At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial planning and forecasting to drive effective decision-making across the Group.
- Company: Join Hiscox, a diverse and inclusive company that values its people.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Flexible working model tailored by your team for a balanced lifestyle.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by improving financial strategies and driving transformation.
- Qualifications: Strong FP&A leadership experience and a professional accounting qualification required.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox.
About the Role
The Head of Planning & Forecasting is responsible for leading the planning and forecasting capability within the Group FP&A Centre of Excellence. The role defines and governs how financial planning and forecasting is delivered across the Group, ensuring outputs are consistent, robust, and support effective decision-making. The job holder is accountable for establishing planning frameworks, improving forecast accuracy, and ensuring clear alignment between planning, forecasting, and performance management outputs.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead planning & forecasting across the Group.
- Accountable for the delivery of the Group-wide annual business planning process, including governance, timelines, and coordination across business units.
- Responsible for quarterly forecasting and rolling reforecast processes, ensuring outputs are consistent, accurate, and aligned to business performance.
- Defines and embeds driver-based planning methodologies across the organisation.
- Challenges assumptions with senior stakeholders to improve the quality and robustness of financial plans.
- Ensures scenario analysis, stress testing, and sensitivity modelling are embedded within planning processes.
- Supports long-term planning, ensuring alignment with capital requirements, risk considerations, and actuarial assumptions.
- Acts as Group process owner for planning and forecasting, setting standards, governance, and policies.
- Drives standardisation and simplification of planning processes across business units.
- Improves forecast accuracy and transparency through enhanced modelling, data, and assumptions.
- Leverages systems and automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual activity.
- Own the integration between planning outputs and management information, ensuring consistency between plan and forecast outputs.
- Partner with the Performance Management Team to align KPI definitions, assumptions and reporting structures.
- Ensure MI outputs reflect key business drivers and provide a clear link to forecast assumptions.
Must Haves
- Strong FP&A leadership experience with deep expertise in financial modelling, planning and forecasting. Experience in insurance or financial services is preferred.
- Degree level education and professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Excellent analytical capability, with the ability to interpret financial data and translate it into clear business insight.
- High level of attention to detail, sound judgement and strong commercial awareness.
- Experience of using financial systems, planning tools and data analytics to support decision-making.
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. Working life does not always have to be in the office so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
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Hiscox is an exceptional employer that prioritises diversity and inclusivity, fostering a culture where every employee can thrive. With a commitment to hybrid working, employees enjoy the flexibility to balance their professional and personal lives while contributing to a leading international insurance group. The company also offers robust opportunities for growth and development, ensuring that team members are well-equipped to tackle the evolving challenges in cyber security.
