Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Type:

Permanent

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The Role

We are seeking a Finance & Benefits Manager to play a pivotal role in the financial oversight of strategic change initiatives across the Group. This is a high-profile role within Group FP&A, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide transformation programmes. You will take ownership of benefits tracking, financial governance, and performance insight across a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring delivery is robust, transparent, and aligned to agreed value targets. The role requires a commercially minded finance professional who can combine strong analytical capability with the confidence to challenge, influence, and partner with senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Oversight & Benefits Governance:
- Own benefits tracking, validation and reporting
- Monitor performance vs targets, identifying risks and opportunities
- Enhance controls, processes and methodologies

Business Partnering & Challenge:
- Partner senior stakeholders and initiative owners
- Challenge business cases and benefit assumptions
- Support senior forums with financial insight

Reporting & Insight:
- Deliver portfolio performance reporting
- Prepare exec-level materials
- Provide forward-looking insights

Financial Data Integrity:
- Oversee financial data reconciliation and integrity
- Ensure consistency across systems
- Improve reporting tools and processes

Continuous Improvement & Leadership:
- Drive process improvements
- Act as SME in benefits tracking
- Support capability development

Requirements

- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
- Experience in FP&A or transformation finance
- Strong analytical and data skills
- Stakeholder management experience
- Strong communication skills

Preferred Experience

- Insurance experience
- Portfolio tools (e.g. Wave)
- Transformation programme exposure

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 insure 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.

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Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn’t always have to be ‘nine to five’ and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

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