Job Description & Person Specification
Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner – Change
Division: Finance
Reports To: Head of Business Partnering – Change
Key Relationships: Change Committee, PMO, Delivery Leads, Finance Leadership Team, Financial Performance, Finance Business Partners, Business Function Heads, Group Planning Team, Accounts Payable Team and other Business Users
Job Summary:
Beazley is transforming how it works — modernising systems, sharpening processes, and elevating Finance’s role in shaping strategic decisions. As the pace of change accelerates, we’re shifting from transactional project accounting to true business partnering that drives value, accountability, and benefits realisation.
In this role, you’ll provide end to end financial leadership across Beazley’s strategic change initiatives. You’ll work closely with Strategy, Change, and business stakeholders to ensure costs and benefits are clearly understood, accurately tracked, and reflected in high quality reporting that enables confident decision making.
Ultimately with platforms like Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning, automation and self-serve MI will free you to focus on insight, challenge, and investment appraisal — not mechanics.
This is a role for someone who wants to shape commercial outcomes, influence senior stakeholders, and ensure Beazley makes the right investment choices for long term performance.
Key Responsibilities:
This role will provide partnering and independent financial challenge across change programmes ensuring business value for money & accountability for financial outcomes and benefits.
Business Partnering & Executive Influence:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Change portfolio, bringing financial insight to support strategic decisions.
- Influence decision making early and hold stakeholders accountable for financial outcomes.
Business Case Appraisal, Prioritisation & Value for Money
- Review and validate business cases, ensuring clear benefits, costs, risks and prioritisation.
- Support stakeholders in building strong business cases and securing funding.
- Provide robust financial challenge and ensure assumptions are documented and trackable.
- Lead cost saving and efficiency initiatives that improve Beazley’s financial cost base.
Benefits Realisation & Tracking
- Maintain a central baseline of benefits and costs for all change initiatives.
- Support teams to track benefits against business cases and explain variances.
- Ensure corrective actions are agreed and monitored.
Project Analysis, Reporting, MI & Forecasting
- Analyse expense trends and deliver clear, actionable insights.
- Build accurate monthly forecasts and highlight risks, pressures, and opportunities.
- Present analysis in concise, executive ready formats with clear narrative.
- Develop self-serve MI to shift focus from mechanics to value add insight.
Month End, Accounting & Capitalisation
- Ensure timely and accurate cost recognition and insightful month end commentary.
- Apply appropriate capitalisation in line with accounting policy.
- Anticipate variances early and maintain a “no surprises” approach.
Governance, Risk, Controls & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain a monthly risk and opportunity view across programmes.
- Uphold strong financial controls and adherence to policy.
- Drive process improvement initiatives to modernise ways of working.
Technology / Digital Ways of Working
- Use Copilot, AI, Adaptive and Workday to automate reporting and reduce manual effort.
- Embed systemled reporting and reduce reliance on spreadsheets.
Personal Specification:
Essential Criteria
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with portfolio or complex programme experience in technology enabled change within Financial Services.
- A track record of business case appraisal and benefits realisation, including post‑implementation reviews.
Month‑end, forecasting and capitalisation discipline with a pragmatic, ‘no surprises’ mindset.
What you'll bring:
- Able to design visually compelling, executive‑ready presentations that clearly communicate complex financial insights and strategic narratives.
- Strong commercial challenge and clear recommendation writing for senior audiences.
Nice to have:
- Insurance/Lloyd’s familiarity.
- Experience with agile funding or product‑centric operating models.
- Experience with Workday/Adaptive and Power BI (or similar).
- Line‑management or matrix leadership of analysts.
General
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours.
Adopt the Beazley culture of professionalism, integrity, effectiveness and dynamic attitude that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA, Lloyd’s and FCA Conduct Rules. Undertake training on BFL’s policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, Culture and People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all BFL customers.
Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, Culture and People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, BFL’s underwriting control standards, BFL’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any BFL committees or working groups.
