Job Title: Senior Finance Business Analyst
Job Type: Permanent
Location: London
Salary: £95,000
Opportunity Overview: A fantastic opportunity has become available to join a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance company, Aspen, as a Senior Finance Business Analyst.
Role Objective: To apply specific subject matter expertise, related accounting principles, regulatory standards, analytical and systems skills to effectively and efficiently carry out high value/highly complex analytical activities within their discipline; providing relevant advice, guidance and approval in accordance with various initiatives within the UK and UK Branch entities, delivering change, creating efficiencies, and providing valuable insights into business performance, driving decision-making, and focusing on value creation
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy and Planning
- As a senior and experienced finance professional build a strong understanding of financial and operational issues by linking financial and operational information to strategy and commercial outcomes.
- Provide findings for strategic decision support to improve capital optimisation, processes, and productivity.
- Contribute to detailed analysis of financial data to identify inefficiencies, propose solutions and support the delivery of the required changes.
- Manage complex business models and financial data and interpret them into meaningful insights.
- Develop robust financial models and scenario analyses to support complex decision-making processes.
Policy, Process and Procedures
- As a senior technical expert review and validate policies and procedures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Assist in the interpretation of organisation goals and regulatory/legislative requirements; and is proactive, in reviewing, analysing and suggesting how compliance, effectiveness and risk management can be improved.
- Apply specific expertise to advise and guide others within the team, to ensure accuracy, good practice and adherence to prescribed standards.
- Research and benchmark product data against industry standards.
Technical Performance
- As a senior technical and analytical expert possessing strong ability to analyse financial data and provide insights.
- Demonstrate proficiency in financial reporting tools, and MS Office (Advanced Excel, Power- BI)
- Ensure successful development and implementation of systems and tools for improved financial reporting and data analysis.
- Is a key contributor to leading cross-functional communications with multiple operations and Finance at highest professional standard.
- Drive process improvements, controls solutions, execute projects related to standardization, quality improvement, compliance or simplification.
Requirements:
Knowledge
- Certified Public Accountant Preferred
- Good understanding of US GAAP, UK GAAP auditing standards.
- Practical finance and reporting systems knowledge
Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills.
- Ability and comfort level in researching inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies.
- Highly proficient in MS systems such as Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI
- Effective time management skills with the ability to manage priorities to meet strict deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Teamwork - able to collaborate and work flexibly with other.
- Ability to work independently and autonomously with minimal supervision.
- Problem solving skills.
Experience
- Experience in accounting/auditing roles (preferably for a P&C insurance company/Lloyd's specialty business)
- Working experience on improvement and remediation
- Working experience in project management
- Change management experience.
- Finance Business Partnering experience working with Senior Stakeholders
- Technical accounting research and advice.
- Financial statement analysis
- Benchmarking services and market analysis
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