Interim IT Finance Manager - Insurance in London - Insight Recruitment Solutions Limited

Interim IT Finance Manager - INSURANCE

Exciting opportunity to join as an Interim for a complex, multi-entity insurance business managing IT finance across group operations. Take ownership of a an evolving IT budget, working as an internal consultant to drive process improvements, cost optimization, and cloud financial operations. This role offers genuine influence over strategy and stakeholders, with responsibility for modernizing manual processes and building efficient systems across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT budget forecasts and performance, reporting actuals versus budget monthly to senior leadership and FDs across the business
• Manage cost allocations, accruals, prepayments, capex tracking, and depreciation calculations
• Establish and enhance cost management for cloud services, optimizing current and future cloud adoption
• Drive process improvements and streamline manual financial processes for efficiency and transparency
• Work closely with PMO and project teams to ensure accurate change accounting and portfolio spend monitoring
• Support IT procurement through contract review, analysis, and managing procurement-to-payment processes
• Provide resource planning support across BAU and change initiatives

Requirements

• A qualified accountant with a background in insurance and IT finance
• Demonstrable experience of managing IT budgets across complex, multi-entity structures
• Deep understanding of IT budgeting, run vs change costs, and technology spend accounting
• Solid understanding of cloud services billing, allocation, and optimization
• Strong ability to manage senior stakeholders and explain financial concepts to non-finance audiences
• Commercial mindset with continuous improvement focus and ability to challenge status quo
• Self-motivated with strong work ethic and ability to work to tight deadlines
• IT Project and Portfolio budgeting experience

Our client is committed to diversity in all of its forms and operates an inclusive recruitment process and has a hybrid office working environment.