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Job Description:

Lead the Strategic Finance work to build a centre of excellence for financial analysis that enables confident strategic decision-making, directly supports the delivery of Beazley's corporate strategy.

Job Responsibility:

  • Drive cross-departmental collaboration, embodying and role-modelling 'One Finance'
  • Ensure close collaboration between Capital & Strategic Finance and: Financial Performance, Capital Management, Reporting Accounting & Tax, and the Executive Committee/Boards
  • Communicate how capital and financial strategies enable execution of corporate priorities and enhance competitive advantage
  • Responsible for supporting the development & execution of Beazley's medium to long-term financial strategies that align with the company's overall goals
  • Providing strategic and actionable recommendations to key stakeholders
  • Developing comprehensive, integrated financial plans that support business growth, innovation, and sustainability
  • Proposing financial targets, identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) to help track progress against Beazley's strategic initiatives
  • Creating roadmaps to achieve these goals especially through aligning the annual business plan with the medium/long term strategic plan
  • Embed value-based decision-making frameworks (e.g., RORAC, economic profit) into planning and performance management
  • Ensure financial strategies are explicitly aligned with Beazley's long-term strategic objectives and shareholder value creation goals
  • Conducting scenario analyses to prepare for potential future events and uncertainties
  • Support the execution of Beazley's Financial Strategy through identification of profitable business growth and earlier identification of underperforming lines of business
  • Supporting the development of solvency forecasts (including stress & scenario testing to guide decision making)
  • Capital allocation/management proposals
  • Assisting on any capital related activities, including around Beazley's capital structure
  • Continuously analysing market trends, economic conditions, and competitive landscapes to identify opportunities and threats
  • Develop tools and insights to identify and prioritize value creation opportunities across portfolios, products, and geographies

Requirements:

  • University degree and professional accounting or actuarial qualification
  • Extensive experience in the insurance industry
  • Extensive post qualification experience
  • Proactively seeks to improve processes, raising quality and productivity through efficiencies or by implementing best-in-class solutions
  • Highly organised with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Ability to understand, advise and deliver on initiatives to senior management and executive level
  • Ability to simplify, analyse and explain complex issues
  • Ability to design and implement complex models
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail
  • Strategic thinker with a proactive and results-driven mindset
  • Strong capability in linking financial analysis to enterprise strategy and shareholder value creation
  • Outcome focussed, self-motivated, very flexible and enthusiastic
  • Professional and approachable with can-do attitude to successfully interact with senior management/colleagues/external suppliers
  • Collaborative
  • Diplomatic

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Job Posted:
May 14, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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