Job Description

The focus of the role is to support the business in its commercial activities, to help to deliver a platform for profitable growth within Insurance by ensuring the business has the tools and insight to make decisions and respond to trends quickly.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to financial analysis, commercial and operational support for the Insurance businesses.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide commercial support on Insurance strategy and project workstreams
• Supply financial analysis to support business cases and initiatives
• Assist the Finance Business Partner in supporting the Insurance CFO & Strategy Director on specific projects
• Recommend actions to improve business value
• Development of trading dashboards to supply rapid insight and drive decision making
• Benefit analysis and tracking of commercial initiatives
• Drive and challenge the inputs to forecast, budget and 5 year planning processes, acting as a bridge between the business and the Insurance FP&A team
• Alignment of commercial initiatives with the broking/ underwriting commercial finance team and provision of joint insurance insight, ensuring consistency of data within Insurance
• Preparation of committee, steering group and board papers as needed
• Ad hoc support on commercial projects for the insurance business

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Good Excel skills An affinity for financial modelling Strong management accounting knowledge Previous experience working in the insurance industry, with understanding of broker and/or underwriting business model ACCA / CIMA / ACA part or newly qualified Thrive in a fast-paced environment while keeping attention to detail Able to multi-task and manage multiple projects at one time Excellent communication and organisational skills Ability to use own initiative or work as part of a team Initiative-taking and enthusiastic about delivering quality