Job Title: Finance Specialist (Alteryx) - 6 month FTC
Division: Finance Change (Configuration Team)
Job Summary
The role is responsible for the ongoing support, stability, and governance of the Alteryx platform across Finance, ensuring solutions operate reliably within a controlled and scalable environment.
The primary focus is on managing existing workflows, coordinating platform upgrades, and leading the transition of Alteryx services into IT ownership. The role ensures alignment with enterprise governance, minimises operational risk, and maintains continuity of business-critical processes.
Alongside platform responsibilities, the role may support broader change initiatives through business analysis activities where required.
Further to this is an opportunity to cross skill on our Workday platforms including Workiva/Adaptive/Prism.
Additional Roles and Responsibilities
- Work seamlessly with Finance/IT teams and stakeholders to understand business challenges and requirements
- Support finance BAU teams with UAT testing and report/fix any bugs/defects which arise
- Support existing embedded Alteryx solutions
- Collaborate with Alteryx developers to ensure best practice building of workflows and exception handling is applied to all workflows
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 – PIED and Being Beazley.
- Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external stakeholders.
- Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, and internal audit) directly, either via e-learning or the learning management system.
- Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our stakeholders.
- Ensure all interactions with stakeholders 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, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, and Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and stakeholder 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 Beazley committees or working groups.
- Any other duties as required.
Personal Specification:
Essential Criteria
- Degree or equivalent
- Alteryx Certification/ETL experience
- Understanding on finance processes/practices
Knowledge/Skills (desired but not essential)
- Insurance/Lloyds of London Market
- Use of Jira/Atlassian
- Lean methodology
Competencies & Capabilities
- At Beazley IT we focus on our “Future Selves”. These competencies & capabilities include:
- Business Acumen
- Adaptable yet Challenging
- Stakeholder Partnership
- Collaborative
- Engineering Mind-set
- Data Driven
Other key competencies and capabilities are:
- Agile working: ability to change thought and direction quickly
- Responsible: responsibility that comes without power
- Passionate: for continuous improvement and taking ownership for output
- Communication: with thought, openness and flexibility
- Initiative: offer suggestions and constructively challenge status-quo
