Finance Business Partner-Sales and Pricing

United Kingdom

12/6/2024

Job Advert

Are you looking for the next step in your career in Finance? Are you a technical finance professional who enjoys partnering with innovative areas of a business? Do you thrive on working within an collaborative and changing environment?

If so, you might be interested in our new Finance Business Partner role, working with our Pricing and Sales teams!

Package: Up to £65k, great benefits including 25 holiday days (plus your birthday off) Paid day off for charity work, Group life assurance, PMI and pet insurance discount.

Location and hours: We can accommodate fully remote within the UK, or hybrid working arrangements- whatever suits you best! We do however like to meet quarterly in person and it would be great if you can join us!

Please note - we will be looking to interview week commencing 6th January 2025

What you`ll get up to as a Finance Business Partner-Pricing and Sales

• Build strong relationships by acting as the finance business partner to the:
• Chief Product & Pricing Officer
• Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
• Provide timely KPI reporting, insight and challenge on financial performance relating to partnered business areas
• Support business areas with scenario analysis (working with the FP&A team as appropriate)
• Provide analysis and commentary to regular performance reports and planning documents (including insight at a specie & channel level)
• Provide accurate, clear & insightful reporting to ensure both the finance community and partnered business areas are clear on finance (& related) performance, variances to target and forecasts
• Ensure alignment of finance treatments with departmental approaches – specifically relating to the reporting of premiums, policy volumes, filesize, CPAs and loss ratios
• Act as the key point of contact between finance and the partnered business area for management accounting, forecast and budgeting activity
• Ensure the Head of Commercial Finance and CFO are kept informed of future initiatives and activities in the partnered areas
• Champion financial awareness across partnered business areas
  
  

What We Look For In You

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified
• Insurance Experience
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar Expenses business partnering role
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Previous analysis and commercial exposure.
• Proven ability to communicate and influence across all levels effectively.
• Understand the value drivers of AFI and is commercially aware.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  
  

What Animal Friends is all about!

We are part of the Pinnacle Pet Group (PPG) – a pan European fully integrated pet insurance and pet health services provider. On a mission to help pets live happy, healthy lives with their pet parents, PPG are committed to supporting the diverse needs of their customers and colleagues with a clear ambition to become the world leader in pet insurance and healthcare services.

Animal Friends has grown to become not only an award-winning business but one of the largest pet insurance providers in the UK, with around 500 colleagues helping us to look after over 1 million pets, offering cover for cats, dogs and horses. 

A large part of our success is due to our company values which are the foundation of how we work, we are courageous by continually looking for new ways to innovate our customers experience and the pet insurance industry. We are kind-hearted with animal welfare being important to us, we donate and support over 800 charities and conservancies across the UK and worldwide, to date, we have donated over £8.5 million. And we are passionate about the support we provide to our customers helping them care for their pets.

Benefits Of Working With Animal Friends

We recognise that your hard work shouldn`t come without its perks, so here`s a little list of some of the things you can expect to get from us:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and we give you your birthday off
• Fully paid day off for charity work
• 95% of our employee’s own pets, we’re able to provide up to 50% off insurance along with free access to our Vet consultation app JOII
• We believe looking after employees’ health is important, so we offer discount on gym membership, access to a Wellbeing hub and a health care cash plan / private medical insurance and Group life assurance
• We like to celebrate success and recognise excellent employee performance; we will donate £3k to the charity of our employee of the quarter’s choice
• Most importantly, you`ll be working within a courageous, passionate and kind-hearted team
  
  

Animal Friends Pet Insurance Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions, and sexual orientations. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We offer accessibility help with application forms which is available via the jobs page of our website.

As an FCA regulated business, we require successful applicants to clear our pre-employment screening process which includes a credit check and references checks. Under the latest UK Right to Work regulations, we will require successful applicants to evidence their right to work in the UK, either in person, online, or digitally via a third party subject to circumstances.

Department

Finance

Contract type

Permanent

Hours

37.5

Salary

up to £65k