Strategic, Operational, & Governance Senior Analyst - BFL

AXA UK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA UK seeks a Senior Analyst for its BFL division, a role pivotal in supporting strategic governance and operational priorities under the CFO. This position provides an opportunity for significant senior exposure and the chance to contribute to high-impact financial decisions within the Lloyd’s market framework.

Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong working knowledge of financial frameworks.
• Analytical mindset with ability to connect insight to strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support the CFO with strategic operational priorities.
• Provide oversight of financial governance and decision support.
• Lead preparation of board and committee papers.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Proven experience in finance

Experience in corporate governance

Job description

General

Job Title:Senior Analyst - BFL

Division:Finance

Reports To:BFL, CFO

Key Relationships:Global finance functional teams, BFL Finance Management group, Wholesale Management Committee, BFL Management Committee, , Platform/Group CFOs, BFL governance forums, External Auditors, Risk and Compliance teams, Project teams, Operations, Underwriting teams, Internal Audit

Job Summary:

The Senior Analyst will play a pivotal role in supporting the BFL CFO in driving strategic, operational, and governance priorities for BFL and Beazley Wholesale platform. This newly created role provides a unique opportunity to gain senior exposure, develop a commercial perspective, and engage closely with the BFL Management Committee and other senior stakeholders, fostering a well-rounded understanding of the Lloyd’s business and regulated entity operations.

The Senior Analyst will act as a strategic sounding board to the CFO, helping triage competing demands, manage priorities, and drive forward critical decisions.

This role is separate from Group Shared Services, offering focussed support to the BFL CFO in enhancing governance effectiveness, driving efficiency in decision-making, and ensuring a strong focus on delivering measurable outcomes.

The Senior Analyst will also provide ad hoc support to the Group CFO, where group-impacting activities intersect with the platform.You will also contribute to cross-entity finance initiatives, such as transformation, regulatory change, and governance design.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic and Operational Support – Driving the Three-Platform Model

• Support the CFO in managing BFL’s entity-led responsibilities within the three-platform structure, ensuring effective financial governance across platforms.
• Monitor intra-group service provider performance and escalate issues as needed.
• Translate CFO and board-level strategic decisions into operational outcomes, ensuring alignment with entity and platform priorities.
• Provide flexible capacity to support finance-wide or cross-functional initiatives that impact BFL entity and Wholesale platform.

1. Financial Decision Support and Oversight

• Provide timely and relevant decision support to the CFO by ensuring access to accurate, comprehensive financial and operational information.
• Work closely with the Finance Business Partner and other finance functions (incl. reporting, operations, and actuarial) to ensure high-quality MI across financial performance, cost, efficiency, and capital.
• Ensure and challenge the quality of outputs from intra-group service providers, providing oversight to ensure insights are clearly articulated and translated into meaningful CFO-level messaging.
• Maintain oversight of the integrity and controls of financial information and MI used for entity-level and platform-level decision-making.
• Support investment cases, cost allocation, and capital & funding decisions aligned with BFL’s commercial strategy and entity priorities.=

1. Governance and Board Support

• Lead the preparation and coordination of high-quality board and committee papers, ensuring clarity, alignment, and timeliness.
• Act as a delegate for the CFO in selected meetings and forums, supporting effective communication and follow-through on actions.
• Maintain awareness of regulatory and governance requirements relevant to BFL.
• Track key governance and action points, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with entity responsibilities.

1. Governance, Regulations and Control Environment

• Act as Finance’s strategic liaison for regulatory oversight—ensuring proactive engagement and high standards across BFL’s finance deliverables.
• Provide challenge and follow-through to ensure teams deliver timely and accurate regulatory submissions, governance actions, and documentation.
• Support the CFO in maintaining a robust risk and control culture, including clarity on roles, governance structure, and oversight of finance processes and deliverables.
• Provide input to governance design and control effectiveness reviews, promoting continual improvement across BFL’s entity responsibilities and driving consistent ownership and control expectations across functions

1. Stakeholder Management and Liaison

• Act as the primary link between the CFO and key stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Actuarial and other functions across Beazley.
• Engage with the Group CFO as needed to support activities linked to BFL but with broader group-level implications.
• Support cross-entity coordination, particularly during finance transformation, regulatory projects, and governance change.

1. Leadership, Transformation, and Process Improvement

• Act as a strategic sounding board to the CFO, offering insights on finance, strategy, operating model enhancements, and governance maturity
• Support delivery of finance transformation initiatives, such as Workday Financials and TOM implementation.
• Identify opportunities for process automation, efficiency gains, and clearer accountabilities.

Personal Specification:

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in finance, corporate governance, reporting, or executive-level support within a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong working knowledge of financial and operational frameworks in complex, multi-entity or matrixed organisations.
• Experience supporting senior leaders with board reporting, governance processes, regulatory documentation, or cross-functional delivery.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to interpret financial and operational data to support strategic decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to influence at senior levels and synthesise complex information clearly and concisely.
• Analytical and structured thinker, capable of connecting detailed insight to broader business and strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively in uncertain or evolving environments, identifying what matters most and progressing action with clarity.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, connect operational activity to organisational goals, and enable alignment across teams.
• Comfortable working across platforms, governance layers, and functions, with the confidence to challenge appropriately and facilitate constructive alignment.
• High initiative and ownership, with a track record of independently identifying improvements and driving delivery through to resolution.

Desirable:

• Prior experience in insurance, ideally in the Lloyd’s market or across UK, US, or group-level insurance platforms.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and governance expectations such as Solvency II, SMCR, or Lloyd’s oversight.
• Exposure to enterprise-wide change or finance transformation initiatives, including operating model design, data/reporting enhancements, or technology enablement.
• Experience preparing or reviewing Board and Committee materials, or supporting senior governance forums.
• Understanding of finance data and MI systems (e.g. Workday, Oracle, Hyperion) and their role in performance management and business partnering.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect the dots across finance, strategy, and regulatory priorities, enabling senior decision-making.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with confidence to engage, challenge, and influence across diverse functions and seniority levels.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, capable of managing multiple workstreams and deadlines while maintaining discretion and resilience under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft concise Board-level outputs and translate technical or operational matters for broader audiences.
• Independent and proactive, with sound judgment to know when to escalate, align, or act autonomously.
• Collaborative team player who contributes to a positive and inclusive culture, while also holding high expectations of delivery and accountability.
• Curious and commercially aware, with the ability to understand business drivers, financial levers, and interdependencies influencing performance.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, complex environments with shifting priorities — able to stay focused, adaptable, and outcome-driven.
• Open to feedback and self-development, with a growth mindset and willingness to evolve in role.
• Able to support and challenge intragroup service providers, clearly articulating expectations, monitoring service delivery, and resolving issues constructively.

General

At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s corevalues and behaviours – PIED and Being Beazley.

• Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.