A leading insurance group at Lloyd’s is currently recruiting for a Financial Strategy Specialist to work in the London Strategy and Corporate Development team
This is a small team that works at the heart of the business to shape
the growth and transformation strategy and support its implementation.
This person will report to the Senior Financial Analyst and will work closely with the whole team, comprising the Head of Innovation and Digital Strategy Manager, alongside the Chief Strategy Officer.
The role will be central to building and deriving more value from our intelligence
capabilities.
For example:
- Research to help identify underwriting and investment opportunities or potential
- underwriting partnerships
- Financial analysis and due diligence of opportunities relating to potential acquisitions,business development or underwriting partnerships
- Working with underwriting teams to build out strategies that are consistent with corporate
- themes and ambitions and appropriate for their customers and marketplace
- Defining and conducting market, competitor and customer research and analysis to improve market knowledge across the business and inform Group strategy and decision making
- Maintain understanding and awareness of industry trends and developments
Main duties
- Work alongside the Head of Partnerships in support of deploying capacity through direct relationships with carriers or underwriting agencies
- Identify appropriate UW segments and potential partners
- Pro-actively research and engage directly with target partners to shape opportunities
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative due diligence
- Support deal-making and on-boarding process
Experience
- Experience of research and analysis experience
- Able to demonstrate strategic and commercial awareness
- Enthusiasm for the global P&C insurance market and issues facing the industry
- Technically proficient and able to interpret insurance industry financials and KPIs
- Experience of historical and projected financial modelling using insurance data
- Building out proposals, business plans and presentations that tell a story and are logical to the audience
- Knowledge / experience of Specialty Insurance a bonus
Technical skills
- Experience of writing business plans, proposals, and financial models
- Strong numerical skills and ability to perform robust analysis
- Strong research and analysis with aptitude for deriving and communicating insight with commercial application
- Ability to analyse financial statements / reports / forecasts
- Ability to distil information and write succinct reports
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office products, in particular Excel and Powerpoint
