Edenbrook are recruiting for a Finance Consultant – Business Partner. As part of a team of Finance Business Partners you will provide insight into financial performance, help with strategic decision making, and find ways of driving shareholder value. You will be expected to manage relationships with senior management and engage across a broad range of functions often acting as the key point person for initiative.
Key Responsibilities:
• Partner a senior leader in Underwriting, their team, and potentially other functions helping to manage and drive financial performance.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders in the business and act as a trusted partner.
• Provide Underwriting and Senior Management with insight and commentary into financial performance, and support the Finance Close team with analysis on a monthly basis.
• Manage the weekly and monthly premium forecast process for your business partnering area of responsibility. This will involve strong collaboration with Underwriting, Actuarial, Reinsurance and other Finance teams.
• Contribute towards the annual financial planning cycle both in terms of premium planning for your business partnering area of responsibility, and helping the Financial Planning Manager with the planning models.
• Produce financial materials for Board meetings, Committees, Town halls and other forums as required.
• Develop new performance indicators to measure success and strengthen the management information capabilities across the organisation.
• Support the business in strategic decision making and building business cases to support profitable growth.
• Lead in identifying areas for improvement or opportunities to drive value across the organisation.
• Collaborate with the Financial Management Information Manager is strengthening the business’ financial management information capabilities including ways to utilise automate reporting.
• Provide external market analysis including peer benchmarking to help inform decision making.
• Train other functions in the business to raise the level of financial and commercial acumen.
• Manage and collaborate on business wide and transformation projects as required.
• Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements at a level appropriate to the position.
• Other additional duties may be assigned as required.
The Ideal Candidate:
• An ability to build logical and persuasive business cases and solutions.
• Strong project management skills and significant experience in managing senior stakeholders
• Individuals with a strong sense of accountability, courage and the resolve to drive change.
• Experience of MS PowerPoint as a tool to present recommendations in a simple manner
• Exposure to the insurance industry with an understanding of insurance accounting and the value drivers of an insurance company is preferable.
• Professional qualification preferable (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
