Lead Finance Business Partner – Workplace
Phoenix Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £70,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide challenge in business performance plans and outcomes, with an aim to maximise commercial value in the aligned business area.
- Play a proactive role in the development of financial forecasting and planning, across a range of financial metrics, and ensure connection and consistency with the respective business areas activity and delivery.
- An ability to explain the trading results to the business stakeholders in a meaningful way that can influence decisions and actions. Supporting the business unit in understanding the commercial drivers behind each of the businesses to execute value maximising activity.
- Identify options and opportunities for financial performance management through considered analysis of experience and ensuring presentation of these findings in an appropriate method. Taking accountability to drive forward value to the aligned business area and champion a curiosity mindset, with a willingness to engage proactively in decisions.
- Deliver ad-hoc commercial analysis, identifying key trends and bringing these to life for the business stakeholders. Making recommendations from the findings of the analysis.
- Support the creation of business cases that will improve strategic value and ensure that these are aligned to ongoing strategy, forecasting and planning for the business.
- Effectively communicate complex information to a wide group of stakeholders against a background of continuous regulatory and business change. Ensuring that outputs are tailored appropriately to the audience.
- A self-starter attitude looking for ways to optimise or improve the outputs from the team to ensure we work efficiently and driving forward best-practice in making-things-happen. To be a trusted voice to the stakeholders across the business and finance.
- Taking ownership for commercial assessments within broader activity and feed into broader investment decisions for the aligned business area, ensuring that all financial impacts are understood and considered as part of decision making. Ensuring that accountability is taken for changes driven elsewhere across the Group that affect the business area of the team.
- Represent the team across various internal and external working groups/management committees, sharing knowledge and opinions, proactively engaging, and influencing other stakeholders where appropriate to ensure reasonable requirements are met.
Requirements
- A strong understanding of pensions and savings products, along with awareness of the competitive landscape and wider markets. (Essential)
- A naturally curious mindset with a willingness to engage in a wide range of initiatives and a natural desire for problem solving and optimisation.
- Analytical thinking skills, paired with the ability to clearly communicate complex information to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify key priorities and seek guidance when needed, in an environment of constant change and tight deadlines.
- Proven experience in stakeholder management, including effective business partnering for an open trading business.
- Influencing at various levels: the role must provide challenge on financial performance and expense management, often navigating sensitive or contested decisions.
- Must have an accounting qualification.
Benefits
- Up to £70,000 depending on experience plus an indicative bonus range 16% - 32%
- private medical cover
- 38 days annual leave
- excellent pension
- 12x salary life assurance
- career breaks
- income protection
- 3x volunteering days
- and much more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
financial forecastingfinancial planningcommercial analysisdata analysisbusiness case developmentperformance managementfinancial metricsstakeholder managementexpense managementaccounting
Soft skills
analytical thinkingcommunicationproblem solvingcuriosity mindsetinfluencingself-starterownershipadaptabilitycollaborationbusiness partnering
Certifications
accounting qualification