This is an exciting opportunity to work in an organisation-wide transformation program, working closely within a cross-functional team. This role reports to the workstream lead.
As Admiral has grown, so has complexity in its organisation structure, processes, and platforms. The Fit to Compete programme aims to analyse these areas across the business and identify opportunities for efficiency.
The Strategic Efficiency Business Partners will be a vital member of the Fit to Compete team, owning the monitoring and governance of in-flight efficiency initiatives and ensuring the team has the input necessary to develop Steering ready actionable insights. They will lead coordination with their assigned functional areas and collaborate with a large variety of stakeholders across their function to gather information and validate findings.
The role is suitable for someone who enjoys working with change initiatives. To be a successful candidate you should have great problem solving, strong stakeholder management, and experience/familiarity with HR concepts.
Main Duties:
- Develop deep understanding of ongoing functional initiatives, trajectory, drivers, risks, and dependencies.
- Act as functional SME and own relationship with stakeholders within function.
- Monitor and analyse downstream impact of initiatives, identifying variances and opportunities.
- Advise F2C (Fit to Compete) team on risks and mitigation strategies.
- Own functional data and support collaboration with Finance and HR teams to ensure alignment.
- Prepare monthly progress updates to facilitate governance and executive reporting.
- Pro-actively align key stakeholders in functional areas.
- Resolve complex issues that will occur when working with different areas of the business, each with it’s own set of challenges and opportunities.
Skills and Experience:
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with structured and unstructured data.
- Comfort in using partial data sets to support directionally correct analysis.
- A high degree of personal initiative, high level of commitment and an ability to work under time pressure.
- Experience with financial statements and modelling.
- Curious mindset with drive to dig deeper behind the figures to uncover drivers.
- Comfort with ambiguity.
- Act as critical friend for assigned areas, advising on and validating data/ information shared.
- A willingness to pro-actively reach out to stakeholders and seek alternative solutions to get things moving.
- An openness to look beyond Admiral and suggest best practices.
- Experience in a Financial Services Organisation.
Please note: This is a hybrid role, requiring attendance at our Cardiff office twice per week.
Interview Process
2 Stage Interview - 1st stage on Microsoft Teams, 2nd stage in our Cardiff office.
Admiral: Where You Can
We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.
Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.
We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.
Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.
