FP&A Manager required for an extremely successful, expanding London market insurance business. Responsible for monthly reporting, annual business plan (Syndicate Business Forecast) and to further develop business partnering for their Lloyds syndicate. 12 month contract.  Significant interaction with BU heads, underwriters, risk/actuarial, Operations, Lloyds and Group in the US.

• UK Planning Model (5 year PL, BS)
• Work with Active Underwriter, Risk Officer & FP&A staff in US to develop proprietary Group Corporate Planning Model software and implementation within the Lloyds operations
• Annual business plan, including production of Syndicate Business Forecast
• Monthly analysis of actual results against planned results and provide interpretation and analysis
• Provide actuarial reserving and capital teams with plan forecasts
• Responsibility for running the annual planning process including production of planning analysis packs, running planning away days, reviews of business plan forecasts
• Support the business with external competitor analyses and ad-hoc analysis/reporting as required
• Develop working relationships with the Business Unit leaders to ensure they are furnished with Syndicate performance data pertinent to their books of business, and work with them to develop financial reporting data that supports their business
• Develop business partner relations with Insurance Underwriting and Risk Teams, and the Group Planning Function.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA / CIMA / ACA)
• 5 years of finance, accounting and/or reporting experience, preferably in the London Insurance Market
• Lloyd’s experience (Syndicate / Managing Agency) especially Syndicate Business Forecast (SBF)
• Financial reporting and financial statement analysis, investment focus preferred
• Ability to understand, analyse and succinctly summarize financial results
• CPA/CFA/MBA a plus
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to effectively and professionally communicate with various levels of management via reports, memos, and verbal communications
• Strong leadership, organizational and time management skills
• Works effectively in a team environment and independently
• Flexibility to adapt to changing work priorities and assignments and deadline driven
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Outlook, and Word. Access and SAP or other general ledger applications and database querying tools a plus

Successful City Based Insurance Company requires a Qualified Accountant to take responsibility for periodic updates and development of Enterprise Business Intelligence.

Working closely with IT and FP&A teams this role requires experience of Management Information and Business Intelligence.

Review and validation of EBI dashboards before their release.

Collaboration with Business Segments in order to further develop EBI through identifying key metrics with agreed standard, widely accepted definitions.

Collaboration with IT in order to develop existing and new dashboards to enhance understanding of performance and explanation of progress against profit improvement actions.

Development and prototyping of dashboards including definition of metrics.

Candidates should be Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA). Insurance knowledge required. Good understanding of financial systems (ideally Oracle / Hyperion) and Excel necessary.

Global insurance and reinsurance organisation require FP&A Manager.

• 10 + years of finance, accounting and/or reporting experience, preferably in the London Insurance Market
• Financial reporting and financial statement analysis, investment focus preferred
• Ability to understand, analyze and succinctly summarize financial results
• Qualified Accountant
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to effectively and professionally communicate with various levels of management via reports, memos, and verbal communications
• Strong leadership, organizational and time management skills
• Works effectively in a team environment and independently
• Flexibility to adapt to changing work priorities and assignments and deadline driven
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Outlook, and Word. Access and SAP or other general ledger applications and database querying tools a plus.

Recently qualified Chartered Accountants with insurance audit backgrounds required for one of the City’s top London market insurance groups comprising Lloyd’s syndicates and insurance company with global reach.

Development opportunities to work in either FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) or Financial Reporting (GAAP / IFRS).

Liaising across the business with underwriters, actuaries, key stakeholders and finance.

Looking for a strong communicator with insurance ACA / ICAS or ICAEW qualification.

Great opportunity for someone that wants responsibility and opportunity to join exciting company with clear career progression to manager level.

FP&A accountant required by market leading City based insurance company.

To support the effective delivery of the finance planning and analysis team’s objectives including production of GAAP annual and five year plan, board reporting, monthly MI and results analysis
Key Responsibilities
* Production of excel based annual and five year GAAP plan – to include P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow and Capital (Syndicate, Group, IFRS and US GAAP basis)
* Production of quarterly forecasts and variance analysis/commentary with actuals (Syndicate, Group, IFRS and US GAAP basis)
* Coordination of annual business plan cycle including production of Syndicate Business Forecast (SBF)
* Monthly results analysis and commentary
* Monthly premium production reporting/analysis and distribution
* Production of all assigned board, committee, head office and regulatory reports with appropriate commentary and analysis
* Provide support to the actuarial and underwriting teams during the quarterly reserving process
* Pro-actively seek to understand informational needs of key stakeholders
* Play leading role in development of processes and initiatives including finance related projects
* Maintain all accounting records accurately and efficiently
* Finance representative to assigned governance groups
* Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements and ensure, at a level appropriate to the position, that appropriate measures are in place to ensure this compliance
* May perform additional duties as assigned.

Education & Experience
* Qualified accountant
* Insurance industry experience

FP&A accountant required by market leading City based insurance company.

To support the effective delivery of the finance planning and analysis team’s objectives including production of GAAP annual and five year plan, board reporting, monthly MI and results analysis
Key Responsibilities
* Production of excel based annual and five year GAAP plan – to include P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow and Capital (Syndicate, Group, IFRS and US GAAP basis)
* Production of quarterly forecasts and variance analysis/commentary with actuals (Syndicate, Group, IFRS and US GAAP basis)
* Coordination of annual business plan cycle including production of Syndicate Business Forecast (SBF)
* Monthly results analysis and commentary
* Monthly premium production reporting/analysis and distribution
* Production of all assigned board, committee, head office and regulatory reports with appropriate commentary and analysis
* Provide support to the actuarial and underwriting teams during the quarterly reserving process
* Pro-actively seek to understand informational needs of key stakeholders
* Play leading role in development of processes and initiatives including finance related projects
* Maintain all accounting records accurately and efficiently
* Finance representative to assigned governance groups
* Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements and ensure, at a level appropriate to the position, that appropriate measures are in place to ensure this compliance
* May perform additional duties as assigned.

Education & Experience
* Qualified accountant
* Insurance industry experience

Interim accountant required by market leading City based insurance company for maternity cover contract. Ideally you will have understanding of insurance accounting in a Sarbanes Oxley (SoX) environment and knowledge of IFRS.
You will support the effective delivery of the financial reporting team’s objectives including monthly ledger interrogation and control, Sarbanes Oxley control integration and subsequent testing, documentation of impact of new IFRS releases.

Key Responsibilities
* Monthly close of balance sheet items.
* Involvement in the re-writing of the company’s Sarbanes Oxley documentation
* Quarterly testing of Sarbanes Oxley
* Quarterly results analysis and commentary
* Monthly ledger interrogation for possible errors or omissions
* Monthly reasonableness checks on automatic ledger routines, for example FX revaluations
* Scoping out the impact of IFRS 9
* Production of annual Regulatory Filings as required by UK and local EU regulators
* Provide support to the Lloyd’s Regulatory Reporting Team, the FP&A team and Chicago Head Office
* Integration of financial process
* Pro-actively seek to understand informational needs of key stakeholders
* Play leading role in development of processes and initiatives including finance related projects
* Maintain all accounting records accurately and efficiently
* Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements and ensure, at a level appropriate to the position, that appropriate measures are in place to ensure this compliance
* May perform additional duties as assigned.
Education & Experience
* Qualified accountant
* Insurance industry experience
* Previous Sarbanes Oxley experience preferable

Our client, a Lloyd’s Syndicate, are looking to recruit an experienced FP&A Manager to join their City based team. This role will report to the Syndicate Finance Director, and would suit someone with previous FP&A experience gained within the Lloyd’s or wider company Market.

 Responsibilities

•  Development of the Financial Model  
• Coordinating with actuaries and underwriting functions in relation to the business plan process
• Business plan projections
• Syndicate Business Forecast (SBF)
• Coordinating with capital model actuaries ensuring consistency of assumptions and figures
• Peer analytics 
• Overseeing the outsourced Finance function on accounting and reporting, investments and expenses
• Actual vs. forecast analytics on a GAAP and year of account basis 
• Reporting on investment returns and cash flows 
• Production of Board papers

Successful London Market insurer with Lloyd’s syndicate and US parent looking to recruit an ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified Head of FP&A to lead their FP&A team.

Working closely with senior executives and providing business partnering to business unit CEOs on a regular basis, you will be responsible for the development and communication of detailed MI to the Executive Management team.

Duties

• Accurately forecasting quarterly results
• Managing the FP&A team, delivering accurate weekly and monthly reports
• Producing management packs for legal entities and profit centres
• Liaising with underwriters and company management to embed the FP&A function within the business.
• Explanation of company and profit centre results to underwriters
• Producing Syndicate business plans and entity level group plans (SBF)
• Generate expense analysis vs plan & prior
• Supporting finance management in the analysis and understanding of Capital Modelling vs GAAP accounting
• Assisting in the implementation of new group planning tools
• Provide ad-hoc reports and analysis on request
• Continually improving the FP&A function
• Work closely with all company disciplines; finance team, actuarial, operations, claims, HR, business units.

The successful candidate will have extensive FP&A experience gained within the insurance industry (ideally London market / Lloyd’s syndicates / Managing Agency) and possess a thorough understanding of insurance accounting.

Lloyd’s Syndicate looking for an FP&A Accountant to join their London City based office.

The post holder will be the key contact for SBF (Syndicate Business Forecast) and PMD (Performance Management Data), to include entry of SBF and PMD onto Lloyd’s Software, completing SBF narrative, updating SBF timetables, producing SBF P&L, controlling underwriting templates, completing monthly Lloyds PMD returns, class benchmarking liaison with actuaries, data output checks and reconciliations, investigating errors.

Another key area of responsibility for the successful candidate will be Management Information;  monthly class monitoring, premium, exec reports,  monthly staff slides and board packs, involvement in monthly underwriting packs, monthly premium tracker and monthly plan vs. actuals variance reporting with investigation where necessary.

This role also incorporates planning and re-forecasting; assisting the FP&A Manager with the annual corporate plan and quarterly re-forecasting, as well as bridging analysis of the corporate plans and SBF’s, as well as involvement in SII reporting, cash flow and investment forecasting and analysis, Risk Appetite confirmation.

The successful candidate will ideally be ACCA / CIMA qualified or studying and must have experience of financial planning gained within the insurance industry.