Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)

Role: Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)

Location: London / Hybrid

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 3-6 Months, with a strong chance of extension

Daily Rate: Competitive, Inside IR35

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

The Role

• Expenses Workstream Lead within a large-scale finance transformation programme for a FTSE 100 life insurance client.
  
• Lead the design and delivery of the Expenses workstream, covering expense management, cost allocation, service company billing and management information/reporting.
  
• Own and drive key workstream activities, requirements, design decisions, dependencies and deliverables.
  
• Lead discussions with senior client stakeholders, providing appropriate challenge and helping drive resolution of key design questions.
  
• Manage and provide direction to a small team of approximately 1–3 junior resources.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Approximately 5–10 years' relevant experience, with sufficient seniority and credibility to lead a workstream and engage directly with senior client stakeholders.
  
• Strong Finance and/or FP&A experience within life insurance, ideally covering:
  
• Expense management and cost control
  
• Cost allocation methodologies and processes
  
• Management information and reporting
  
• Any experience of expense reserving is a bonus.
  
• Good understanding of the life insurance financial and regulatory reporting environment, with exposure to Solvency II, IFRS and/or IFRS 17 beneficial.
  
• Previous experience working on a finance transformation or major finance change programme.
  
• Strong project/workstream management skills, with the ability to independently drive activities through to completion.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including confidence facilitating discussions, constructively challenging stakeholders and debating key design decisions.
  
• Experience of Oracle would be beneficial, particularly Oracle Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management (EPCM) and allocation & billing functionality.
  
• Previous team management or coaching experience would be beneficial given responsibility for junior resources.