Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner:

• Opportunity to collaborate with senior stakeholders and gain exposure to strategic decision-making.
• Join an award-winning company - including “Which?” Insurance Brand of the Year 2024 and Gallup’s Exceptional Place to Work 2023
• Hybrid role of around 40% homeworking and 60% in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role:

As a Finance Business Partner within our FP&A team, you will play a critical role in consolidating and controlling financial results for presentation to senior stakeholders, including the executive committee and board. This position is at the heart of our month-end and planning processes, ensuring the delivery of accurate, high-quality reports whilst maintaining robust financial controls.

Your work will include reviewing and validating results and reports provided by other teams, partnering across various teams, and collaborating with external stakeholders such as the reward and change teams. You’ll analyse cost bases and enhance reporting capabilities, ensuring that insights drive better business decisions.

This role is both operational and strategic, offering a unique opportunity to balance business-as-usual reporting tasks with forward-thinking initiatives aimed at improving processes and uncovering new insights. You will have the chance to work closely with a wide range of teams, fostering collaboration and consistency across FP&A and financial control functions. Reporting to a senior FP&A professional, the role is designed to develop your expertise in financial planning, reporting, and stakeholder engagement while contributing to broader team goals.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work some of your hours from home.

About you:

You’ll be an experienced finance professional with strong technical skills and a passion for delivering high-quality financial insights. Ideally, you’ll hold a recognised accounting qualification such as CIMA or ACCA and have proven experience in financial analysis and reporting. While familiarity with systems like Workday Adaptive Planning or Workday Financial Management is advantageous, your proficiency in Excel and ability to learn new tools quickly will ensure your success in this role.

You’ll have exceptional communication and presentation skills allowing you to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, simplifying complex financial data and influencing decision-making. You’ll be self-motivated, with a curious mindset that drives you to question existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement. You’ll thrive in a team-oriented environment, supporting your colleagues. Balancing competing priorities comes naturally to you, and you’ll excel at managing the demands of operational tasks alongside strategic initiatives.

This role offers the chance to make a real impact by contributing to the success of the FP&A team, developing your skills, and gaining exposure to a wide range of business areas.

To join our team, you’ll also have;

• Strong IT skills to include spreadsheet and data manipulation skills.

• Knowledge of advanced MS Excel (incl VBA), Business Objects and Power BI would be desirable.

• Knowledge of Workday /Adaptive accounting systems, planning software and databases would be advantageous.

• Strong continuous improvement and change management skills.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards:

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary between £45,000 to £50,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.