Who are we?
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.
The roleWhat will you be doing?
To provide strategic financial leadership and insight across the organisation, enabling evidenced based decision making, driving value for money using financial modelling and analysis. Act as a key advisor to senior leadership, supporting business planning, business cases, performance management and investment decisions. Role supports Executive Committee and leadership teams to manage their budgets effectively, challenge spend and identify opportunities for cost optimisation.What will you bring?
Unum UK is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team. This is a highly visible role that sits at the heart of key business decisions, partnering with senior leaders across Distribution, Marketing, Finance, HR and Change functions. You'll provide commercial insight, challenge and financial leadership, helping shape strategy, optimise investment decisions and drive sustainable business performance.
As a trusted advisor to the business, you will provide insightful financial analysis, challenge and support senior stakeholders, and help shape strategic priorities. You'll play a key role in supporting strategic change and technology initiatives through financial leadership, investment appraisal and performance oversight. You will lead the production of monthly and quarterly management information, monitor key performance indicators and deliver clear, actionable insights that enable informed business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to provide financial insight, challenge and support across strategic initiatives and operational performance.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, influencing decision-making through insightful financial analysis, commercial challenge and strategic recommendations.
- Lead annual planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, incorporating market trends and economic factors into financial recommendations.
- Deliver high-quality management information, performance reporting and KPI analysis, translating financial data into meaningful business insight.
- Lead the financial evaluation of strategic initiatives, investment proposals and transformation programmes, ensuring robust business cases and clear measurement of benefits realisation.
- Advise senior stakeholders on the financial impacts, risks and opportunities associated with complex projects and business decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, optimise spend and maximise returns on strategic investments.
- Collaborate with Financial Reporting teams to ensure alignment between actual performance and forecasts, providing clear explanations of key variances.
- Support and influence business transformation, change and process improvement initiatives, driving greater efficiency, effectiveness and value across the organisation.
- Build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business, acting as a trusted finance partner and subject matter expert.
- Coach and support junior team members, contributing to a collaborative, high-performing and inclusive team environment.
What You'll Bring
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience in Business Partnering, FP&A or Commercial Finance roles.
- Proven experience partnering with Technology, Change and Transformation functions on complex programmes, portfolios or projects.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess financial performance and influence strategic decision-making.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the confidence and credibility to engage, challenge and influence senior leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build credibility quickly and drive outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information in a clear, concise and compelling way.
- A natural storyteller, able to translate financial data into meaningful business narratives and actionable recommendations.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with a focus on accuracy, efficiency and continuous improvement.
- Experience within insurance or financial services would be advantageous, as would a passion for transformation, innovation and process improvement.
Why Join Unum?
At Unum, you'll join a collaborative and forward-thinking finance team where you'll have the opportunity to influence senior decision-making, contribute to business transformation and play a key role in shaping the future performance of the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working in a dynamic environment and partnering with leaders to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Career Development
This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious finance professional looking to take the next step in their career. The breadth of stakeholder exposure, involvement in strategic investment decisions and participation in major business and transformation initiatives will provide exceptional development opportunities.
You'll work closely with senior leaders across the business, gaining visibility and influence beyond Finance while developing the skills and experience needed to progress into broader strategic finance roles within Unum.
Location
Hybrid working with offices in Dorking, London or Basingstoke.
Why join us?
At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.
As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions.
If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
Company:
Unum UKSkills Required
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- Significant post-qualification experience in Business Partnering, FP&A or Commercial Finance
- Proven experience partnering with Technology, Change and Transformation functions on complex programmes
- Experience leading annual planning, budgeting and forecasting processes
- Experience producing management information, KPI analysis and variance explanations
- Advanced Excel skills
- Advanced PowerPoint skills
- Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to present complex financial information clearly
- Experience within insurance or financial services
Unum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unum and has not been reviewed or approved by Unum.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as starting day one and include medical coverage along with employer-provided life, short-term disability, and long-term disability. On-site amenities like a gym and café are also part of the health-and-extras package in some locations.
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Retirement Support — The retirement offering is positioned as a standout through a high employer 401(k) contribution. This retirement support is repeatedly framed as a key draw within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is characterized as generous, with additional personal days and company closure days also described. The time-off program is presented as broader than many peers on paper.
Unum Insights
What We Do
Unum is a company of people serving people. A Fortune 500 company, we help millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace — benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures. Our products and services meet the needs of a diverse workforce that includes four generations, growing ethnic diversity and changing family dynamics. A strong commitment to social responsibility is one of Unum's core values. In fact, we place particular emphasis on contributing to positive change in the communities in which we live and work. Helping our communities become better is a natural extension of the commitment we make each and every day to our customers — to help employers manage their businesses and employees protect their families and livelihoods. We look forward to sharing industry news, community involvement, recognition and other info we hope you find interesting and informative. We encourage your comments and feedback so we can be a valuable resource for you and get to know you a little better.
