Lead Commercial Finance Business Partner

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London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
Insuring small businesses, enabling big dreams.
The Role
Are you a commercially-minded qualified accountant with a passion for driving growth and optimizing performance? We're looking for a proactive Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of our Commercial teams.

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 optimization. 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 Lead Commercial Finance Business Partner, you’ll:

  • partner strategically with our MGA and 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 optimization 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.


About Simply Business

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. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

Why not check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2024: 'Simply the Best'


What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid. 

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus 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 as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling. 

We’ll 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).

And 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.

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Simply Business Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off is notably extensive, with 25 vacation days, 10 sick days, multiple holidays, and paid sabbaticals after long service. Feedback suggests this level is generous for the U.S. market.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support includes a 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to 5%. Feedback suggests this match compares favorably to many mid‑market employers.
  • Parental & Family Support Family benefits include generous parental leave, an on‑site mother’s room, and childcare tuition discounts. Feedback suggests these supports complement core coverage to strengthen total rewards.

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HQ: Boston, MA
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Simply Business is the leading digital insurance marketplace dedicated to the success of small businesses. Our mission is to take the hassle out of buying insurance by offering simplicity, choice, and value to business owners. We connect our customers with top-rated insurers and policy recommendations tailored to their specific business needs and budget. We have nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses, with over 1 million customers worldwide. Founded in the U.K. in 2005, Simply Business revolutionized how small businesses find insurance, making it accessible and affordable. We then saw a similar need in the United States. So in 2017, we launched Simply Business in the U.S.. Today, our team sits across offices in Boston in the U.S., as well as in London and Northampton in the U.K., showcasing our innovation at scale and dedication to serving the backbone of our economies. Simply Business is more than our name. It’s how we approach small business insurance.

Why Work With Us

Here at Simply Business we have five core values that we uphold in everything that we do: Learning, Empowerment, Authenticity, Pioneering, and Simplicity. Utilizing these values and embedding them into our culture makes SB a unique and great place to work, a place where every person is valued, a place where we get things done and have fun doing so.

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