Finance Business Partner in Liverpool

Intact Insurance is the new name for RSA in the UK, Ireland, and across Europe. It’s a new name and a new way to do business. Backed by global expertise and a commitment to service that feels different, we’re focused on making insurance simpler, faster, and more responsive.

We’re leading a transformation in insurance helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re stepping into a career where you can make a real difference.

We’re customer-driven, community-focused, and committed to helping our people grow. Whether you’re early in your journey or bringing years of experience, we’ll support you with the tools, flexibility, and opportunities to thrive.

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a passionate candidate, who is looking for career progression, to join our fast-paced UK&I Financial Control Team as a Financial Control Business Partner (FC BP). The UK&I Financial Control Team sits within the Intact Controls Hub, a cross‑functional team of control‑based experts and forms part of a Global Financial Control Team. Operating within a demanding and changing statutory and regulatory environment, the role requires high professional standards and energy levels.

This role is key to the UK&I Financial Control team, supporting compliance with relevant Intact and IFC Group policies, underpinning the Canadian NI52‑109 regulatory standard for internal financial controls. Your work must therefore be undertaken with high degrees of professional excellence, diligence, and tenacity. The exposure this enables you to interact with a wide range of different stakeholders, from across the business, and to quickly develop your knowledge and expertise and your general understanding of the business.

The Financial Control Business Partner will report into the Head UK&I Financial Control, working closely with the other FC BPs / Managers, Financial Control Accountants and ITGC Consultants to support an effective and robust Financial Control Framework (FCF). This role will provide expert knowledge, skills and interventions to influence, challenge and support the achievement of compliance with all relevant requirements of the FCF, in line with NI52-109 across business process areas ensuring a robust framework that can be relied upon by a wide and senior stakeholder base.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Partnering with Process and Control Owners to ensure that a robust financial control framework is designed and operated by Line 1 to effectively mitigate material financial reporting risk and fraud and to ensure compliance with NI52‑109.
• Providing appropriate challenge and advice in relation to the development of new processes and controls within Line 1, to ensure the relevant risks are effectively mitigated.
• Reporting to local Financial Controllers over the efficacy of the financial control environment and ensuring that any deficiencies are addressed sustainably, suitably and timely.
• Completing control validation activities with a risk based mindset, bringing appropriate challenge.
• Ensuring validation is completed to a high quality with clear and well documented conclusions.
• Providing oversight to ensure Line 1 owners maintain process documentation in accordance with the expectations outlined in the FCF.
• Driving and ensuring effective and sustainable remediation of process and control deficiencies to ensure material risks are mitigated, including any required actions and compensatory behaviours.
• Undertaking risk refreshes and process deep dives to ensure that the FCF is designed effectively and compliantly.
• Ensuring that the FCF is proportionate and efficiently/effectively maintained.
• Using key management information, from many sources, to truly understand the financial control and operational risks that can impact upon process efficacy – e.g. incidents, other sources of assurance, projects/change etc.
• Partnering with the business in preparation for, and during, change programmes to ensure that the financial control environment is well maintained and not impeded by the projects – in fact, using such opportunities to improve efficiencies and controls robustness.
• Effectively engaging with Risk and Internal Audit functions and external audit team.

Your skills and experience:

• Risk and control knowledge, expertise and experience is essential.
• Qualified accountant / experienced internal/external auditor (financial/insurance services experience beneficial).
• Effective communicator in written and oral form.
• Effective and confident stakeholder engagement.
• Solid understanding of financial processes – reporting and feeder/business systems – and ability to challenge performance, control and remediation requirements.
• Ability and confidence to interpret, investigate and robustly challenge complex sources of data and information to understand and develop controls, assurance levels and requirements.
• Confident ability to provide technical controls guidance to process and control owners.
• Ability to confidently challenge, enforcing integrity and robustness in the financial control environment while also balancing this with pragmatism and the ability to apply sound judgement.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Up to 11% pension contributions.
• Hybrid working + flexible hours.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell options.
• Health & wellbeing + virtual GP.
• Career development and mentoring.
• Inclusive culture + employee networks.
• Share investment options.

Our DEI Commitment: We celebrate individuality and believe our differences make us stronger. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive. As an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, we ensure fair consideration for all applicants and offer interviews to all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We understand that everyone’s circumstances are different and are happy to explore flexible working options such as reduced hours or job shares to support work‑life balance. If you meet the core criteria but not every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Let’s explore how this role could support your next career step. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know – we’re here to support you.