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- Act as a credible and trusted business partner for the underwriting function providing financial insights and challenge into underwriting performance and proposed business actions.
- Ownership of the company’s forecasting process, making sure it reflects business strategy and responds quickly to forthcoming business actions.
- Assess and report on monthly performance, providing succinct and meaningful reports for underwriting teams, senior management, and the leadership team.
- Play a leading role in developing the budget and business plans working closely with the CFO, other Executives and other members of the leadership team.
- Contribute to papers for Board and senior Committees, in particular (but not exclusively) to performance assessment, budget and planning papers.
- Work with Underwriting Operations team, other members of the Finance team, and IT specialists to develop, improve and automate FP&A and KPI reporting to enhance speed and accuracy.
- Take responsibility for input data accuracy and completeness, understanding how the data originates and the controls in place to ensure it can be relied upon.
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA)
- Commercial general insurance business experience
- Experience of producing meaningful and actionable financial planning and analysis
- Experience of presenting reports and analysis to senior management
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across departments
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate business plans into financial models
- Advanced Excel
- Coding skills to enable the manipulation and preparation of data (beneficial)
