Finance Business Partner - Costs

Finance Business Partner - Cost

Role Purpose

The Cost Finance Business Partner will play a pivotal role in supporting EUI’s strategic financial planning and cost management. This role involves close collaboration with various business departments to provide financial insights, drive cost efficiencies, and enhance business performance. The successful candidate will act as a trusted partner to senior management and be an important part of the business department.

Main Duties

• Business Partnering: Collaborate with department heads to understand their strategic goals and providing financial insights. Working with departments to build robust business cases focussing on delivering long term value.
• Strategic Cost Management: Identify and help lead long term cost-saving initiatives.
• Financial Planning: Develop and manage comprehensive financial models to forecast costs and assess financial performance against budget.
• Reporting: Prepare and present detailed financial reports, including variance analysis, to senior management and stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve financial processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
• Relevant business partnering experience.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis.
• Highly motivated, proactive, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in financial systems and Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey financial insights to non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Prior experience in the insurance or financial services industry (not essential).
• Experience of using finance planning tooling is desirable.

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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