We are working with a specialty reinsurance MGA that is looking to appoint an experienced Interim Finance Director on an initial 6–9 month contract.
This is a senior finance leadership role, partnering closely with the executive team to provide clear financial insight, strengthen financial controls, improve reporting, and drive commercial decision-making during a period of change.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a senior finance partner to the executive leadership team, providing commercial insight, constructive challenge, and financial guidance.
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting processes.
- Drive improvements across management information, financial controls, cash management, and working capital.
- Partner with underwriting, actuarial, operations, and other senior stakeholders to assess performance and commercial opportunities.
- Ensure accurate and timely month-end, year-end, audit, and regulatory reporting.
- Identify and address financial, reporting, and control weaknesses.
- Lead and develop the finance team, ensuring the appropriate level of capability, structure, and accountability.
- Support finance transformation, process improvement, and systems development.
- Establish effective finance processes and governance, leaving a sustainable framework in place for the permanent Finance Director.
About You
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
- Proven Finance Director or senior finance leadership experience within an MGA, insurance carrier, or insurance broker — this is essential.
- Strong understanding of insurance finance and commercial drivers.
- Experience across FP&A, management reporting, financial control, cash management, and forecasting.
- Comfortable operating within complex, multi-product, or multi-business environments.
- Proven track record of delivering within interim, transformation, or change environments.
- Commercially astute, analytical, and confident in challenging senior stakeholders.
- Pragmatic, hands-on, and able to make an immediate impact.