Expenses Workstream Lead (Life Insurance)

Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 20/10/2026

Role: Finance / Expense Transformation Lead (Life Insurance)

Location: London / Hybrid

StartDate: ASAP

EndDate: 3- 6 Months, with a strong chance of extension

This is an exciting opportunity to joinDeloitte Operations for an engagement with one of our Life Insurance clients.

The Role

• Expenses Workstream Lead within alarge-scale finance transformation programme for a FTSE 100 life insuranceclient.
  
• Lead the design and delivery of theExpenses workstream, covering expense management, cost allocation, servicecompany billing and management information/reporting.
  
• Own and drive key workstream activities,requirements, design decisions, dependencies and deliverables.
  
• Lead discussions with senior clientstakeholders, providing appropriate challenge and helping drive resolutionof key design questions.
  
• Manage and provide direction to a smallteam of approximately 1–3 junior resources.
  

Required Skills& Experience

• Approximately 5–10 years' relevantexperience, with sufficient seniority and credibility to lead a workstreamand engage directly with senior client stakeholders.
  
• Strong Finance and/or FP&Aexperience within life insurance, ideally covering:
  
• Expense management and cost control
  
• Cost allocation methodologies andprocesses
  
• Management information and reporting
  
• Any experience of expense reserving is abonus.
  
• Good understanding of the life insurancefinancial and regulatory reporting environment, with exposure to SolvencyII, IFRS and/or IFRS 17 beneficial.
  
• Previous experience working on a financetransformation or major finance change programme.
  
• Strong project/workstream managementskills, with the ability to independently drive activities through tocompletion.
  
• Strong stakeholder management andcommunication skills, including confidence facilitating discussions,constructively challenging stakeholders and debating key design decisions.
  
• Experience of Oracle would bebeneficial, particularly Oracle Enterprise Profitability and CostManagement (EPCM) and allocation & billing functionality.
  
• Previous team management or coachingexperience would be beneficial given responsibility for junior resources.
  

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