Expense Finance Manager - IT in London - Insight Recruitment Solutions Limited

Expense Finance Manager - IT / Insurance

Exciting opportunity to join the senior Leadership Team of 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 is essential. Candidates without the insurance experience are unfortuantely not suitable.
• Experience 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

What's On Offer

Lead IT finance transformation in a complex, growing insurance business where your impact will be highly visible. Work directly with FDs, COOs, and senior leadership across multiple entities with genuine autonomy to drive change. Opportunity to modernize financial processes, implement cloud cost management strategies, and shape the future of IT financial operations in an evolving environment with significant scope for professional growth.

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