This is a 12-Month Fixed Term Contract Senior Finance Analyst role within our EMEA Consumer (A&H and Personal Lines) Finance team. You will work closely with management and Country Finance Managers (CFMs) to achieve the company strategic goals. The role covers 12 clusters and 24 countries across Continental Europe (CE), Middle East & North Africa (MENA), UK & Ireland and will report directly to the EMEA Consumer Divisional Finance Officer.
We offer hybrid working and the role will be based in London

REQUIRE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE!

• Degree in Finance or Business Administration or equivalent experience in a Financial Planning & Analysis/Finance Business Partner role
• Relevant working experience in a Finance role within the insurance or Financial Services sectors.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data manipulation.
• Excellent spreadsheet business presentational skills.
• Technology savvy with experience in Cognos/TM1, Power BI
• Good communication skills driven by regular interaction with the business and management.
• Great teammate to our larger EMEA Finance team.
• Language skills – English, other CE language/s an advantage.

• Supports the DFO on building an automated reporting for EMEA Consumer Financials for each actuals, forecast, plan and strategic planning cycles
• Supports DFO on Global strategic process improvement such as building metrics for business insight and improving forecasting
• Working with Business Intelligence teams as well as Country Consumer Leads and CFM’s to ensure we have detailed views of production at an account level where these could be pulled through automated reports/dashboards.
• Direct Expenses Review (Staff Costs and ODC) and Review of allocations by department to ensure accurate expenses are reported
• Align the timetables across EMEA Region for Actuals, Forecast, Strat Plan and Plan reporting and build timelines and tasks.
• Monitor, review, and analysis of Direct Consumer Expenses, analysing and reconciling Headcount, monthly review of ODC at a country and account level.
• Support efforts in developing key data mining capabilities, including the development of reporting platforms (such as TM1 or QlikView).
• Finance Operational activities: Responsible for oversight of the operational activities underpinning the accuracy of the forecasts, Annual planning process and monthly/quarterly actuals. This includes oversight of the reconciliation of financial data (Production, Commissions and Expenses) and variance reporting