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About the Role

The Head of Planning & Forecasting leads the planning and forecasting capability within the Group FP&A Centre of Excellence, defining and governing how financial planning and forecasting are delivered across the Group to ensure consistency, robustness, and support effective decision-making. This role is accountable for establishing planning frameworks, improving forecast accuracy, and ensuring clear alignment between planning, forecasting, and performance management outputs.

Responsibilities

Lead planning & forecasting across the Group
Accountable for the delivery of the Group-wide annual business planning process, including governance, timelines, and coordination across business units
Responsible for quarterly forecasting and rolling reforecast processes, ensuring outputs are consistent, accurate, and aligned to business performance
Defines and embeds driver-based planning methodologies across the organisation
Challenges assumptions with senior stakeholders to improve the quality and robustness of financial plans
Ensures scenario analysis, stress testing, and sensitivity modelling are embedded within planning processes
Supports long-term planning, ensuring alignment with capital requirements, risk considerations, and actuarial assumptions
Acts as Group process owner for planning and forecasting, setting standards, governance, and policies
Drives standardisation and simplification of planning processes across business units
Improves forecast accuracy and transparency through enhanced modelling, data, and assumptions
Leverages systems and automation to improve efficiency and reduce manual activity
Own the integration between planning outputs and management information, ensuring consistency between plan and forecast outputs.
Partner with the Performance Management Team to align KPI definitions, assumptions and reporting structures.
Ensure MI outputs reflect key business drivers and provide a clear link to forecast assumptions.
Drive improvements in clarity, consistency and efficiency of MI processes, with a focus on forward-looking insight and decision support.

Requirements

Strong FP&A leadership experience with deep expertise in financial modelling, planning and forecasting.
Experience in insurance or financial services is preferred.
Strong understanding of finance processes within a complex organisational environment.
Experience of off-shoring processes is preferred.
Excellent analytical capability, with the ability to interpret financial data and translate it into clear business insight.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and build credibility with senior leaders.
Experience of driving process improvement and supporting change within finance environments.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.
High level of attention to detail, sound judgement and strong commercial awareness.
Experience of using financial systems, planning tools and data analytics to support decision-making.
Proactive and independent approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.

Skills

Financial modelling
Planning
Forecasting
Financial systems
Planning tools
Data analytics
Stakeholder management
Process improvement
Change management
Written communication
Verbal communication
Analytical capability
Commercial awareness

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Education Level

Degree level education
Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

About the Company

As an international specialist insurer, Hiscox is selective and focuses on key areas of expertise and strength.
The culture encourages challenging convention and looking for better ways of doing things.
Hiscox ensures the unique and the interesting, and searches for the same in talented people.
Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other.
The company believes in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong.
Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.
Hiscox is a solid, yet slightly contrary business that likes to do things differently and constantly seeks to evolve.
With roots going back to 1901, Hiscox is ambitious and going places.

Equal Opportunity

At Hiscox we care about our people.
We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
Working life does not always have to be in the office so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.
This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.