Senior Financial Modeller - esure Group : Job Details

Company Description

Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

Job Description

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Modeller to join our team and make an impact. The successful individual will lead the enhancement of existing Financial Planning models in Anaplan, including being the key SME to bring to bear Anaplan functionality and the esure data capabilities to transform the financial reporting, MI and integrated forecasting for esure.

Day-to-Day:

• Collaborate with the Head of FP&A and Commercial team to run and improve the Financial Planning and Forecasting model, delivering an agile, high-quality solution.
• Optimize processes for usability, efficiency, adaptability, and robustness of the Anaplan model.
• Identify and prioritise forecasting enhancements to meet business and regulatory needs.
• Work from a requirements' backlog with minimal direction, ensuring strong change control.
• Collaborate with Business teams to align financial models with business assumptions.
• Assist in running efficient and accurate forecast cycles.
• Support the development of solutions to create a fast-moving CFO function.
• Understand the full forecasting process, from data sources to P&L, balance sheet, and solvency outputs.
• Train, support, and develop model users, sharing best practices and providing task coverage.
• Ensure timely business decisions in line with deadlines.
• Support the Finance Team to mitigate risks from single points of failure.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with insurance/financial services experience.
• Big 4 experience preferred.
• Extensive Anaplan financial modelling experience; Tableau and Databricks experience beneficial.
• Proficiency in data structuring.
• Agile change environment experience.
• Ability to manage tasks quickly and accurately under pressure.
• Strong communicator, capable of explaining sophisticated topics to all partners.
• Highly organized, able to work across teams and environments while maintaining precision.
• Problem-solving skills and outcome-focused attitude.

Additional information

This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure…

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
• A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
• Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
• Benefits just for you: our hub - My Benefits Box - is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
• Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
• Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business - for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate 'making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
• More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
• Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself - like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
• A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
• Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.