Senior Finance Business Partner – Change

Beazley Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuting reimbursement

Free in‑office lunch

Parental leave

Wellbeing contributions

Job summary

Beazley Group is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner – Change to provide end-to-end financial leadership across strategic change initiatives. You will partner with Strategy, Change, and business stakeholders to ensure costs and benefits are understood, tracked, and reported to enable confident decision-making.

You’ll work with platforms like Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning to automate reporting and deliver insight-driven investment appraisal, not mechanics.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA and experience in technology-enabled change within Financial Services.
• Proven track record in business case appraisal and benefits realisation.
• Ability to design executive-ready presentations communicating complex financial insights and strategic narratives.
• Experience with month-end forecasting and capitalisation discipline.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to the Change portfolio, providing financial insight for strategic decisions.
• Influence early decision-making and hold stakeholders accountable for financial outcomes.
• Review and validate business cases with clear benefits, costs, risks and prioritisation.
• Lead cost-saving and efficiency initiatives to improve Beazley’s financial cost base.
• Maintain a central baseline of benefits and costs for all change initiatives.
• Deliver accurate monthly forecasts and executive-ready reporting with clear narrative.
• Ensure timely month-end cost recognition and appropriate capitalisation.
• Maintain governance, risk controls and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Programme management

Business case appraisal

Executive storytelling

Costing and budgeting

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Workday

Adaptive

Power BI

Job description

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

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‑serveMI 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‑serveMI 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 system‑led reporting and reduce reliance on spreadsheets.

Personal Specification

Essential criteria that you'll bring:

• 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.
• 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.
• Month‑end forecasting and capitalisation discipline with a pragmatic, ‘no surprises’ mindset.

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

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Diverse thinking, enthusiasm and passion drives innovation at Beazley – can you help us to be the best?

We empower people to choose where to work given the work they need to do. Collaboration in office spaces is important, so we ask that our colleagues work from our office minimum of 2 days per week, with the remaining days for you to decide what works best for you and the role you are in.

Beazley will offer the person a competitive salary and discretionary bonus with a strong benefits package including commuting reimbursement, free in‑office lunch, excellent parental leave and financial physical and mental wellbeing contributions among others.

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing – as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.

We also expect Beazley employees to comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct (including PRA and FCA Conduct), undertake required training, uphold business ethics, and carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified (including membership of Beazley committees or working groups).