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About the Role

The Senior Finance Business Partner is a strategic leader responsible for driving financial performance, shaping business strategy, and influencing senior stakeholders. This role provides forward-looking insights and leads financial planning across underwriting, claims, and operational areas to ensure financial considerations are embedded in key business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders including Managing Directors and Heads of Underwriting.
• Influence strategic decisions through robust financial insight and challenge.
• Drive a culture of commercial awareness and financial accountability.
• Lead and develop a high-performing finance business partnering team.
• Represent finance in strategic forums, governance committees, and executive discussions.
• Lead the development of annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term business plans.
• Provide strategic insight on growth opportunities, capital allocation, and portfolio optimisation.
• Develop and oversee scenario modelling to assess business risks and opportunities.
• Support M&A activity, business cases, and investment decisions.
• Own performance analysis across key insurance metrics such as combined, loss, and expense ratios.
• Provide deep insight into profitability by product line, geography, and distribution channel.
• Identify value creation opportunities and drive initiatives to improve margins and efficiency.
• Lead performance review processes and Board-level reporting.
• Provide expert insight into underwriting performance, claims development, and reserving impacts.
• Partner with actuarial teams to understand assumptions, pricing models, and capital implications.
• Support portfolio management decisions, risk appetite, and underwriting strategy.
• Contribute to capital modelling, reinsurance strategy, and regulatory considerations.
• Ensure strong financial governance, controls, and regulatory compliance.
• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting and planning outputs.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks across the business.
• Support regulatory reporting and interactions.
• Lead finance transformation initiatives to enhance insight, efficiency, and automation.
• Improve data quality, reporting capabilities, and use of analytics tools.
• Drive standardisation and best practice across finance processes.
• Champion data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Extensive experience in finance business partnering within insurance or financial services.
• Strong understanding of insurance financials including underwriting cycles, reserving, claims dynamics, and capital requirements.
• Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic outcomes.
• Advanced financial modelling, planning, and analytical capability.
• Experience leading teams and developing talent.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate financial data into business strategy.
• Experience with finance systems, data tools, and performance reporting frameworks.

Skills

• Financial modelling
• Strategic planning
• Performance analysis
• Insurance underwriting and claims analysis
• Financial governance and compliance
• Data analytics and BI tools
• Stakeholder management
• Team leadership

Location

• London, UK

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

About the Company

• Ryan Specialty is a multi-time winner of Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplaces and Insurance Business’s Top Insurance Employers.
• The company provides innovative solutions for insurance brokers, agents, and carriers.

Equal Opportunity

• Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce.
• The company maintains an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for their performance and contributions regardless of race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.