Apply: Finance Product Owner - General Insurance

Reference: BH-176215
Out client is a major general insurance group currently undergoing a number of major business and finance transformation programs.  As such they are looking an experienced Senior Accounting & Finance professional with deep general insurance experience and exposure within transformation programs to join the program in a newly created finance product owner position. 

This role will act as a conduit between finance and accounting, technology, finance transformation and business transformation and will focus on the following:

  • Be responsible for driving finance outcomes across all streams and being a central contact point between Finance and the Transformation Program teams.
  • Provide and facilitate wider finance input by attending regular stand ups, sprint planning sessions and facilitating SME advice as required.
  • Work closely with other Product owners across transformation to drive collaboration an to provide a single view of Finance defects, incidents and risks.
  • Work closely with the business transition team on ensuring consistent approach, design and implementation of the dual mode of operation change management, communications and training.
  • Ensure key financial controls are designed, embedded and functioning efficiently for areas of responsibility.
  • Lead and drive improvement opportunities to deliver increases business efficiency and effectiveness for finance teams.
  • Develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and deliver timely project reporting updates to key stakeholders.
  • Deliver program and finance objectives within agreed timelines and budgets.
  • Guide and support the team in defining, prioritising, designing, developing, testing and implementing solutions.
  • Ensure continuous and effective communication to relevant team members, stakeholders and colleagues throughout the project.
  • Build and maintain collaborative relationships with Transformation team members, and across the group, to translate business requirements into best practice and seamless embedment.
  • Monitor and solicit feedback regarding workstreams to identify opportunities for optimisation

Required experience:
  • Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline with relevant accreditations such as Chartered Accountant (CA).
  • Extensive Finance experience in a people leadership role for a complex, matrixed general insurance organisation.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing finance projects.
  • Highly developed consulting and influencing skills, demonstrating the ability to co-create strategy and valuable
    analytical solutions with key business stakeholders.
  • Ability to interpret and analyse complex information, extract meaningful insights and evaluate options for decision
    making.
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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