Finance Business Partner

London, UK
Finance - Financial Planning & Analysis – Financial Planning & Analysis /
Fixed Term Contract /
Hybrid
Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Have you been looking for a Finance Business Partner role where you take your deep understanding of your stakeholders and turn it into actionable insights to help the business grow? In this position you’ll work closely with your team(s) to assist them with the modelling of their business plans.

Your manager, Chean, is looking for an inquisitive person, someone who will want to learn and understand everything with a desire to drive actionable insights and support the business in making meaningful investment decisions.

This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.

As one of our Finance Business Partners, you’ll:

    • work with the executive management team to drive the long range Shared Services investment strategy, making sure it’s supported by the right short-term decision making
    • Lead on the production and automation of financial MI that will drive operational efficiencies and executive level decisions
    • ownership of the cost base, ensuring performance to plan and driving operational efficiencies. This includes closing month-end (i.e. P/L results for SHS global cost centres, intercompany recharges, UK CAPDEV)
    • engage with our Finance Transformation journey and support the transition to new BI, EPM and forecasting tools

We’re looking for someone who is:

    • a qualified accountant with 5+ years PQE and prior experience working in a similar role
    • data savvy, able to turn large volumes of complex financial data into meaningful management level information
(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Ready to collaborate with global stakeholders, providing transparency on investment decisions against the Long Range Plan? Apply today!


About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid. 

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits. 

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling. 

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.