Finance Business Partner, Expenses

You will combine hands-on expense FP&A with commercially focused business partnering, using financial and operational insight to support and challenge decision-making across Apollo. You will take ownership of expense planning, forecasting, cost allocation and management reporting, while working directly with budget owners to understand cost drivers, test assumptions and turn analysis into practical recommendations.

This role would suit someone who enjoys getting into the detail of financial data but can also look beyond the numbers, build credible stakeholder relationships and explain what the analysis means for the busines

• →Produce annual expense budgets, forecasts and regular performance reporting across Apollo and its managed syndicates.
• →Analyse actual expenditure against plan, explain key variances and identify emerging risks or opportunities.
• →Work with budget owners to understand their plans, cost drivers and resource requirements.
• →Provide clear financial analysis and recommendations to support expenditure and investment decisions.
• →Produce expense management information across departments, business classes, pillars and Years of Account.
• →Maintain cost allocation models, supporting methodology and process documentation.
• →Support business cases, scenario analysis and investment appraisal for material expenditure.
• →Help monitor the financial and non-financial benefits of approved investment.
• →Improve planning, forecasting and reporting processes, including the development and maintenance of models in Anaplan.

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• A qualified accountant with strong experience in expense planning, forecasting and analysis.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identify the commercial implications behind financial results.
• Experience producing clear management information, variance analysis and forward-looking financial insight.
• The confidence to question assumptions and discuss expenditure with budget owners and senior stakeholders.
• The ability to explain complex financial information clearly and turn analysis into practical recommendations.
• Experience supporting business cases, scenario analysis or investment appraisal.
• Experience using financial planning and forecasting tools. Knowledge of Anaplan would be beneficial.
• Strong communication, organisation and stakeholder-management skills.