Head of Finance, Prima
Automobile insurtech company
Job no longer available
Automobile insurtech company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To turn the insurance world on its head by making customer interactions more intuitive and immediate for a better user experience.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years’ experience in top tier investment banks or private equity, with focus on insurance or fintech sectors, or top tier strategy consulting with M&A focus
- Strong academic background, ideally in a top-tier business school or university
- Positive mind-set, ownership mentality and a pragmatic, “can do” attitude
- Content-driven, analytics mindset, with ability to get deep in the details as well as grasping the bigger picture and the business dynamics quickly
- Advanced financial modelling background
Desirable
- A genuine interest in mastering insurance and insurtech technical topics
- ACA or CFA Qualified
- Even if the team will be small (at least in the beginning), you should be an inspiring leader for the whole UK-based employees
- Great communication skills, for influencing other top managers based on data
- A passion for working in a small, agile, fast-growing environment
What the job involves
- Support the Country manager in defining strategy and targets at business unit level
- Enforce a local value-driven decision making process, generating insights and contributing to Group analyses for the Board of Directors and for investors
- Develop the business plan for the UK and coordinate the other managers to shape the annual budget
- Cascade targets to KPI at country and business unit level
- Coordinate a team of top-talent finance business partners to perform forecasts, monitor performance and provide business intelligence, analytical and negotiation support for each business line (including marketing, pricing, business development, claims management and customer service)
- Support managers on assessing new business opportunities
- Steer and maintain relationship with banks
- Be the main stakeholder for the accounting, tax and reporting teams as well as for the developers team responsible for the accounting tech domain
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Prima is an insurtech company that distributes online insurance policies for cars, motorcycles, and vans. Through its online services, it enables its users to save time and manage all aspects of their insurance policies.
The company focuses on offering competitive products and a platform that is fast, easy to use and that allows it to share the value it can generate with the application of data and the continuous implementation of technology.
The company now boasts over 2.5 million active clients and over €650 million of gross written premiums, Prima is one of the most successful insurtech players in the world.
Prima entered a very competitive but extremely traditional market only a few years ago. The company has already brought considerable innovation to the industry and are now focusing on expanding globally. As part of this, they are focused on increasing their headcount in the UK and Spanish markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2018
$115.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2015
$9.3m
SEED
Total funding: $124.5m
Company benefits
- Latest generation devices and tools
- Constant training (internal and external)
- Welfare and company benefits
- Team building events
- 8% of salary Training and Development budget
- Private HealthCare
- Remote Working
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Fully stocked Fridge and snacks
- Fully Agile working environment
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
George Ottathycal Kuruvilla
(Co-founder & CEO)MBA from IESE Business School and former BCG Project Leader.
Teodoro D'Ambrosio
(Co-founder)Investor and co-founder of several ventures, including Emaze, Hotelscan (acquired by JetCost), Bravoavia (acquired by Bravofly), Yeldo, Abiby, Impossible Brands.
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