Finance Business Partner - 12 month FTC in London

HDI is a Corporate & Specialty Insurer part of the Talanx Group. With over 120 years of experience, HDI operates across five continents, around 40 countries and employs over 5,000 people worldwide. This position is a 12 month fixed term contract.

The role

• To partner senior business stakeholders, providing insight for better decision making and leading on any financial elements requested.
• Support the business, effectively communicate the monthly result for Corporate UK and Ireland.
• Facilitate an efficient and effective annual planning process and quarterly forecast.
• Identify areas of improvement both in the business and finance, driving change where required.

Key accountabilities

Business Partnering

• Partner the Underwriter team for Corporate, providing financial insights into the corporate lines of business.
• Assess and challenge business cases for new products, ad hoc projects and other new opportunities.
• Educate the business to build financial acumen across the teams to enable stakeholders to interpret the results themselves which will lead to better underwriting decisions in the future.
• Look externally to spot and assess trends outside of the branch and subsidiary that can help drive the business forward and ultimately lead to better decisions.

Reporting

• Oversee the production of the Monthly Finance Packs to support the business in understanding the financial result for UK and Ireland.
• Ownership of the Home Office reporting requirements including premium analysis, performance overviews and adhoc requests.
• Oversee the quarterly premium accruals process and premium flash reporting.
• Improve the availability of financial data and MI, analysing trends to support better and faster business decisions.

Planning and Forecasting

• Support with facilitating the annual 5 year planning process, challenging the inputs received from the business for both the insurance P&L and expense budgets.
• Support the Finance Analyst with the Plan and Forecast P&L production process ensuring alignment with Home Office timetables and deliverables.
• Lead the implementation of the chosen Corporate planning tool, including design, and roll out to the Corporate business.

Process Improvement/Risk and Controls

• Understand the data flow within the company and suggest improvements to create greater consistency between MI reporting and financial reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement of existing financial processes to satisfy business requirements and support commercial decision making; driving automation where possible.
• Design, implement and maintain process controls.
• Ensure documentation of processes is accurate, up-to-date and accessible.

Skills & experience

• Communicating and Influencing: Positively impacts the actions and decisions of stakeholders ensuring that they are involved throughout. Negotiates confidently without damaging relationships whilst building support and buy-in for ideas. Adapts communication style depending on audience.
• Delivery and Accountability: Is accountable for own delivery to support the overall business priorities and objectives. Identifies roadblocks that might impact delivery and remains accountable for their performance.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Creates new ideas and improvements within the team which serve to reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase service levels and seize opportunities. Networks with peers internally and externally to help generate a range of ideas and options. Understands how change impacts individuals and thinks positively to overcome negativity in team members.
• Developing Capability: Actively acquires and shares knowledge to improve own performance. Supports others development and encourages them to take responsibility of their own development. Keeps up to date with industry changes and standards and shares knowledge with team when appropriate.
• Collaborating with others: Strong team player who is key in building a positive team culture. Able to build strong cross-functional collaborative relationships.
• Problem Solving: Breaks down and analyses highly complex problems and uses specialised techniques to solve problems and recognises the impacts the solutions may have. Assesses risks and is pragmatic when developing solutions.
• Other: Advanced Excel, Insurance Industry experience.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, recognising that a diverse and inclusive workplace is a creative and prosperous one.

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