Finance Business Partner (FTC) - Brown & Brown (Europe) : Job Details

Finance Business Partner (Fixed Term Contract – 12 Months)

Location: London/M25 (Travel c30%)

Salary: Negotiable Benefits

As we continue to grow and scale our team we’re recruiting a new Finance Business Partner to join the central finance team on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

You’ll have experience within either a Finance Business Partner role or be looking to step up from a Management Accountants style role.

You’ll be a people person, comfortable in dealing with stakeholders at all levels and communicating effectively.

On a day to day basis you’ll:

• Lead the annual budget planning process for a region of offices, collaborating with business MDs and Retail MDs to prepare budget (bottom-up and top-down) and ensure MD engagement in the budget planning process
• Lead the Latest Estimate planning process throughout the year, collaborating with business MD’s to understand variances in performance and expenses vs. original budget and forecasting year end position, ensuring all planning assumptions are appropriate, providing insight to the numbers and challenging the MD’s on forecast assumptions where required.
• Prepare & circulate ‘flash report’ ahead of Day 2 meeting with Retail MD’s, highlighting rationale for variances in performance vs. budget/forecast
• Chair and capture minutes/actions arising from Day 2 meeting
• Review final monthly performance by business and identify and resolve any anomalies/issues with results (GWP, Income, Expenses etc)
• Highlight areas of under/over performance and agree action plan with business MD/Retail MD if appropriate
• Monitor operating expenses to ensure within budget, accurately allocated and appropriate accruals in place where necessary i.e. bonus accruals
• Attend quarterly management meetings and provide update on previous month/quarter/YTD performance vs. budget/LE and a challenge on the current / future performance of the business.
• Prepare quarterly and year-end bonus reporting for review and approval
• Work with Retail team to provide financial analysis to support business cases & initiatives and recommend actions to improve business value and drive growth
• Provide commercial support on Retail strategy and project workstreams
• Support the preparation of management reports
• Weekly trend analysis of key trading metrics across all businesses, products, etc, flagging areas that require focus to the individual businesses
• Oversee the financial reporting for the business including periodic and Ad hoc reporting both internally and externally.
• Ensuring financial compliance with internal company policies and procedures including SOX and KPI reporting, as well as external agencies such as FCA and Auditors relating to the financial management of the business.
• Act as a conduit between operations and central functions to resolve issues and apply a consistent approach to the numbers.

About you:

• Degree or professional Finance qualifications i.e. ACCA / CIMA / ACA qualified (Part Qual Considered)
• Previous experience working in the insurance industry, with in-depth understanding of broking business model and insurance accounting
• A varied and well rounded skill set that includes strong communication (written, verbal, video), analytical, stakeholder management and negotiation skills coupled with the ability to use different IT Platforms (Workday exposure beneficial)
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices
• The ability to understand your audience, to analyse data and to deliver information in a clear and user-friendly manner is critical i.e. an ability to explain numbers in “non-financial language” is a must
• Able to multi-task and manage multiple projects at one time
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise changing workloads.
• Ability to work under pressure and thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail