Gi Business Partner-Secondment

End Date
Saturday 20 April 2024
Salary Range
£62,874 - £69,860
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Flexible Working Options
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Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: General Insurance Business Partner - FTC until February 2025
LOCATION(S): Leeds
Salary; £62,874 - £69,860
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Finance Business partner to join us in a contract until February of 2025. In this role you'll be responsible for Business partnering the General Insurance leadership team to drive improved performance and support delivery of the target income & profit. Challenging to ensure that decision making is effective, targets are realistic and that profit is sustainable over the longer term. You'll play a key role in strategic projects and pricing changes through challenging assumptions and modelling the impact of any proposed business change.
Day to day you’ll be;

• Providing financial and commercial modelling to support the delivery of initiatives, responding to the changing regulatory environment and support ongoing trading.
• Owning, controlling and managing risks of appraisal models and hurdle rates, managing the accuracy of model inputs and outputs.
• Presenting Management Reports to senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are well understood and explained in a way that is relevant to the business.
• Working with the Planning team, preparing regular forecasts including group-level quarterly forecast and four-year Operating Plans. Supporting and challenging the business so that the plans produced are robust, with well-understood risks and opportunities.
• Supporting the Head of GI & Protection Business Partnering in building and maintaining a hardworking team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively, utilising the Group’s Your Best principles
• Providing insight, development & reporting of new & existing forms of metrics to meet the needs of customers.
  

About us
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you’ll find them all here.
What you’ll need

• Finance professional with a consistent record gained in a range of roles, ideally with Business Partnering experience.
• Qualified accountant.
• Experience of building and establishing positive relationships with key customers. Forming and talking through clear and tailored communications at all levels of the organisation and supporting colleagues to provide insightful analysis.

• A record of attaining results - Consistently achieving results, delivering to timelines; challenging poor outcomes or unproductive behaviours. Helping colleagues to overcome obstacles.
• Financial Planning & Forecasting Expertise - Managing finances so that goals can be achieved, negotiating financial barriers, and using appropriate methods to predict outcomes.
  

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Organisational awareness - Navigating comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organisational dynamics, bringing initiatives to the attention of those who can act as champions and advocates.
• An ability to influence - Using compelling arguments to gain the support and dedication of others. Crafting passion by building a compelling case, which you share in a timely and upbeat way to secure wide support.
• Experience of Financial Services and General Insurance desirable, but not essential.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, **Pro rata for duration of Contract which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.