General:
Job Title: Lead Change Business Partner
Division: Finance
Reports To: Head of Business Partnering - Change
Key Relationships: Change Committee, PMO, Finance Leadership Team, Strategic Finance, Financial Performance, Finance Business Partners, Business Function Heads, Group Planning Team, Accounts Payable Team and other Business Users

JOB SUMMARY:

Beazley & Finance are on a modernisation journey aimed at improving our systems and processes, allowing us to effectively structure ourselves to meet the requirements of a growing business. This is creating an opportunity to build out our strategic finance business partnering capability.
This role is responsible for providing financial partnering on all elements of strategic initiatives and change across the company. You will work closely with Beazley’s strategy and Change teams as well as various business stakeholders to provide comprehensive financial insight to benefits realisation and cost tracking, ensuring that value is understood and recognised appropriately. A key function will be ensuring the correct recognition of benefits and expenditure within the financial records, providing detailed annual and medium term change plans and providing financial reporting on a timely basis
Are you ready to make a significant impact on our company’s financial future? The investment decisions we make now will help support the business in the long term. As an Change Business Partner, you will be key in ensuring that we do this right and ensuring performance is aligned to the original business case expectations.
This is not just a numbers role; it’s an opportunity to influence and shape the direction of our business at Beazley.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• Experienced qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Curiosity and problem solving skills
• Enjoys asking the what if and why questions
• Story-Telling
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working in complex matrix organisation and adapting through periods of change
• Experience of IT project Accounting (Capitalisation / Depreciation)
• Investment Appraisal and Benefit realisation
• Proven experience in cost control, financial planning, analysis and reporting
• Experience in analysing large & complex data sets and presenting recommendations or & findings visually in a succinct way

This role will provide partnering and independent financial challenge across change programmes ensuring business value for money & accountability for financial outcomes and benefits
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Business Partnering: Become a trusted advisor to change area, bringing financial understanding to given area to enable strategic decision-making.

• Month End: Manage the accurate and timely cost recognition of expenses for a given programme, providing insightful commentary on performance in line with month end timetable.
• Capitalisation: Ensure appropriate monthly capitalisation of relevant expenses aligned to accounting policy
• Financial planning and analysis expertise: Expert knowledge of financial planning; budgeting; and forecasting processes, including the ability to drive continuous improvement in these areas.
• Project Analysis & Reporting: Dive deep into expense data, conducting variance analysis, uncover trends, and deliver actionable insights units to make informed decisions.
• Monthly financial forecasts: Collaborate with respective business area to create accurate and robust monthly expense forecast to anticipate cost pressures vs budget plan and identify opportunities for cost savings
• Risk & Ops: maintain and share monthly risk and opportunity register, that has both business and independent finance view of cost position.
• Assess inbound support requests from stakeholders and validate financial business case to provide support on determining prioritisation.
• Help stakeholders create business cases, outlining their benefits, costs, and risks; and provide recommendations to secure adequate funding and approval.
• Value for Money: Be the champion of cost savings and efficiency improvements, leading initiatives that will transform our financial cost base.
• Compliance & Controls: Ensure our financial policies and procedures are rock-solid, maintaining robust internal controls over expense management.
• Year End Activities: Support delivery of year end process, including collaboration on analytics (insights) and audit queries.
• Ad Hoc Projects: Take the lead on special projects and process improvement (PI) initiatives that simplify ways of working and help shape the function of the future.