Finance Change Business Partner

We're looking for a qualified Accountant (or qualified by experience) to join our team. You'll have experience Business Partnering or of financial operational change. We're looking for you to be able to demonstrate a level of understanding of key finance reporting processes, finance systems, technical skills, data, risks, and controls, ideally within a Financial Services environment.Location: This role is hybrid, with 2 or 3 days on average to be spent in your base office which could be Edinburgh or Wythall.

Secondment - 12 months Fixed Term Contract
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Salary and benefits: Up to £60k plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Finance Change Business Partner to join the Reporting and Operations (ReOp) change team
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We're the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We're a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.
The role
This role will be part of the Finance Change Business Partnering and Embedding and will have responsibility for partnering one or more of the 5 change hubs. This role requires an experienced and commercially astute accountant who has worked in a business facing role, ideally in insurance, and who has experience of driving change within an organisation. The successful candidate will report into the Senior Finance Business Partner and will be crucial in delivering a scalable, efficient change and supporting the business growth ambitions. You'll do this through some of your key responsibilities such as, horizon scanning, developing and deep diving into our business requirements, defining these in a way that they're clear for Finance. Developing designs to ensure Finance Change is understood and requirements can be met ahead of moving into the build phase. You'll support with the embedding of changes and with resolving implementation issues and defects that may rise, all whilst adhering to the Finance Change Governance Framework.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for a qualified Accountant (or qualified by experience) to join our team. You'll have experience of financial operational change and of designing or delivery of a target operating model. We're looking for you to be able to demonstrate a level of understanding of key finance reporting processes, finance systems, technical skills, data, risks, and controls within a Financial Services environment.
You'll have excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills, to build networks, whilst being able to communicate complex accounting procedures and principles with multiple stakeholders across the business and influencing outcomes.
Through excellent organisational skills, strong task ownership and a diligent approach you'll be successful within this role.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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