(Senior) Financial Analyst (m / f / d)

Allianz; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurer is seeking a candidate skilled in financial performance steering to support decision-making processes in the organization. The role requires significant experience in the insurance industry, with strong stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Key responsibilities involve financial reporting, forecasting, and supporting the leadership team on various projects. The company offers a competitive compensation package with bonus schemes and benefits, highlighting a commitment to employee development and a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Generous compensation package

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Significant experience in financial services, especially insurance or reinsurance.
• Expertise in planning and performance management, particularly in financial metrics.
• Experience applying AI and ML to business processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide business steering support to the LoB Head.
• Identify drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Ensure quality assurance for financial reporting.
• Present financial commentary for decision-making.
• Coordinate reporting and forecasting processes.
• Support ad-hoc projects for the leadership team.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving ability

Communication skills

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP

Job description

Within CFO Global Performance Steering (GPS), the Business Partnering team is a key contributor to foster bold and proactive steering towards AGCS's growth plans as well as provide consistent and comprehensive business steering support along the annual steering cycle.

Based in the Munich or London office, you will be responsible for the steering of the financial performance in your assigned Region and / or Line of Business (LoB). You will perform planning, reporting and analysis to ensure your stakeholders' understanding of monthly results, and support the decision‑making process and portfolio steering by continuously challenging financial performance.

You will play a key role in building bridges between our Finance and Underwriting departments as well as sharing best practice within GPS and the wider finance community.

This is an excellent career opportunity for someone who has significant experience within the insurance or reinsurance environment and can combine this with superior stakeholder management and business acumen skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide consistent and comprehensive business steering support to the LoB Head and / or Regional Managing Director.
• Identify key drivers, risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to senior management.
• Drive and ensure quality assurance for financial reporting and enabling both global business steering as well as transparency on financial performance.
• Present transparent conclusions and robust financial commentary to enable decision‑making.
• Coordinate regular reporting, forecasting and planning processes.
• Support Business Partnering leadership team on ad‑hoc topics and projects.

Qualifications and Experience

• Significant experience in the financial services industry, ideally in insurance or reinsurance.
• Proven expertise in planning and performance management, in particular analysis of financial statements and performance metrics specific to insurance or reinsurance.
• Ability to understand, elaborate and convey information clearly and effectively to a variety of stakeholders including senior management.
• At ease working in a global team, maintaining effective remote relationships.
• Analytical and problem‑solving ability, able to provide insight in complex situations.
• Ability to manage projects (milestone and task planning, managing resources, controlling, monitoring, reporting, moderating) and to develop solutions while considering complex stakeholder structures and requirements.
• Advanced Excel / PowerPoint skills, as well as SAP experience for reporting.
• Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision‑making is highly beneficial.

Whether it's aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses. Allianz Commercial is the centre of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid‑sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family‑owned and medium‑enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what’s ahead.

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