Job description and person specification
Senior Business Partner - Europe
Division: Finance – Financial Performance
Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart
Key Relationships: Finance - European / BIDAC Finance, Finance - Financial Performance, European
Management Committee, Group Actuarial and Strategic Finance and other Business
Users.
Job Summary: Specialist insurance company 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 actuals 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:
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Work with the Head of Business Partnering – Financial Performance and their leadership team to foster a culture that values employee experience, empowerment and wellbeing
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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
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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
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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
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Attendance as required at quarterly peer or regulatory reviews for various submissions completed by Finance on European matters. This includes providing certain information in advance as required.
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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
Essential Criteria
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Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
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Experience working in complex insurance organisations with exposure to regulatory or planning data
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Understanding of GAAP reporting and consolidation accounting
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Experience of Workday Financials and Workday Adaptive advantageous, but not essential
Capabilities
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Stakeholder management and relationship building, including customer focus and experience of
influencing senior leadership -
Experience of a deadline driven environment
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Strong attention to detail and technical aptitude
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Analytical and conceptual thinking with ability to turn data into insights
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Problem solving / Decision making
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Understanding of controls frameworks including documentation
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Creativity / Innovation / Adaptability
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours.
Adopt the Beazley culture of professionalism, integrity, effectiveness and dynamic attitude that
contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and
experience to our external customers.
Comply with procedures, policies and regulations and undertake training on Beazley policies and
procedures as delivered by your line manager, People and Sustainability or assurance teams
(compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all customers.
Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the
right products for their needs.
Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through
the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or
working groups.
Who We Are:
Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and
businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the
confidence and freedom to explore, create and build – to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture
We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee’s diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.
- Be bold
- Strive for better
- Do the right thing
Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.
We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment.
We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.
Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development.
Our Employee Networks include:
- Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
- Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
- Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
- Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
- Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be
We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own
career here, such as:
- Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
- iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
- LinkedIn Learning
- Mentorship program
- External qualification sponsorship
- Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
- Secondment assignments
The Rewards
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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
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Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents
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Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance
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Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%
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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.
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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
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Up to €590 reimbursement towards home office setup
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Free in office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance
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Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket
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Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
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Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
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Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
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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
