Ryan Specialty
Senior Finance Business Partner
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Position Summary
The Senior Finance Business Partner (SFBP) is a key strategic leader within the finance function, responsible for driving financial performance, shaping business strategy, and influencing senior stakeholders across the organisation. This role goes beyond traditional finance support, providing forward-looking insights, challenging decision-making, and leading financial planning across underwriting, claims, and operational areas. The SFBP will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring financial considerations are embedded in all key business decisions.
Location: London - UK - Fenchurch
What will your job entail?
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnering & Leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders (e.g., Managing Directors, Heads of Underwriting, Claims Directors)
- Influence and shape strategic decisions through robust financial insight and challenge
- Drive a culture of commercial awareness and financial accountability across the business
- Lead and develop a high-performing finance business partnering team (where applicable)
- Represent finance in strategic forums, governance committees, and executive discussions
Financial Strategy & Planning
- Lead the development of annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term business plans
- Provide strategic insight on growth opportunities, capital allocation, and portfolio optimisation
- Develop and oversee scenario modelling to assess business risks and opportunities
- Support M&A activity, business cases, and investment decisions with robust financial analysis
Performance & Value Management
- Own performance analysis across key insurance metrics (e.g., combined ratio, loss ratio, expense ratio)
- Provide deep insight into profitability by product line, geography, and distribution channel
- Identify value creation opportunities and drive initiatives to improve margins and efficiency
- Lead performance review processes with senior leadership, including Board-level reporting
Insurance-Specific Expertise
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- Provide expert insight into underwriting performance, claims development, and reserving impacts
- Partner closely with actuarial teams to understand assumptions, pricing models, and capital implications
- Support portfolio management decisions, including risk appetite and underwriting strategy
- Contribute to capital modelling, reinsurance strategy, and regulatory considerations (e.g., Solvency II)
Governance, Risk & Control
- Ensure strong financial governance, controls, and compliance with regulatory requirements
- Oversee the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting and planning outputs
- Identify and mitigate financial risks across the business
- Support regulatory reporting and interactions where required
Transformation & Continuous Improvement
- Lead finance transformation initiatives to enhance insight, efficiency, and automation
- Improve data quality, reporting capabilities, and use of analytics/BI tools
- Drive standardisation and best practice across finance processes
- Champion the use of data-driven decision-making across the organisation
Key Skills & Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Extensive experience in finance business partnering within insurance or financial services
- Strong understanding of insurance financials (e.g., underwriting cycles, reserving, claims dynamics, capital requirements)
- Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic outcomes
- Advanced financial modelling, planning, and analytical capability
- Experience leading teams and developing talent
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate financial data into business strategy
- Experience with finance systems, data tools, and performance reporting frameworks
Disclaimer
Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization. Our vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions. Differences in race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients, trading partners, and communities. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms, conditions, and benefits of employment.
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Ryan Specialty, LLC and its affiliates (“Ryan Specialty”) do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted by any staffing agencies, placement services or professional recruiters (“Agencies”), including any submissions made through our website or to email accounts of Ryan Specialty employees. Agencies must be registered in Ryan Specialty’s agency portal and have a fully executed contract for service between Ryan Specialty and the Agency. Agency fee agreements will only be valid if provided in such fully executed contract between Ryan Specialty and the Agency. Any unsolicited resume or candidate profile received from an Agency without prior approval from Ryan Specialty’s HR department and in compliance with Ryan Specialty’s candidate submission process shall be considered unsolicited, gratuitous and property of Ryan Specialty for recruiting purposes and, as such, is not subject to payment of any Agency fees.
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