Senior Finance Business Partner – Change

Beazley; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuting reimbursement

Free in-office lunch

Parental leave benefits

Wellbeing contributions

Job summary

Beazley is transforming finance with modernised systems and enhanced business partnering. This Senior Finance Business Partner – Change will lead end-to-end financial leadership across strategic change initiatives, partnering with Strategy, Change and business stakeholders to ensure costs and benefits are tracked and reported for confident decision-making.

With platforms like Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning, automation and self-serve MI will free you to focus on insight, challenge, and

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in technology-enabled change.
• Proven ability to appraise business cases and realise benefits.
• Ability to design executive-ready presentations communicating complex financial insights.
• Strong commercial challenge and recommendations for senior audiences.
• Month-end, forecasting and capitalisation discipline.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to the Change portfolio with financial insight.
• Influence decisions early and hold stakeholders to outcomes.
• Review and validate business cases with clear benefits and costs.
• Lead cost-saving and efficiency initiatives that improve the cost base.
• Maintain central baseline of benefits and costs for change initiatives.
• Deliver monthly forecasts with risks and opportunities and present executive-ready analysis.
• Develop self-serve MI to focus on value-added insights.
• Ensure timely cost recognition and appropriate capitalisation.
• Maintain monthly risk and opportunity view and strong financial controls.
• Use Copilot, AI and Workday to automate reporting.

Skills

Financial planning

Business partnering

Executive stakeholder management

Post-implementation reviews

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Power BI

Workday

Adaptive Planning

Copilot AI

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

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

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 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).