Finance Business Partner - Commercial

Who Are We?

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. Through our global social impact strategy, called 'The Big Dreams Project’, we're working to help 10,000 small businesses start or grow by 2030.

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What Is the Opportunity?

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

You'll take full ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for our Commercial teams, with a sharp focus on revenue drivers and growth optimisation. You'll be instrumental in establishing and improving our reporting and analytical outputs, leveraging data to evaluate growth opportunities, profitability, and return on investment.

As our Commercial Finance Business Partner, you’ll:

• partner strategically with our Commercial teams, providing crucial trading performance analytics and deepening insights into the commercial drivers of the business.
• work closely with Commercial leadership to drive the long-term strategy of the business, ensuring short-term decisions are aligned and supportive of our ambitious goals.
• lead and support the budget and re-forecast processes, demonstrating adaptability to changes in our core operating model. You'll navigate multiple, sometimes ambiguous, data sources and evolving processes as we transition to new finance and BI systems.
• deeply understand the end-to-end profitability requirements of our growth and optimisation initiatives, translating complex data into meaningful financial analysis and providing strategic interrogation of business cases.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• an experienced business partner within the insurance industry, with a proven track record of influencing commercial decisions.
• comfortable managing large datasets, with a keen appreciation for potential ambiguity and the ability to find clarity.
• experienced working with Data teams and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense).
• excellent at financial modelling, able to translate complex financial data into insightful, management-level information that drives action.

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in establishing and improving our reporting and analytical outputs to evaluate growth opportunities, profitability, and return on investment? Apply today.

What are the benefits of working at Simply Business:

• we offer a great work-life balance where workloads are manageable and everyone has the flexibility to work hybrid

• on top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits

• our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want - with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you're the secondary caregiver

• our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And our long-serving employees get a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service

• private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition is a core benefit. Plus a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses

• we offer a competitive salary based on your experience and the current market. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance

• access to tools to support your personal development on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling

• we match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that's four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme

• our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service)

• our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.

Employment Practices

Simply Business is committed to providing equality and opportunities for all employees and candidates considering a career with us. We offer a workplace where colleagues are treated with respect and dignity. We don’t (and won’t) discriminate either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or relationship status at any stage of the hiring process or during the course of your employment.

About Us

At Simply Business, we insure small businesses and enable big dreams. Not just for our customers, but for our people, our communities and our environment. We believe a world-class company culture is crucial to achieving our business goals as we make insurance more accessible to small business owners. We’re building a better way to buy small business insurance, and we’re using technology to get the job done. That includes developing cutting-edge data gathering and analysis capabilities; living and breathing testing and experimentation; and harnessing the many benefits of AI and other emerging technologies.

We’re a values-led business. Our people all have a part to play in building a culture that lives these values: learning, empowerment, authenticity, pioneering, and simplicity.