Senior Finance Business Partner

About The Role
Hybrid role – 2 days a week in the office, 3 days a week at home.

Overall Job Purpose
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 & challenge variances to budget whilst managing the forward looking forecast
Identify opportunities to control, or even better, reduce costs and add value
AccountabilitiesBuild 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.
Ensure rigorous governance and accurate accounting principles are applied and followed throughout.
Support the Head of Finance and wider finance team with ad hoc requests.