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Provide strategic financial challenge and insight to support our life insurance, pension and investment business, making well‑informed business decisions and driving performance in a fast‑changing, competitive market.
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Advance your career in a supporting and collaborative environment with excellent development opportunities.
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Hybrid working with 60% working from home and 40% in our Head Office in Stratford-upon-Avon.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Department here at NFU Mutual. You’ll contribute to the development of the long-term direction of NFUM through partnering, planning and influencing across our life, pensions and investments business. Working closely with the senior management team the role will provide challenge, insight and analysis enabling informed decisions on sales, expenses and profitability to help deliver the Group’s long-term strategic objectives. In addition, you will lead and develop a small team of 4, consisting of a combination of finance and non-finance professionals.
You’ll partner, influence and challenge the business to ensure the financial implications of business decisions and change are fully considered and to contribute commercial insight and financial best practice to business performance management. The role will focus on our life insurance, pensions and investment business, supporting the business to achieve its ambitions in a competitive and evolving market.
You’ll also build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of business stakeholders, including senior leaders, to understand business dynamics and ensure the effective delivery of objectives.
As part of the management team, you’ll identify, propose and facilitate the delivery of improvements to the partnering, planning and analysis proposition, leveraging emerging technology to enhance customer experience and develop excellence in Financial Planning & Analysis.
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in managing financial performance and delivering insights that shape strategic decision-making. Drawing on your financial planning and analysis experience, you will analyse and report on sales and expense trends and overall profitability, using your commercial insight to challenge technical stakeholders around the business. Your understanding of the life insurance, pensions and investments market will be invaluable as you provide informed recommendations and challenge thinking.
You will have strong collaboration skills, with the confidence to challenge subject matter experts e.g. Actuaries in a variety of technical assumptions, such as the value of long-term business including expenses and policy persistency. Your ability to translate complex data into actionable insights through data visualisation and storytelling will enable you to distil key messages for a senior audience. You will also be able to think strategically, working with the business towards the delivery of our 2035 strategy, and assessing how future initiatives will impact key metrics and future forecasts.
You’ll work closely with senior leaders, ensuring your insights are clear, compelling, and actionable. By fostering collaboration and applying your expertise, you will play a vital role in shaping NFU Mutual’s financial strategy and performance. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll be adept at driving process improvement and managing change effectively.
To join our team, you’ll also have;
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A recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or equivalent professional qualification.
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Proven leadership experience with the ability to manage and lead teams.
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Strong IT skills to include data manipulation skills, with reference to MS Office, Power BI and Workday Adaptive.
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Strong analytical skills, ability to challenge thinking, and a problem-solving mindset to allow you to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
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The capability to build, review, and adapt models that forecast key business metrics, including the company’s medium-term plan.
At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
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Salary – up to £80,000 depending on experience
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Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
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Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
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28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
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A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
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Private medical insurance + options to add family members
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Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
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£20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
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Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
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Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
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Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
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Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
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Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
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Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.
Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.
Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.
