General Insurance Finance Business Partner

End Date
Monday 12 October 2026

Salary Range
£67,023 - £74,470

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary
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Job Description

JOB TITLE: General Insurance Finance Business Partner

SALARY:  £67,023 - £81,917

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office.

About this opportunity

Do you enjoy turning complex financial information into clear commercial insight that influences business decisions?

We're looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our General Insurance (GI) Commercial Finance team. This is a highly visible role where you'll partner with senior business leaders to drive performance, support strategic decision-making, and deliver sustainable income and profit growth

You'll provide insightful financial analysis across P&L, Balance Sheet, Capital and Cash Flow, ensuring performance is clearly understood, effectively managed, and accurately reported. Through strong business partnering and high-quality management information, you'll help shape commercial decisions and influence business outcomes.

You'll also play a key role in developing plans, financial forecasting, and scenario modelling, challenging assumptions to ensure targets are achievable and long-term profitability is maintained. In addition, you'll support strategic initiatives and pricing decisions by assessing the financial impact of proposed changes and helping prioritise business investment and transformation activity.

What you'll be doing

- Providing financial and commercial modelling to support the delivery of initiatives, responding to the changing regulatory environment and support ongoing trading.
- Understand and articulate the revenue and/or cost drivers and use these to optimise business opportunities, manage change and drive improvement initiatives.
- Support investment projects & cases. Ensure interlock on all investment/project benefits, financial tracking and objectives.
- Support and deliver the 4YOP, Quarterly Forecasts, Rolling monthly forecasts and QBR outputs for GI.
- Work with Actuarial, Pricing & Commercial teams to build challenging and credible plans.
- Providing insight, development & reporting of new & existing forms of metrics to meet the needs of customers.
- Presenting to senior partners, ensuring that results and issues are well understood and explained in a way that is relevant to the business.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.

What you'll need

- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Finance professional with a consistent record gained in a range of roles, ideally with Business Partnering experience.
- Strong financial planning, forecasting and modelling capability.
- Experience influencing and building effective relationships with senior partners.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear business insights.
- Strong commercial acumen and the confidence to constructively challenge and influence decision-making using compelling arguments.
- A proven track record of delivering results and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience identifying financial risks and opportunities and translating analysis into practical recommendations.

And any experience of these would be really useful

- Experience within General Insurance or a broader insurance environment.
- Knowledge of General Insurance financial processes, products and performance drivers.
- Experience working closely with Pricing, Commercial or Actuarial teams.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation, investment or strategic change programmes.
- Experience in Power Platform tools (e.g., Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate)

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.​

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.​

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.​

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.​

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: ​

- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%​
- An annual performance-related bonus​
- Share schemes including free shares​
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as ​discounted shopping​
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top​
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental ​leave policies​

Like what you hear? Join us!​

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.