Job Description

Job Type:

Fixed Term

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

Fixed Term — 9 months

The Role

We are recruiting an FP&A Cost / Business Partnering Analyst to support the delivery of high-quality cost reporting, analysis and insight across the business. The role will work closely with Finance Business Partners and business stakeholders to help explain cost performance, support forecasting and planning activity, and improve the quality, consistency and usability of expense reporting.

This role is suited to a commercially minded finance analyst with strong analytical skills, attention to detail and an interest in business partnering. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with data, preparing reporting packs, investigating variances, supporting month-end activities and helping translate financial information into clear insight for stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Cost reporting and analysis

• Prepare regular cost reporting and analysis for business areas, including actuals, forecast, budget and prior-year comparisons.
• Investigate and explain key cost variances, trends and movements.
• Support the production of monthly management information and business review packs.
• Maintain cost reporting templates, trackers and reconciliations.
• Help improve the consistency, accuracy and usefulness of cost reporting.

Forecasting, budgeting and planning

• Support Finance Business Partners with forecast and budget cycles.
• Gather inputs from business stakeholders and help challenge assumptions.
• Analyse run-rate trends, cost drivers and risks/opportunities.
• Maintain planning models and support scenario analysis where required.
• Help ensure planning outputs are accurate, timely and clearly explained.
• Support cost allocation driver update processes and explanations to the Business & Business Unit stakeholders

Business partnering support

• Work with Finance Business Partners to support cost centre owners and senior stakeholders.
• Help prepare materials for business performance reviews.
• Translate financial data into clear messages and actionable insight.
• Respond to stakeholder queries on cost performance, coding, allocations and reporting.
• Build effective relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues.

Month-end and financial control

• Support month-end review activities, including accruals, prepayments, journals and cost coding checks.
• Perform reconciliations and data validation to ensure reporting accuracy.
• Identify anomalies or issues in cost data and work with relevant teams to resolve them.
• Support process documentation and controls where needed.

Process improvement and data

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise or automate recurring reporting and analysis.
• Support improvements to data quality, reporting definitions and cost categorisation.
• Help develop more efficient ways of working across FP&A and business partnering.
• Use Excel, Power BI or other finance/reporting tools to improve insight and efficiency.

Candidate Profile

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Finance, accounting or analytical background, ideally within FP&A, management reporting or business partnering.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills.
• Experience producing management information, variance analysis or cost reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with large or complex datasets.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information clearly.
• Comfortable working to deadlines, particularly around month-end and planning cycles.
• Proactive, curious and willing to get into the detail.
• Ability to build relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

About Hiscox

As an international specialist insurer, we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead, we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.

We ensure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong.

Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.

Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.

Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.

Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

Working life does not always have to be in the office so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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