets
• Supporting trading in the interpretation and understanding of the financial data and the implications for the business
• Working with a range of senior stakeholders and attending a number of meetings to represent the Finance Team
• Planning, forecasting and monthly MI

Skills & experience we would like to see:

• Proven experience in a commercially-focused finance role, with business partnering experience preferred
• A good commercial acumen and knowledge of the insurance business, with a particular focus on London Market/Corporate & Speciality sector
• Strong financial understanding of general insurance P&L accounts and reporting measures
• Strong communicator with the ability to build positive relationships at all levels
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified finance professional

What will you get for this role?

• A salary up to £60,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Oh, and by the way…

At Aviva, we always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that! We’ll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they’re from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you!

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we’d love it if you could submit your application online. For an alternative method of applying, please give Daniela Krol a call on: 0121 234 7660 or ping them an email at: daniela.krol@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.