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Lead Expense Business Partner

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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

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Job Posted:
March 20, 2026

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