AXA UK's Expense Partnering team support our Retail, Commercial and Health business units. As an Expense Partner, you'll build strong relationships with business stakeholders to develop functional cost base insight and influence decision making. This will include enabling achievement of in-year budgets and long-term cost and profitability goals. Strong relationship management, collaboration and team working skills will be key to your success. 

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home at either our Bristol, Bolton or Glasgow office, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead expense partnering for the fast-moving Health/ Retail/ Commercial functions, where your insight and influence will have a material impact on key business outcomes including growth, profitability and customer servicing.
• Develop great working relationships with key stakeholders including the Finance Director and business unit execs for the function.
• Deliver a first-class partnering support for the function, turning numbers and data into compelling business insight and storyboards, and influence at all levels to drive achievement of both cost management and wider business strategic goals.
• Influence leadership and Financial Directors (FDs) to ensure they role model and embed a cost-conscious culture across the function and actively manage spend.
• Supplement standard cost reporting produced by the central expense reporting team with insight and ad-hoc cost base analysis.
• Take responsibility for leading interaction and negotiation with the function to ensure budget and forecast targets are hit.
• Work with the function to agree the cost allocation drivers for each cost centre within their remit, including allocations to channel/ product, admin, acquisition and claims handling, and fixed/ variable.
• Support reforecasting and reprioritisation of the portfolio on an agile basis.
• Track portfolio costs and benefits, including preparation of analysis for the local Change Board, and give early warning if projects are not delivering as expected, to enable corrective action.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified.
• Strong relationship management, analytical, negotiating and influencing skills.
• Experience of presenting to a senior audience, whether on-line or in person.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written with the ability to work at the most senior levels of organisations.
• Proactive, energetic and versatile with a “can do” approach.
• Proven ability to deliver under pressure and work to tight deadlines.
• Integrity to handle highly confidential data.
• Good knowledge of cost management including budgeting, forecasting and savings realisation.
• Experience of working within the insurance industry or financial services.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £50,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Gym benefits

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Who we are:

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.