Senior Finance Partner - Change & Strategy

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

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