Unum UK
Senior Finance Business Partner
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Job Posting End Date: August 10
Who are we?
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.
The role
What will you be doing?
To provide strategic financial leadership and insight across the organisation, enabling evidenced-based decision-making, driving value for money using financial modelling and analysis. Act as a key advisor to senior leadership, supporting business planning, business cases, performance management, and investment decisions. Role supports Executive Committee and leadership teams to manage their budgets effectively, challenge spend, and identify opportunities for cost optimisation.
What will you bring?
Unum UK is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team. This is a highly visible role that sits at the heart of key business decisions, partnering with senior leaders across Distribution, Marketing, Finance, HR, and Change functions. You'll provide commercial insight, challenge, and financial leadership, helping shape strategy, optimise investment decisions, and drive sustainable business performance.
As a trusted advisor to the business, you will provide insightful financial analysis, challenge, and support to senior stakeholders, and help shape strategic priorities. You'll play a key role in supporting strategic change and technology initiatives through financial leadership, investment appraisal, and performance oversight. You will lead the production of monthly and quarterly management information, monitor key performance indicators, and deliver clear, actionable insights that enable informed business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to provide financial insight, challenge, and support across strategic initiatives and operational performance.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, influencing decision-making through insightful financial analysis, commercial challenge, and strategic recommendations.
- Lead annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, incorporating market trends and economic factors into financial recommendations.
- Deliver high-quality management information, performance reporting, and KPI analysis, translating financial data into meaningful business insight.
- Lead the financial evaluation of strategic initiatives, investment proposals, and transformation programmes, ensuring robust business cases and clear measurement of benefits realisation.
- Advise senior stakeholders on the financial impacts, risks, and opportunities associated with complex projects and business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, optimise spend, and maximise returns on strategic investments.
- Collaborate with Financial Reporting teams to ensure alignment between actual performance and forecasts, providing clear explanations of key variances.
- Support and influence business transformation, change, and process improvement initiatives, driving greater efficiency, effectiveness, and value across the organisation.
- Build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business, acting as a trusted finance partner and subject matter expert.
- Coach and support junior team members, contributing to a collaborative, high-performing, and inclusive team environment.
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What You'll Bring
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience in Business Partnering, FP&A, or Commercial Finance roles.
- Proven experience partnering with Technology, Change, and Transformation functions on complex programmes, portfolios, or projects.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess financial performance and influence strategic decision-making.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the confidence and credibility to engage, challenge, and influence senior leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build credibility quickly, and drive outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
- A natural storyteller, able to translate financial data into meaningful business narratives and actionable recommendations.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Experience within insurance or financial services would be advantageous, as would a passion for transformation, innovation, and process improvement.
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Why Join Unum?
At Unum, you'll join a collaborative and forward-thinking finance team where you'll have the opportunity to influence senior decision-making, contribute to business transformation, and play a key role in shaping the future performance of the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working in a dynamic environment and partnering with leaders to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Career Development
This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious finance professional looking to take the next step in their career. The breadth of stakeholder exposure, involvement in strategic investment decisions, and participation in major business and transformation initiatives will provide exceptional development opportunities.
You'll work closely with senior leaders across the business, gaining visibility and influence beyond Finance while developing the skills and experience needed to progress into broader strategic finance roles within Unum.
Location
Hybrid working with offices in Dorking, London, or Basingstoke.
Why join us?
At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.
As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions.
If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to careers@unum.co.uk.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
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