Job Description
About MIB
At MIB our people are passionate about making roads safer by getting uninsured and hit-and-run drivers off our roads. Working in partnership with the Police, Insurers and Government our collective aim is to make it a thing of the past but, until that’s accomplished, we’re here to compensate victims quickly, fairly and compassionately.
Last year we helped more than 34,000 people struck by uninsured and hit-and-run drivers and paid over £400 million in compensation to support victims rebuild their lives.
About the role
At the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB), we're looking for an exceptional finance leader to take on the pivotal role of Finance & Business Performance Director. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the heart of the organisation, influencing strategic direction, driving enterprise-wide performance and enabling better business decisions through meaningful insight.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, you'll translate organisational strategy into measurable outcomes, providing the financial leadership, performance intelligence and commercial insight that help shape the future of MIB. Working closely with the Executive team, you'll lead the integration of financial, operational and strategic performance, ensuring decision-making is informed, data-driven and action-focused.
This role goes beyond finance. You'll champion a high-performance culture, identify opportunities and risks, and drive lasting organisational impact through robust performance management, business intelligence and strategic leadership. If you're a commercially astute leader with the vision to turn insight into action and strategy into results, we'd love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
Enterprise performance and Insight
- Lead the organisation’s enterprise performance framework, ensuring strategy is translated into clear outcomes, priorities and delivery plans.
- Provide high-quality insight, analysis and challenge to Executive and senior leaders, supporting evidence-based decision-making.
- Integrate financial, operational and performance data to support effective planning, prioritisation and resource allocation.
- Identify performance risks, opportunities and systemic issues, ensuring insight leads to action and accountability.
Strategic and Commercial Leadership
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to the Executive team, contributing to the development of short, medium and long-term business strategy.
- Strengthen commercial thinking and financial acumen across the organisation, embedding a disciplined, value focused mindset.
- Challenge business cases, investment decisions and delivery plans to ensure alignment with strategic priorities and efficient use of resources.
- Advise the Executive on business performance, trade-offs and strategic choices in a complex and regulated environment.
Governance and Performance Management
- Strengthen governance, consistency and discipline in performance management, planning and reporting.
- Lead enterprise performance review forums, enabling clarity, transparency and timely decision-making.
- Work across the enabling functions to ensure advice, frameworks and cultural tone balance delivery and innovation with control.
- Ensure performance reporting is clear, relevant and impactful, translating complex information into accessible insights.
Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, develop and mentor a high performing team across business partnering, performance and insight functions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and business partnership.
- Model inclusive, enterprise leadership behaviours and set a strong standard for cross organisational working.
Financial Oversight and External engagement
- Provide oversight of financial management, working closely with the Financial Controller to ensure robust controls, compliance and assurance.
- Support statutory reporting, audit processes and regulatory requirements as required.
- Support the CFO to effectively manage Board relationships and deputise for CFO at Board or ExCo as required.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners, advisors and stakeholders, bringing external insight and best practice into the organisation
Skills and Experience
- Fully qualified finance professional with a strong commitment to professional development.
- Significant experience operating at senior, enterprise level within complex, regulated or data led organisations.
- Deep expertise in business performance management, strategy, finance and analytics.
- Proven ability to integrate financial and operational insight to drive organisational performance.
- Strong leadership capability, with experience building and leading high performing, specialist teams.
- Highly credible communicator, able to influence, challenge constructively and build trust at Executive and Board level.
- Comfortable working with complexity, ambiguity and competing priorities, exercising sound judgement and resilience.
Desirable
- Experience leading organisational change or transformation.
- Sector experience within financial services, insurance or similarly regulated environments.
Job Title: Finance and Business Performance Director
Salary: Circa £130k
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
Office Location: Milton Keynes
Job Type: Permanent
IT kit supplied to you
£320 (before tax) start up allowance
Hybrid working (2 days in the office per week) from our Milton Keynes office, MK14
Other Benefits include:
Contributory Group Stakeholder Personal pension scheme
Life Assurance
Employee Incentive Scheme
27 days holiday (plus public holidays)
Holiday purchase scheme
Sports and Social Club
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
Free access to online tools to support mental and physical health
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
1 volunteer day each year and charity matched funding scheme
We believe in a workplace where everyone can be themselves. Through our different ideas, personalities and experiences, we redefine what is possible every day. And regardless of your colour, age, race, gender, sexual orientation or anything else you consider yourself to be, there is a place for you at MIB. A place where you can bring your best self to work every day.
So, if you think big, love a challenge and want to make a difference to people’s lives, we want to hear from you.
We aim to keep this advert open until the closing date, but on occasion we may close it early if application numbers are high
MIB is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1946 on the belief that no-one whose life had been changed by an uninsured driver should be left without the support they deserve.
Today that has grown into a community of people and organisations tirelessly working to protect people from the devastation of uninsured and hit-and-run driving. We do it by compensating victims quickly, fairly and compassionately, and getting uninsured and hit-and-run drivers off our roads until it becomes a thing of the past.
Our work and impact stretch further too. We manage services for the insurance industry and government to help keep costs down for UK motorists, and we manage the Insurance Fraud Bureau, which brings together insurers, partners and law-enforcement agencies in the fight against fraud.
We want our people to come into work each day with a smile on their face, excited by the work they do and dedicated to making a difference to society. We have 400 people who work in a hybrid way from our newly refurbished office based in Linford Wood, MK and we believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their best self to work every day.