Job Introduction

Package: Up to £55,000 (plus up to 15% bonus)

Location: Leeds or London (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Join the world's leading Medical Defence Organisation, Medical Protection Society, as a Finance Business Partner and be at the forefront of shaping our financial strategy and sustainability.

As the Opex Finance Business Partner, you will be providing financial support across all areas of the business. You'll conduct financial analysis, offer valuable insights, and provide tools that challenge conventional thinking, empowering informed decision-making. By doing so, you will contribute to MPS’ strategy, performance, and financial sustainability.

You will also play a critical role in cost control by ensuring accurate reporting and variance analysis for actuals, planning and forecasting. Additionally, you will identify and communicate risks and opportunities, as well as provide strategic support for leaders.

Reporting to the Senior FP&A manager, this role presents a unique opportunity to work closely with divisional leaders as a trusted advisor, providing real-time support. As a central point of contact for Group Finance, you'll influence decision-making and add significant value through financial planning and analysis activities.

We are seeking a finance professional with successful track record of business partnering particularly in cost management. If you have an inquisitive nature, are confident to challenge the status quo, enjoy delving deep into financial and business performance data, and driving informed and strategic decisions to achieve organisational goals, then we want to hear from you!

Role Responsibility

As our Opex Finance Business Partner, you will:

• Partner with leadership teams to provide information, insight and challenge to business owners to assist them to manage performance vs targets.
• Contribute on the end-to-end development and delivery of multi-year planning and forecasting processes across the organisation, linked to the MPS strategy.
• Support the development and delivery of the strategy for MPS, incorporating aspects including growth, cost and quality.
• Ongoing management of budgets by providing challenge to spend and variance analysis to inform leadership and the Executive Team of financial performance against plan and return on investment.
• Develop forward-looking financial reporting for the organisation, identifying risks and opportunities and associated actions to mitigate/maximise
• Partner with financial reporting team to deliver month end results with high quality insights
• Create/leverage system, data, report and process to enable cost transparency and forward looking perspective
• Lead annual allocation driver review/ cost base deep dive
• Manage Anaplan process for Opex and allocation
• Provide education and promote awareness within business on good financial practices

The Ideal Candidate

Your problem-solving skills and proactive approach will be instrumental in identifying and implementing cost efficiency improvement opportunities, collaborating with cross-functional teams utilising financial and non-financial data to achieve impactful results.

We’re looking for curiosity – someone who is both keen and quick to learn our complex global organisation. You’ll also come with a strategic mindset, strong business partnering skills and a keen eye for detail.

Specifically, we are looking for

• Qualified finance professional with Finance Business Partner experience in Opex management
•  Experience working directly with cost centre owners to develop forecast and budget and analysing month end performance, identifying risk and opportunities and driving actions to deliver cost within budget
• Experience in managing planning tools and managing Opex forecasting and budgeting process
• Self starter who looks for continuous improvement on both process and reporting tools
• Ability to articulate clearly financial performance and practices to non financial business partners

Not essential but beneficial to the role, would proficiency with BI tools and expertise of Anaplan (MPS’ financial planning tool) and having experience working in a global organisation.

If the ideal candidate sounds like you, why not join us at MPS and be part of a dynamic team that values innovation, collaboration, and driving success through continuous improvement and strategic thinking. If you're ready to make a real impact and elevate your finance career, apply now and join the team!

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, and we encourage you to apply even if you feel you do not match 100% of the technical requirements. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and strive to create a work environment which ensures everyone can be heard.

Package Description

• Up to 15% discretionary annual bonus
• 11% pension contribution (3% from you, 8% from us optional additional matched 3% contributions, e.g. 6% from you, 11% from us)
• 25 days annual leave plus flexible bank holidays (option to buy/sell 5 days)
• Private Medical Cover
• Career development and progression opportunities – 22% of our vacancies in 2023 were filled internally
• A truly flexible hybrid-working arrangement (take a look at below to find out more about how we work)
• A culture that promotes inclusivity, wellbeing and rewards hard work
• Paid volunteering day
• Car Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• 6x salary death in service
• A personal GP service enabling you to get a video consultation with a NHS-registered private GP
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of shopping discounts from major high-street retailers

About the Company

The Medical Protection Society Ltd (MPS) is the world’s leading protection organisation for Doctors, Dentists and healthcare professionals. We protect and support the professional interests of almost 300,000 members around the world.

We are a not-for-profit organisation, meaning member’s subscriptions are either invested into bettering the organisation, colleagues and products, or kept safe should members require support for complaints or claims arising from professional practice.

Our philosophy is to support safe practice in medicine and dentistry by helping to avert problems in the first place. We also actively campaign for regulatory and legal reforms that benefit members and the wider healthcare professions.

To do this, we need colleagues who are trusted and supported to deliver their best work, whether that be through leadership development, fully funded training courses or peer-to-peer support. We want colleagues to feel empowered to deliver positive change, display ambition to push themselves and be determined when faced with a challenge, whilst ensuring members best interests are at the core.

Medical Protection Society