Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)
London, United Kingdom | Posted on 20/10/2026
Role: Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)
Location: London / Hybrid
StartDate: ASAP
EndDate: 3- 6 Months, with a strong chance of extension
This is an exciting opportunity to joinDeloitte Operations for an engagement with one of our Life Insurance clients.
The Role
- Expenses Workstream Lead within alarge-scale finance transformation programme for a FTSE 100 life insuranceclient.
- Lead the design and delivery of theExpenses workstream, covering expense management, cost allocation, servicecompany billing and management information/reporting.
- Own and drive key workstream activities,requirements, design decisions, dependencies and deliverables.
- Lead discussions with senior clientstakeholders, providing appropriate challenge and helping drive resolutionof key design questions.
- Manage and provide direction to a smallteam of approximately 1–3 junior resources.
Required Skills& Experience
- Approximately 5–10 years' relevantexperience, with sufficient seniority and credibility to lead a workstreamand engage directly with senior client stakeholders.
- Strong Finance and/or FP&Aexperience within life insurance, ideally covering:
- Expense management and cost control
- Cost allocation methodologies andprocesses
- Management information and reporting
- Any experience of expense reserving is abonus.
- Good understanding of the life insurancefinancial and regulatory reporting environment, with exposure to SolvencyII, IFRS and/or IFRS 17 beneficial.
- Previous experience working on a financetransformation or major finance change programme.
- Strong project/workstream managementskills, with the ability to independently drive activities through tocompletion.
- Strong stakeholder management andcommunication skills, including confidence facilitating discussions,constructively challenging stakeholders and debating key design decisions.
- Experience of Oracle would bebeneficial, particularly Oracle Enterprise Profitability and CostManagement (EPCM) and allocation & billing functionality.
- Previous team management or coachingexperience would be beneficial given responsibility for junior resources.
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