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Hiscox

Senior FP&A Analyst

Hiscox

FP&A Cost / Business Partnering Analyst supporting high-quality cost reporting and analysis across the business. Collaborating with Finance Partners to enhance cost performance insights.

Posted 7/18/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in financial analysis, cost reporting, and variance analysis, with strong proficiency in Excel and data validation. Capable of translating complex financial data into actionable insights while effectively collaborating with stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Financial AnalysisCost ReportingVariance AnalysisExcel ProficiencyStakeholder Communication

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Hard Skills
Cost ReportingVariance AnalysisData ValidationFinancial AnalysisManagement ReportingBudgetingForecastingReconciliationTrend AnalysisCost Coding
Soft Skills
Attention to DetailProactiveCuriousRelationship BuildingClear Communication
Tools & Technologies
ExcelPower BIFinance Reporting Tools
Industry Keywords
FP&AManagement ReportingBusiness PartneringCost Centre Management

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Prepare regular cost reporting and analysis for business areas, including actuals, forecast, budget and prior-year comparisons.
  • Investigate and explain key cost variances, trends and movements.
  • Support the production of monthly management information and business review packs.
  • Maintain cost reporting templates, trackers and reconciliations.
  • Help improve the consistency, accuracy and usefulness of cost reporting.
  • Support Finance Business Partners with forecast and budget cycles.
  • Gather inputs from business stakeholders and help challenge assumptions.
  • Analyse run-rate trends, cost drivers and risks/opportunities.
  • Help ensure planning outputs are accurate, timely and clearly explained.
  • Work with Finance Business Partners to support cost centre owners and senior stakeholders.
  • Help prepare materials for business performance reviews.
  • Translate financial data into clear messages and actionable insight.
  • Respond to stakeholder queries on cost performance, coding, allocations and reporting.
  • Support month-end review activities, including accruals, prepayments, journals and cost coding checks.
  • Perform reconciliations and data validation to ensure reporting accuracy.
  • Identify anomalies or issues in cost data and work with relevant teams to resolve them.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise or automate recurring reporting and analysis.
  • Use Excel, Power BI or other finance/reporting tools to improve insight and efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Finance, accounting or analytical background, ideally within FP&A, management reporting or business partnering.
  • Strong Excel and data analysis skills.
  • Experience producing management information, variance analysis or cost reporting.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work with large or complex datasets.
  • Good communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information clearly.
  • Comfortable working to deadlines, particularly around month-end and planning cycles.
  • Proactive, curious and willing to get into the detail.
  • Ability to build relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities