Finance Expense Analyst - 12 Month FTC in London

Key Relationships: Finance (incl. Financial Performance team), Accounts Payable, BSS Business Function Heads, BSS Business Managers and other Business Users.

Job Summary: Specialist insurance company Beazley is seeking an Expense Analyst to support the accurate and timely delivery of the Beazley Shared Services (BSS) expense actuals & planning processes. This is mainly centred around month end processes and landing a month end position (with ledger entries), reconciliations & variance analysis and analytics reporting.

Reporting to the Expense Business Partner, this hands‐on role is responsible for processing, analysing, and reporting on BSS expenses. This includes data entry, running reports and preparing presentations using Finance systems (Workday Financials / Adaptive Planning). This role is ideal for someone with strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and a desire to develop within a finance function.

Key Activities & Areas of Responsibility:

• Provide direct support to decision makers.
• Support the delivery of the Expense Actuals process in accordance with pre‐approved timetables.
• Support Purchase Order compliance and uptake, variance analysis with robust and detailed commentary, running analytical processes & embedding the controls and governance framework.
• Support the delivery of the Expense planning process in accordance with pre‐approved timetables.
• Continuously strive to develop reporting capabilities and dashboards for process efficiency and reporting effectiveness.
• Enable rapid interpretation / updates and support via a continuous feedback loop with all stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate to stakeholders by using visuals and story‐telling techniques.
• Ensure appropriate control framework is in place to ensure accuracy of reporting.
• Ownership, and development, of the process documentation framework in place for responsibilities.
• Facilitate the creation of digital decision support tools.
• Utilise new technology to continue to enhance the current BSS offering.
• Work with the Change Team to ensure that decision support tools provide actionable advice.
• Assist in developing change management strategies to facilitate the adoption of new tools and processes.
• Assist in defining success criteria for Performance Management tools.

Core competencies:

• Financial planning and analysis expertise.
• Strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Communication and storytelling.
• Advanced technology literacy/proficiency.
• Problem‐solving.
• Relationship building and collaboration.
• Continuous improvement.
• Professionalism.
• Learning and development.
• Adaptability.
• Responsibility and Accountability.

General: It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing.

Essential Criteria:

• Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Experience of the financial services or insurance market (preferably Lloyd’s).
• Experience of Expense roles within complex insurance organisations and knowledge of accounting policies adopted.

Personal Specification: We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds.

Education and Qualifications: Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).

Capabilities: Coaching & leadership skills, Stakeholder management and relationship building, Customer focus with strong attention to detail, Understanding of controls frameworks including documentation, Experience of a deadline driven environment, Analytical / Problem solving / Decision making, Creativity / Innovation.