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Senior Finance Business Partner

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Senior Finance Business Partner will partner with the COO and other key stakeholders to provide financial insights, manage budgets, prepare forecasts, and support decision-making processes. Responsibilities include financial management of diverse areas, reporting, risk identification, and improving business processes to enhance efficiency.
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Helping you do more

DUAL is a different kind of MGA and has been since day one in 1998. We’ve built our business on the idea that when industry expertise, intelligent underwriting and an entrepreneurial mindset come together, insurance can help our partners thrive. Today that philosophy is as relevant as ever. Our intermediary and carrier partners around the world rely on our underwriting teams to take initiative, lean into the challenges of an increasingly complex world, and respond to our clients’ emerging needs.

A career that grows with you

DUAL is a place where you can bring your whole self to work – a people-first company that helps you be the best you can be.

 

Role overview

This is a brilliant opportunity to join DUAL UK as a Senior Finance Business Partner. You will partner and support the COO of UK and Europe and key stakeholders across that team, including the provision of insight and analysis to support decisions, preparation and development of budgets, forecasts and management information.

To be successful in this role you must have a drive to continually improve, be able to build relationships with key stakeholders, use initiative and be able to back up assumptions confidently, as well as being a strategic and analytical thinker.

Role responsibilities

  • Partner with business area to provide insight and support decision making to achieve business plans
  • Develop and provide accurate and insightful reporting leveraging financial and non-financial data
  • Responsible for the financial management of budgets in IT, Operations, PMO, MI, Data and Bordereaux
  • Build strong relationships with PMO to consistently drive and improve reporting of capitalised staff time
  • Deliver planning, budgeting and forecasting process for the area including identification of risk and opportunities
  • Support business case development, commercial contracts, programme & project delivery and business reviews providing robust financial data
  • Provide management information and ad hoc analysis to support performance tracking, cost control and decision making ensuring these are timely, relevant and insightful
  • Support investment appraisals and work closely with the PMO to support the projects through the project life cycle, including post investment appraisals for key projects
  • Ensure the right financial standards, compliance processes and controls are applied into the business
  • Support period end activities including variance analysis and commentary
  • Identify, suggest and implement improvements to business processes and financial controls to increase efficiency and ensure all costs are recorded accurately

DUAL is where ambitious people thrive

There’s an independent spirit and an entrepreneurial feel that run throughout the business. You’ll have greater freedom to use your talents to help clients and colleagues do more. We believe that’s fundamental to realising our vision to be the world’s best underwriting business.

Working here is rewarding

As well as job satisfaction and a stimulating culture, working at DUAL comes with all the benefits you’d expect from a global business – and some you wouldn’t.

— Family-first policies that support you through all of life’s milestones

— Health and wellbeing benefits including private medical insurance and more

— Critical illness and life insurance cover to give you extra financial security

— A choice of rewards for every five years of service, including shares

— Volunteer leave so you can make a difference outside of work too

Reasonable adjustments

At DUAL, we're committed to providing reasonable accommodations to make sure our positions align with our people’s needs. For example, we can always make adjustments to your office set-up – your software, hardware, desk and so on. We may also be able to offer flexible hours or hybrid working depending on your role and location. If you're excited about this position but have doubts as to how ‘workable’ it is for you, please send us your application. If your profile fits the criteria, we’ll be happy to chat about any reasonable accommodations you may need.

The power to change our world

As a business, DUAL is about taking action. It’s fundamental to our entrepreneurial spirit, and it doesn’t just apply during office hours. It relates to the communities we move in and the world we live in. That’s why we constantly strive to be a force for good.

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