### **Description** **New Opportunity Varied Role** Keoghs, the Legal Solutions Division of the Davies Group, are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner to report to the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis This role is at the heart of the finance function giving an enthusiastic individual the opportunity to gain a full understanding of the organisation and to deliver the key decision makers with the financial information to make informed decisions. This is an interesting, varied and challenging role that will involve providing the operational teams within Keoghs with a high standard of financial support. This will cover areas such providing pricing support for the submission of tenders, preparation of budgets at a detailed level and providing feedback on monthly performance to the Operational Leads. #INDUKI ### **Key Responsibilities** Providing support to the Operations Directors and BUDs to manage their parts of the business, identifying opportunities, and providing challenge, to enhance each team's gross margin Assisting the operational teams in bids and tenders, including support to propose pricing and provision of challenge in pricing discussions to ensure the required gross margin in maintained Production of monthly financial reporting in accordance with SLAs for both the Keoghs Exec and Davies Head Office. Provision of regular forecasts and annual budgets of Operational performance. To assist the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis in any ad hoc projects as required. ### **Skills, Knowledge and Expertise** A strong academic background and the holder of a recognised accountancy qualification, such as ACA, CIMA, ACCA. Demonstrable experience of: * Proven track record of Business Partnering and therefore having the ability to communicate with non-financial colleagues. * Experience of owning pricing and tenders across multiple products and communicating pricing up to CEO level. * Planning and executing operational and sales budgets. * A high level of IT literacy including high proficiency in MS Excel. * Data manipulation skills (Power BI, VBA, Excel on similar) ### **Benefits** * Davies Incentive Plan * 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy \& sell 3 days) * Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining. * Simply Health Care Cash Plan * WeCare -- 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing \& healthy living and financial \& legal wellbeing * Death in Service * Critical Illness Cover * PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance) * Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer * Employee Resource Groups * Employee Volunteering Programme * Cycle to Work Scheme\* * Tech Scheme\* * Season Ticket Loan\* * Gym Flex\* * Access to Online Discount Sites * Discounted Gourmet Society Membership * Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide * Discounts at local retail outlets * after successfully completing probation ### **About Keoghs** Keoghs is the leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector. We manage more than £1bn worth of insurer claims and resolve in excess of 100,000 claims per year working in partnership with leading insurers, MGAs, brokers, corporates and the public sector. With more than 50 years' experience we have an in-depth understanding of the insurance claims process, enabling us to contain and lower litigation rates, shorten claims lifecycles and reduce overall claims costs. We combine proven processes, technology and low cost infrastructure with extensive legal and insurance market knowledge. This enables us to create individual solutions for each of our clients that match their requirements in terms of quality, performance and value for money. We invest heavily in specialised services, technology and innovation for our insurance clients, and we are the first to launch a true artificial intelligence (AI) insurance lawyer. Through our proprietary AI lawyer, Lauri, we've transformed the claims handling process for low-value personal injury claims; we've reduced claim lifecycles and reduced costs for our clients. Supported by commercial acumen and innovative products, Keoghs leads the way in providing legal solutions to the insurance industry.