What would you be responsible for in this role?

Day 1 the candidates responsibilities would be:

 

• Setting up the Trading team

• Establishing a commercial culture within the team

• Building the strategy and governance for the trading function

• Stakeholder managing the Digital and Operational teams to ensure that systems and operational infrastructure can support the teams remit.

 

Following establishment of the Trading team the candidates responsibilities would be:

 

• Leadership of a highly capable Trading team consisting of circa 2-4 people

• Delivery of revenue in line with planned targets

• Identifying area’s of  market competitiveness and taking action to realise value and maintain competitiveness.

• Supporting the development of a commercial mindset 

• Stakeholder management across , including Pricing, Underwriting, Distribution, Digital and Marketing

 

Qualifications

Degree level or equivalent

 

Experience and knowledge            

 

• Experience of leading a Trading Team

• Extensive track record, working at a senior level driving transformational change

• Experience of assessing and distilling broad ranging research and insight, into cohesive strategies and firm recommendations and plans

• Experience of developing longer terms strategies and associated business cases (rooted in insight, customer needs/behaviour and emerging trends) to secure investments to deliver strategic initiatives

• Track record of leading teams to deliver excellence  

• Track record of developing and maintaining broad, influential senior-level relationships (internal and external)

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Skills/capabilities

• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written communication

• Strong planning and organisational skills and the ability to work to a deadline

• Strong numeracy and analytical skills

• Excellent Excel skills and some experience of systems development.

• Ability to plan and manage own work load

• Able to be flexible and work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

 

Behaviours

• Self-starter with a desire to get behind and understand the numbers

• Willingness to challenge results and processes

• Able to build positive working relationships generating confidence and support.

• Strong attention to detail

 

Qualifications

• Educated to degree standard or equivalent.

• Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent)

 

Experience and knowledge

• Experience in a Finance environment, preferably with Financial Services/Insurance background.

• Experience in a systems accounting and / or BI or MI environment.

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Skills/capabilities

• Excellent financial planning and analysis knowledge in the insurance environment

• Knowledge and experience in delivery of corporate management information

• Proven ability to coach and support members of the finance team at multiple experience levels

• Strong communication skills with all levels of internal and external stakeholder

• Strong controls experience

• Proven project management skills

 

Behaviours

• Confident in engaging at a senior level

• Self-driven, can work autonomously with a proven work ethic

• Team player who enjoys working inclusively with people from different backgrounds and disciplines

• Proactive professional in planning to achieve targets and objectives

• Hard working, be able to work under pressure and sometimes with challenging timescales

• Establishes and maintains constructive and collaborative relationships with all business areas

• Behaves consistently and with integrity at all times

 

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or CIMA) with extensive and relevant post qualification experience  

 

Nice to have

Skills/capabilities

• System design, evaluation and implementation

• Statutory accounting and financial reporting

• Insurance statutory reporting

• Solvency II reporting environment