Senior Business Partner - 12 Month FTC in London

Beazley is seeking a Senior Business Partner – Europe within its Finance function to work closely with a wide range of stakeholders across the business. Reporting to the Head of Business Partnering – Financial Performance but with a dotted line to the Head of European Finance, this role will be primarily responsible for managing relationships with European senior management and helping to bring a European focus to internal analysis and projects. Although primarily focused on planning activity, the role covers review of actual results and supporting reviews as required of any Europe / CBI submissions from within Finance. The role holder must be commercially aware and demonstrate the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Business Partnering – Financial Performance and their leadership team to foster a culture that values employee experience, empowerment and wellbeing.
• Focus on customer service to provide best in class service, amplifying the team’s overall capability and proactively seeking insights from key stakeholders to anticipate changing dynamics.
• Work with the Financial Planning and Product Business Partnering teams to provide timely insight on European financial performance across all short term planning cycles, driving resolution of queries as required.
• Collaborate with the Financial Planning team to ensure Medium Term Plan outputs are clearly understood and help drive strategic direction of the organisation from both an underwriting and expenses viewpoint.
• Understand the drivers of the European expense base and allocated costs borne from central service functions and working with others in Financial Performance, be able to articulate the story to senior stakeholders and committees.
• Be a key SME in the European entities’ revenue streams from internal reinsurance arrangements with an ability to understand drivers of the financials from the other platforms at Beazley.
• Work with the Product Business Partners and European / BIDAC Finance teams as required to assist in responding to European specific queries across internal and external challenge.
• Attendance as required at quarterly peer or regulatory reviews for various submissions completed by Finance on European matters.
• Review and enhance the current capability and offering from the business partnering team and with the support of a modernised toolkit work towards future state.
• Embed oneself within wider company activities and support various Finance projects and initiatives with a European lens.

Personal Specification

Education / Qualifications / Experience

• Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Experience working in complex insurance organisations with exposure to regulatory or planning data
• Understanding of GAAP reporting and consolidation accounting
• Experience of Workday Financials and Workday Adaptive advantageous, but not essential

Capabilities

• Stakeholder management and relationship building, including customer focus and experience of influencing senior leadership
• Experience of a deadline driven environment
• Strong attention to detail and technical aptitude
• Analytical and conceptual thinking with ability to turn data into insights
• Problem solving / Decision making
• Understanding of controls frameworks including documentation
• Creativity / Innovation / Adaptability

Benefits

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organisation.
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus.
• Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents.
• Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance.
• Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%.
• 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus public holidays, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, subject to approval.
• Additional annual leave purchase is also available up to a maximum of five additional days per year.
• Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually.
• Up to €590 reimbursement towards home office setup.
• Free in office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance.
• Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket.
• Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood.
• Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service.
• Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education.
• Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business.