Senior Shared Expense Business Partner

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Shared Expense Business PartnerJob Type: PermanentLocation: LondonOpportunity Overview: A fantastic opportunity has become available to join a UK leading specialty insurance and reinsurance company, Aspen, as a Senior Shared Expense Business Partner.Role Objective: Partner with client groups from across Corporate Functions and/or Business Segments and acting as the subject matter expert informing, advising and influencing clients on planning, reporting, and analysing the operating expense base, and togenerate shareholder value through a focus on expense reduction and control within theiraligned client groups.Key Responsibiltes:* Responsible for monthly presentation of Budget versus Actual packs, business planning and reforecasting activities relating to specificfunctional areas, and presenting to ExCo stakeholders.* Work collaboratively with cost centre managers, ExCo stakeholders andcolleagues in the segment and platform teams, as well as with Groupand Entity Finance functions, to develop business plans and improve thereporting of actuals relating to expenses.* Highlight trends and risks in expenses against budget and ensure thatappropriate controls are in place to eliminate excessive, wasteful orinappropriate spending and challenge overruns by the business.* Focus on continuous improvement to align and enhance global expenseplanning, processing and reporting to create consistency across theglobal business.* Support cost centre managers with business planning and allocations,and responsible for collating and capturing expense plans, enter datainto the system accurately and on time in order provide relevant reportsand analysis insights.* Working with cost centre managers, monitor global actuals, includingmonthly variances against plan, to ensure accuracy of results reportedand deliver reports and analysis in a timely manner.* Act as the subject matter expert for Group function expenses* Accountable for reporting and analysis of global expenses and FTEpositions for specific client groups, including budget, actual andreforecast including commentary for management reports and other adhoc reporting.* Manage all aspects of the global expense business planning process forthe client groups, working collaboratively with other workstreams, toupdate allocations model, manage the expense model, and providerelevant reports and analysis insights.Requirements:* Previous experience in the Insurance/financial services industry* Ability to think and plan strategically to add value to the expense reporting process across a global business.Skills* Professional accounting qualification (ACA,ACCA, CIMA)* Excellent analytical and reporting skills with a strong attention to detail* Ability to build strong business relationships across a global business* Proven planning and organisation skills* Ability to effectively manage workload and prioritise tasks to complete within a given time frame* Advanced written and verbal communication skills* Very strong Excel skills (Sumif, vlookup, Index Match, vba exposure)Experience* Expense accounting experience* Business partnering experience working with senior stakeholdersDont hesitate and miss out!