Finance Business Partner

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field from data, technology, customer care, and auto repair to HR, finance, and procurement, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. We all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

Our talented, reactive, and communicative finance team are on call to help us do it in a sustainable, profitable way. With close connections to our shareholders and a commitment to integrity that spans the entire business, our people are no strangers to creating and maintaining value on an unbelievable scale.

What we're looking for:

We're looking for someone with an accounting background to provide analytical support to our leadership teams and join us as a Finance Business Partner.

In the Finance Business Partner role, you’ll need to have experience working in the insurance industry. If you are from a trading insurance background, particularly in Personal Lines or Commercial Products, that would be even better!

As part of your responsibilities, you will be managing the entire profit and loss (P&L) process, including analyzing monthly and quarterly actuals, as well as budgeting and forecasting.

You'll have good commercial acumen, present data effectively, and be able to use your communication skills to tell a complicated story in a way that will be understood by a variety of audiences.

This is a hybrid role for someone a commutable distance away from our London office.

Who you'll be working with:

As part of our FP&A and Business Partnering team, you'll work with Finance’s Shared Service Team and a diverse range of teams across DLG such as Finance, Category, Pricing, Corporate Actuarial, and Marketing.

You will engage with MI owners to create or obtain the necessary information to guide and challenge business teams, ensuring alignment of their decision-making with the Group’s financial objectives, long-term value maximization, and strategic priorities.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide functional finance leadership and commercial insight across business areas.
• Provide financial and commercial support and analysis to SLT members and their leadership team. Understand how KPIs and other trends are affecting financial performance.
• Present and report the business’ financial performance in a clear and understandable format to ExCo / SLT member(s), Category / Tribe leads, and other governance bodies as required.
• Obtain, interpret, and utilize effectively financial, actuarial, and other operational reports and data from a variety of sources, including Finance’s Shared Services Team.
• Deliver credible budgets and forecasts that reflect the strategy, risks, and opportunities of the business. Co-ordinate, engage, and project manage stakeholders to ensure delivery of budget inputs to agreed timescales.
• Understand risks and opportunities and ensure that variances to budget are understood, communicated, and reduced, challenging and supporting the business in equal measure.
• Offer financial partnering and investment appraisal expertise to support Category project teams regarding investment opportunities, partnership tenders, and cost and benefit tracking.
• Work with the Shared Service Analyst Pool to deliver business cases and scenarios, sharing best practices and agreeing priorities following the Group’s existing work stack.
• Ensure the Shared Service area develops sound models for reporting, commercial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis.

Benefits

We recognize we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, and that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit you as and when you need them:

• 9% employee contributed pension
• 50% off home, motor, and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• Up to 10% annual bonus
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax-efficient way.
• 25 days holidays
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback

Ways of Working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. Most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we’ll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

We recognize and embrace people that work in different ways, so if you need any reasonable adjustments within this recruitment process, please reach out to us and we can discuss how we can support you with this.

There’s no-one else like you.

No-one with the exact same mix of strengths, quirks, skills, and thoughts. That’s why you could belong here. As part of a team of brilliant individuals, in a place that empowers you to be the best you can be. We’re proud of who we are, of what we do, and what every single one of us brings. Join us. Help us keep innovating and putting customers at the heart of everything.

Together we’re one of a kind.

Collectively we help every business within our group aim higher. Standing shoulder to shoulder to stand out in the market, we want to be an insurance company of the future. With so many areas to choose from, your ambitions are welcome here.