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Specialist insurance company Beazley is seeking a Lead Business Partner to manage the companies expenses ratio within its Finance function and work closely with a wide range of business stakeholders. This role is a strategically focused role focusing on optimising and managing Beazley's investment and cost to align with strategic goals, improve efficiency, and drive cost savings. This role involves developing expense management strategies, analysing spending patterns, identifying opportunities for reduction, and working with the Head of Expense Accounting in implementing new processes to improve control over resources.
Job Responsibility:
Take on significant leadership and strategic responsibility relating to performance management team representing finance across various committees, boards and forums
Foster a culture that values employee experience, empowerment and wellbeing alongside amplifying the team’s overall capabilities
Develop and lead a team with a focus on customer service to provide best in class service
Ensure that all employees have the knowledge and skills necessary to perform effectively in their given roles
Provide direct support to decision makers
Build strong relationships with executives and business unit leaders
Enable rapid improvement in service and support via a continuous feedback loop with all stakeholders
Effectively communicate Performance Management perspectives to stakeholders
Assist in identifying performance issues and provide help in course-correcting
Provide continuous coaching to stakeholders
Challenge stakeholders’ assumptions to reduce bias and introduce finance perspective
Assist with improving stakeholders' financial data literacy
Monitor leading indicators to identify initiative delivery risks and operational performance gaps
Working with Beazley’s strategy teams lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive expense management strategy
Working with the Head of Expense Management analyse spending patterns, identify trends, and forecast future expenses
Establish metrics and targets for expense control and efficiency
Identify and implement cost-saving measures
Monitor and analyse spending against budget and identify areas for improvement
Own and deliver the expense planning process in concert with the Financial planning team
Provide FP&A expertise to ensure stakeholders understand their results and impact on financial performance
Ensure the team provides expert review points as requested across key companywide reporting
Utilise new technology to continue to enhance the current global offering
Work with the change team to ensure that decision support tools provide actionable advice
Be the “voice of the internal customer” in meetings with Performance Management and technology and change teams
Advocate for, and assist in developing, change management strategies
Articulate and demonstrate the value of decision support tool utilisation
Assist in defining success criteria for Performance Management tools and establishing measurable business and technical metrics
Requirements:
Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
Experience of the insurance market, preferably Lloyd’s
Experience of FP&A / business partnering roles within complex insurance organisations and knowledge of accounting policies adopted
Coaching & leadership skills
Stakeholder management and relationship building
Customer focus with strong attention to detail
Understanding of controls frameworks including documentation
Experience of a deadline driven environment
Analytical / Problem solving / Decision making
Creativity / Innovation
What we offer:
Competitive salary and discretionary bonus
Commuting reimbursement
Free in-office lunch
Excellent parental leave
Financial physical and mental wellbeing contributions