Your purpose in the role  

Insights is a global learning and development company working in partnership with leading organisations worldwide. Our preference-based learning solutions have positively impacted millions of people, helping our customers transform their individuals, teams, and entire organisations. To support sustainable, aligned, and scalable global growth, we are evolving our processes, technology, and products at an operational level. 

To enable the Global Finance Team to enhance its support to the business and operate effectively, the Finance Business Partner must be a highly skilled and collaborative finance professional. The role will partner closely with our Operational functions to help drive profitable revenue growth, effective cost management, and informed decision-making. 

In addition, the role will contribute to the preparation of the group's monthly management accounts and play a critical role in the monthly and annual planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycles. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Partner strategically with the Functional Executive members and Senior Leadership Teams to help drive global profitable growth and cost management, delivering insightful analyses and compelling narratives to help inform decision-making. 
• Develop and monitor revenue and cost KPI metrics, with a dedicated focus on monitoring and managing functional spend. 
• Serve as a trusted adviser to the leadership community, assisting in revenue and cost strategy through comprehensive trend, industry, KPI and forecasting analysis to identify and unlock future growth opportunities. 
• Drive accurate revenue and cost forecasting as part of the group's monthly/quarterly / rolling forecast process. 
• Help drive the budget process, ensuring key targets are met in line with the business planning timetable. 
• Assist in the enhancement of reporting capabilities through the implementation of business intelligence reporting and minimising manual intervention by automation. 
• Help with the continuous improvement process to ensure our systems and processes aid best-in-class reporting and analyses. 
• Focus on the continuous improvement of variance and trend analysis reporting, using insights to inform and drive corrective actions across the business. 
• Contribute to Strategic Programme initiatives as a subject matter expert, as required, along with any other ad hoc reporting and revenue-related projects.  
• Drive the reduction of all non-value-add activity across functions and within existing processes. 
• Document and formalise finance processes, controls, timetables and responsibilities. 

How will you do this  

• Provide unique insights into performance trends, identifying future growth and cost management opportunities. 
• Produce monthly/quarterly financial reporting that provides our Executive team and senior leadership with outstanding financial insight into our business opportunities, strengths and weaknesses.  
• You will have an excellent working knowledge of a range of financial processes with a clear vision and understanding of what best-in-class looks like.  
• Build upon a robust, integrated forecasting process that provides an accurate, forward-looking view of our business performance, and proactively identifies and manages opportunities and issues.  
• Build and maintain strong relationships across all levels of the business.  
• You will use your strong commercial awareness to provide decision support to Senior leadership.  
• You will proactively identify and take the lead to realise process and system improvement opportunities to ensure the seamless delivery of our financial services. 

How you’ll show up  

• A positive collaborator and cross-functional worker who can develop key relationships.  
• Possess and demonstrate an understanding of world-class finance and business processes and systems.  
• Always business aligned by ensuring we are achieving strategic and operational objectives.  
• You’ll have strong analytical skills, with drive, determination and a 'can-do' attitude.  
• You’ll be self-motivated and can organise your own workload, complete multiple tasks on time in a dynamic, changing environment.  
• Inspired and excited by self-development. 
• Always be curious and constantly looking for improvements and value-add. 
• A driven and positive advocate for change and the continuous improvement agenda.  

Experience and Skills  

• A professional accountancy qualification is preferred (CIMA, ACCA, ICAS or equivalent). 
• A good track record of financial business partnering with Executive Teams and Senior Management. 
• Strong Excel modelling skills (complex formulas) and highly proficient in working with large volumes of data. 
• Extensive Finance systems experience would be advantageous – Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365.  
• Strong experience working in a customer-focused environment.  
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to achieve buy-in from various stakeholders and collaborate with other team members. 
• The ability to analyse large, complex data sets, articulating clear, insight-led recommendations to stakeholders. 
• Problem-solving, questioning mind-set, and always thinking about continuous improvement.  
• Organised and able to plan to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes.  

How you’ll show up  

• A positive collaborator and cross-functional worker who can develop key relationships.  
• Possess and demonstrate an understanding of world-class finance and business processes and systems.  
• Always business aligned by ensuring we are achieving strategic and operational objectives.  
• You’ll have strong analytical skills, with drive, determination and a 'can-do' attitude.  
• You’ll be self-motivated and can organise your own workload, complete multiple tasks on time in a dynamic, changing environment.  
• Inspired and excited by self-development. 
• Always be curious and constantly looking for improvements and value-add. 
• A driven and positive advocate for change and the continuous improvement agenda.  

Experience and Skills  

• A professional accountancy qualification is preferred (CIMA, ACCA, ICAS or equivalent). 
• A good track record of financial business partnering with Executive Teams and Senior Management. 
• Strong Excel modelling skills (complex formulas) and highly proficient in working with large volumes of data. 
• Extensive Finance systems experience would be advantageous – Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365.  
• Strong experience working in a customer-focused environment.  
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to achieve buy-in from various stakeholders and collaborate with other team members. 
• The ability to analyse large, complex data sets, articulating clear, insight-led recommendations to stakeholders. 
• Problem-solving, questioning mind-set, and always thinking about continuous improvement.  
• Organised and able to plan to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes.  

Everyone is welcome at Insights. We’re dedicated to creating a space where you belong — that means accepting you for who you are now and supporting you on your journey towards whoever you want to become.

Our colourful solutions help people see themselves and others in a new light and we love encouraging our diverse global community to experience the transformational power of Insights Discovery. Through listening and learning, we will continue to foster the connections that matter to build a more inclusive culture.

It is in our nature to nurture. We have developed an organisation which puts care for our people, inclusion, belonging and wellbeing at the heart of our approach. We’re strengthened by a community where we work together to co-create a culture that celebrates difference and welcomes everybody.

We love learning. We want to be better tomorrow than we are today and we’re up for the journey. Unapologetically human, undoubtedly individual. Colourful to our core.

Read more about inclusivity at Insights via the vacancy page on our website: https://www.insights.com/inclusively-insights/