Apply: Senior Financial Analyst, Projects - Insurance

Reference: BH-165289-3
Our client is a leading Insurance group and employer of choice. They are currently looking for an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join on an 18 month contract basis to focus on redesigning their FP&A processes

Reporting to the Head of FP&A with a dotted line to the Head of the transformation project you will support the FP&A team by contributing and successfully delivering on planning and reporting requirements. You will be representing FP&A in the Project working team as well as contributing to system and process changes and supporting planning, forecasting and group reporting deliverables.

Specific Deliverables will include:
  • Represent FP&A within the project
  • Analysing and understanding the impacts on planning, forecasting and group reporting
  • Guide the FP&A team with the implementation of Group’s new management reporting platform
  • Contribute and deliver to the planned reporting requirements and project deliverables.
  • Liaising with the local project team, finance teams, APAC and Group team on technical matters
  • Supporting the plan, forecast and results submission to Group
  • Support the team on all changes and processes
  • Identifying and addressing any gaps from reporting readiness and from frameworks
  • Monitor and assess the impact on reporting from Group’s FP&A KPI framework requirements.
  • Improve current processes and work with other team members to understanding the current process and re-designing workbooks and templates
  • Part of the project working group, you will become a subject matter expert on the areas of change impacting FP&A, including expense qualifications and allocation changes as well as the Group and management reporting. You will also have responsibility with the project team to lead changes to reports in line with the new requirements

This will initially be an 18 month contract with potential to extend.

Required Skills and Experience:
  • Qualified CA/CPA/CIMA with minimum 3-5 years post qualified experience in financial analysis, management reporting or business partnering roles
  • Experience within large complex financial services organisations (ideally insurance)
  • Experience of designing and building new management reporting processes 
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience in large projects preferable
  • Insurance experience would be highly desirable
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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