Senior Vice President Finance – Insurance & Investments

About the role

The Senior Vice President (SVP) Finance is a senior executive responsible for leading financial strategy, performance management, planning, reporting, controls, and commercial finance across the Group's insurance, investment, asset management, and related financial services businesses. The SVP Finance serves as a key strategic partner to the Group CFO, CEO, Board, and business‑unit leadership, driving financial discipline, profitability, capital efficiency, governance, and sustainable growth.

Key responsibilities

• Lead Group and business‑unit financial strategy, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• Oversee financial reporting, management accounts, financial analysis, and executive reporting.
• Drive FP&A and commercial finance, translating financial data into strategic business decisions.
• Monitor revenue, profitability, expenses, margins, cash flow, and return on capital across the portfolio.
• Provide financial leadership for insurance operations, including premium income, claims, reserves, reinsurance, underwriting performance, and profitability.
• Oversee financial aspects of investment and asset‑management operations, including portfolio reporting, valuation, investment income, expenses, and performance analysis.
• Support capital planning, solvency, liquidity, balance‑sheet optimisation, and capital allocation.
• Lead treasury planning, monitor liquidity, funding requirements, and cash management.
• Strengthen financial governance, internal controls, policies, processes, and risk‑management frameworks.
• Ensure timely and accurate statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Actuarial, Investment, Treasury, Audit, and Legal functions on financial and regulatory matters.
• Provide financial due diligence, modelling, valuation, and strategic analysis for M&A, JVs, acquisitions, investments, and expansion initiatives.
• Identify and execute opportunities for cost optimisation and operational efficiency.
• Lead finance transformation, automation, ERP implementation, analytics, and management‑information initiatives.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with auditors, regulators, investors, lenders, and other external stakeholders.
• Lead, coach, and develop senior finance professionals and build a high‑performing finance organisation.
• Support the Group CFO and CEO with Board presentations, strategic reviews, capital decisions, and long‑term value creation.

Required profile

• Senior executive with extensive finance leadership experience in insurance, investment or asset‑management environments.
• Proven ability to act as a strategic partner to C‑suite executives and Board members.
• Track record of driving financial discipline, profitability, capital efficiency and governance.
• Experience managing complex, regulated financial services organisations.
• Demonstrated capability to lead large finance teams and transformation programmes.

Required skills