Chaucer Group
Strategic Finance Manager
London
Posted about 17 hours ago
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Job Profile Summary
The Strategic Finance Manager supports the Head of Strategic Finance in ensuring that strategic decision-making is underpinned by robust financial insight, capital awareness, and long-term value considerations.
- Translate strategic options into clear financial implications, trade-offs, and outcomes, supporting alignment between strategic objectives, financial capacity, risk appetite, and returns.
- Develop scenario, sensitivity, and stress analysis to support Executive and Board-level decisions, presenting balanced financial options and evidence-based recommendations.
- Ensure analysis clearly explains capital and balance sheet impacts alongside P&L outcomes.
Job Description
- Manage key elements of the annual Group GAAP budget, forecasts, and long-range planning process, coordinating inputs, consolidating the Chaucer Group GAAP plan, and preparing materials for Executive leadership and Board meetings.
- Build and maintain driver-based models and produce scenario and sensitivity analyses covering P&L, underwriting income, combined ratio, return on capital, and balance sheet management.
- Analyse capital metrics, leverage, and liquidity forecasts, identifying key trends, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
- Prepare clear narratives, charts, and trend explanations to support strategic, capital, and ad hoc decision-making.
- Provide the Head of Strategic Finance, CFO, and Executive team with relevant insights and metrics to support constructive challenge of plans and forecasts, including balance sheet and reserving considerations.
- Partner with capital modelling, actuarial, business partnering, and other finance teams to understand and appropriately forecast capital implications using sound commercial judgement.
- Develop practical course-correction options and recommendations for consideration by the Head of Strategic Finance and senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate strategic finance deliverables, maintaining clear assumptions, controls, audit trails, and version discipline across models and analysis.
- Support continuous improvement of planning, modelling, and reporting processes, improving efficiency, transparency, and decision usefulness.
- Build effective relationships across Finance and the wider business, constructively challenging inputs, and communicating conclusions clearly.
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Skills and Education
- High-level finance or actuarial experience within insurance or financial services, with exposure to financial strategy, strategic modelling, and decision support.
- Qualified accountant or actuary, or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience in financial budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, profitability analysis, or business analysis.
- Highly analytical, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear insight.
- High-level understanding of:
- Financial strategy and value creation
- Capital and balance sheet dynamics
- Risk-return trade-offs in an insurance context
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence preparing materials for senior stakeholders.
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Key Competencies
- Strategic, analytical, and intellectually curious.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complexity, with strong attention to detail.
- Credible and independent-minded, with the ability to challenge constructively and escalate issues appropriately.
- Collaborative and relationship-driven, with strong influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proactive, organised, and accountable, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs.
Why Join Chaucer?
Chaucer is a leading global insurer operating in both Lloyd's and company markets, helping industries worldwide manage risk.
- We have shown strong financial success with our Gross Written Premiums growing from $1.4bn in 2019 to $3.5bn in 2024. Backed by strong teams, platforms, and client relationships, Chaucer is poised for continued success.
- We offer:
- A flexible hybrid work model that supports individual and team needs.
- A diverse, inclusive culture that values people for who they are.
- Extensive, non-contributory benefits, including medical, life, and pension cover, flexible holidays, and wellbeing support.
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