Team – Finance Business Partners
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in either the Vitality Bournemouth or London office. Full time hours.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Stakeholder management
- Organisation skills
- Pro-active resolution management
What this role is all about:
To provide dedicated business partnering support and effective finance leadership on Vitality’s expense base, working closely with all levels of the business to act as a bridge between Finance and the business to support on all things numerical, produce monthly and ad hoc analysis of expenses, investigate and challenge variances to budget while managing the forward-looking forecast, and identify opportunities to control or, even better, reduce costs and add value to the areas supported.
Key Actions
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior management of the business.
- Constructively challenge the Business to deliver cost savings through the identification and presentation of opportunities, and through rigorous year-round expense discipline.
- Build and maintain an excellent understanding of the responsible areas cost base in terms of actual and budgeted spend as well as keeping a running understanding of forecasted positioning.
- With the support of Anaplan, produce cost centre reports and detailed cost analysis for budget holders, presenting them monthly, explaining variances and identifying options to remain on budget. These types of meetings will include, but not exclusive to, Steering Committees, Executive Committees and Divisional updates.
- Provide close and continuous support to budget holders, ensuring that they understand their budgets and actual costs as well as acting as support for all things numerical.
- Become the primary point of contact for all expense/cost related queries for Division’s being supported.
- Take the lead in preparing the annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and ad hoc outturns within the deadlines set.
- Ensure rigorous governance and accurate accounting principles are applied and followed throughout.
- Support the Finance Director and wider Finance team with ad hoc requests.
What do you need to thrive?
- Proven experience in senior roles within a Finance team.
- Ability to work constructively with senior stakeholders, providing them with support whilst challenging decisions in order to maximise their financial performance.
- Experience of managing multiple priorities to strict deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.