Finance Business Partner

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Simply Business is a digital insurance brokerage that specializes in one thing: protecting the businesses our customers are working hard to build. We’re doing this by simplifying the insurance-buying process for all small businesses, blending together a combination of technology, data, and insurance knowledge. Our proprietary technology platform allows small business owners to easily search and compare quotes from over 20 top-rated insurance providers, customize their coverage, and purchase and access their policies - all online.

Founded in the UK in 2005, Simply Business is an insurtech pioneer with nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses. Simply Business is passionate about building an outstanding product for our customers - one that empowers their entrepreneurial spirits.

More importantly, we’re doing it all while taking care of our people. We’ve consistently been named a best place to work, including most recently ranking in Built In’s 2025 Best Companies to Work for in the US (Top 100), and Best Places to Work in Boston.

We want team members who have the drive to challenge boundaries. If you’re smart and passionate about delivering brilliant customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for a high caliber individual to bolster our finance team as a Finance Business Partner. In this role, you will be empowered to work closely with business leaders to drive action to achieve our ambitious growth targets with sound financial judgement. This role will initially align to support our Direct-to-Consumer and Partnerships distribution channels, with the potential to rotate and expand to support other functional areas over time.

We are a team that thrives on deep and varied business knowledge combined with analytical expertise, and are looking for someone that excels in collaboration with stakeholders to challenge and help shape strategic direction.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will:

• Support your business partners in all aspects of financial performance and long term financial strategy, partnering to identify opportunities to accelerate growth and maximize value in a cost effective manner
• Lead in-depth analysis of business and financial trends to drive performance led discussions with business stakeholders
• Develop a deep understanding of the mSME property & casualty insurance market, helping to identify underlying market trends and craft solutions to improve our distribution proposition
• Partner with marketing and digital product to assess value-add channel optimizations and journey enhancements
• Manage partnership compensation models, collaborating with accounting team to ensure timely and accurate compensation within agreed timelines
• Develop financial models used for a variety of business needs, including CoA forecasting, evaluation of marketing investments and new partnership opportunities
• Oversee expense management for your respective functions, including contract review, expense reporting and regular headcount forecasting
• Develop strong relationships with functional leaders and key stakeholders, fostering tight collaboration to ensure financial goals are aligned to business objectives
• Lead the annual budgeting cycle for your assigned business functions, helping to set strategic priorities and develop financial targets on a short- and long-term horizon
• Coordinate with other areas of the finance organization to share and improve on best practices, tooling, control structure and to support various change initiatives

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrated ability…