Head of FP&A - LII UK & MENA and LMAL

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Creation Date: 02-Jun-2025

Employment Type: Permanent, Full time

Ref #: 1234571642

About the Role:

Finance in Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) consists of circa 100 FTE and has a number of key roles:

• To partner the business to enhance decision making with a focus on strategy, planning, analysis and reporting.
• To ensure that all external financial reporting requirements (statutory, regulatory, tax, capital etc) are fulfilled.
• To provide insightful performance analysis on the LSM legal entities to the Legal Entity Management Committees enabling effective performance planning and management.
• To report to our US Parent on standard monthly requirements and ad-hoc requests on both a pillar and a legal basis.
• To ensure superior management of our investments, cash and all financial risks.
• To give finance operations support to the business and finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in the development of LII UK & MENA plans and programmes as a strategic partner and trusted advisor.
• Evaluate and advise on the financial impact of long-range planning, introduction of new programmes/strategies and the changing macroeconomic environment across LII UK & MENA and LMAL.
• Provide strategic financial input and leadership on decision making issues affecting LII UK & MENA and LMAL.
• Deputise for the LII UK & MENA CFO as required.
• Support the robust monitoring of LMAL performance, acting as a key partner to the ManCo and ensuring entity planning and reporting requirements are fulfilled.
• Business Partner key stakeholders on LMAL and LII UK & MENA financial performance metrics.
• Maintain and support the strong and close working relationship with the LMAL regulators.
• Oversight of services performed by other finance functions ensuring outsourcing agreements are complete, accurate, up to date and comply with the Solvency II requirements.
• Ongoing analytical review of the balance sheets ensuring balances are reconciled, adequately understood and communicated.
• Work with centralised teams in London to ensure LII UK & MENA performance is robustly monitored, with analysis produced to support and inform business decision making.
• Ensure financial risks are identified, understood and have appropriate risk controls in place to mitigate.
• Develop and maintain processes, policies and controls as needed.
• Management of the UK & MENA and LMAL FPA team.
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with the Pillar finance teams ensuring all requirements pertaining to the performance management of the legal entity are accurately defined and communicated in a timely manner.
• In-depth understanding of the legal entities, distribution channels and the lines of business written on the platform to ensure that monthly financial reporting is fully analysed, understood, challenged and explained to the Executive and Senior management within LMAL.

Skills and Experience:

• 5 years+ ACA/ CIMA/ACCA qualified with relevant work experience, with commercial and strategic experience in a role involving extensive financial analysis and management reporting.
• An in-depth knowledge of insurance accounting and industry knowledge.
• A trusted advisor who is highly skilled at developing key relationships and the ability to quickly build credibility, trust and rapport.
• Highly analytical approach to work to complete detailed analysis with structured, robust approach to data manipulation, interpretation and present findings in a clear and simple manner.
• Ability to consider a variety of data and information sources, approaches and possible outcomes for decision making.
• Ability to ensure metrics and decisions are aligned to strategic priorities and supported by fact based quantitative and qualitative data, information and analytical thinking.
• A high level of resilience, demonstrating the ability to effectively manage stakeholders and deadlines.
• An excellent communicator with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Demonstrates a good knowledge of risk management and application.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities and facilitation skills to recognise and build cross-functional collaboration through continuous improvement.
• Experience of operating in a multi-cultural environment, shows respect and understanding when interacting with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving capability and the ability to independently work through and resolve issues as they arise.

About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM):

Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why "Put People First" is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation.