Head of North America External Reporting

Beazley Group
$180,000 - $200,000
vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Connecticut, West Hartford
65 Memorial Road (Show on map)
May 21, 2025
General Head of North America External Reporting Division: Finance - Reporting, Accounting & Tax Key Relationships: Executive Management, US CFO, Finance Leadership Team, Head of Group Reporting, US Management Committees, Finance, Group Actuarial and Strategic Finance, Data Management, Ceded Reinsurance, US Regulators, Group Auditors and other Business Users. Job Summary Beazley plc is seeking an experienced and strategic Head of North America External Reporting to lead all Statutory and Regulatory Reporting for the US & Canadian entities. The successful candidate will form a close relationship with the CFO, ensuring a clear scope and framework for delivery, and will work closely with the rest of the finance team to ensure a consistent message across analytics, business planning, and more. Key Activities & Areas of Responsibility: Leadership Responsibilities Foster a culture that values employee experience, empowerment and wellbeing alongside amplifying the team's overall capabilities Develop and lead a sizeable team with a focus on customer service to provide best in class service. Ensure that all employees have the knowledge and skills necessary to perform effectively in their given roles, especially in relation to management responsibility. You will work with them to ensure effective training and coaching is provided to aid future career progression Key Activities Delivery of Reporting Services: Oversee the delivery of all reporting services for all North American platform entities, primarily Statutory & Regulatory. This includes, but is not limited to: Closure & Production of the accounts for both group and stand-alone statutory purposes Submission of all regulatory reporting to the respective Regulators Ownership of the Chart of Accounts Senior Level Review: Conduct senior level reviews of US & Canadian entity outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance. Relationship Management: Form close relationships with the CFO to ensure a clear scope and framework for the delivery of finance services. Production of papers for relevant boards and committees: Produce high quality outputs that can be used within the relevant Boards and committees to support the outputs of the team. This should require minimal input from the CFO/Business Manager where the Reporting team is the owner of the paper. Analytics Development: Develop a suite of analytics that can be used to support the reporting. This will be aligned with any analytics produced for the other Platforms and Group Reporting where appropriate. This analytics will support the robustness of outputs but also give the CFO support where requested. Collaboration with Finance Teams: Work closely across the finance structure to ensure a consistent message across various functions, including analytics and business planning. KPI Development and Monitoring: Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of delivery. Financial Impact Assessment: Ensure that the financial impact of key business decisions is considered and communicated effectively. Team Leadership: Manage direct reports who own the production of outputs for the all North American Platform entities. The role will also be responsible for leading and acting as an SME in change activity. Core competencies Core competencies in addition to those noted as specific requirements for the role and which are considered to be pertinent to the Expense team are as follows: Communication and storytelling: Excellent storytelling, communication and presentation skills to effectively convey financial insights, analysis and recommendations to decision makers Advanced technology literacy/proficiency: Ability to exploit digital technologies to drive better outcomes for finance and the business. Problem-solving: Ability to challenge assumptions, identify root causes and develop effective solutions Relationship building and collaboration: Proven ability to build strong relationships with business unit leaders and stakeholders. Ability to collaborate with technology teams to design intuitive reports, analyses and dashboards Continuous improvement: Ability to define success criteria and establish measurable metrics for monitoring tool utilization and quality. Ability to work effectively on a team that uses agile principles to continuously iterate the delivery and development of financial tools and solutions. Professionalism: Consistently demonstrates integrity, is highly credible, respectful and trustworthy and represents the expense team in a professional manner. Builds and maintains successful working relationships and is seen to go the extra mile Learning and development: Identifies strengths and weaknesses and seeks to improve performance. Recognises and takes responsibility for mistakes and learns from them. Continually seeks self-development opportunities. Regularly engages in self-assessment and gives/receives feedback to enhance personal awareness Adaptability: Effectively manages changing priorities in a dynamic environment. Seeks training opportunities to understand new working methods. Proves resilient in uncertain and difficult situations and adapts approach/plans/style as required. Responsibility and Accountability: Assumes full responsibility for the consequences of own behaviour and decisions. Delivers on commitments to clients demonstrating reliability and dependability. Admits mistakes and takes responsibility for correcting them. General It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley's core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing. We also expect Beazley employees to: Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups Personal Specification: We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverseandinclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds.We empower people to choose where to work given the work they need to do. Collaboration in office spaces is important but we do not mandate a set number of days in the office or from home - you decide what works best for you and the role you are in. Beazley will offer the person a competitive salary and discretionary bonus with a strong benefits package including commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, excellent parental leave and financial physical and mental wellbeing contributions among others. Relevant qualifications and capabilities are listed as follows: Education and Qualifications Experienced qualified accountant (CPA), with post-qualified experience in insurance Understanding of various accounting bases, including GAAP, IFRS, and US Statutory reporting Excellent knowledge of US insurance regulatory requirements, NAIC and various state regulatory mandatory Accounting and reporting concepts/theories, including experience with reinsurance accounting/risk transfer analysis, invested assets, corporate taxation, capital requirements, technical accounts, and the interaction of these Capabilities Coaching & leadership skills Stakeholder management and relationship building Customer focus with strong attention to detail Understanding of controls frameworks including documentation Experience of a deadline driven environment Analytical / Problem solving / Decision making Creativity / Innovation Who We Are: Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer. Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons. Our Culture We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers. Be bold Strive for better Do the right thing Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this. We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success. Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include: Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as: Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role) iLearn (our own learning & development platform) LinkedIn Learning Mentorship program External qualification sponsorship Continuing education and tuition reimbursement Secondment assignments The Rewards The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $180,000 - $200,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus. Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.