Who are we?
Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 150 distribution partners. We provide most of our insurance products through API, and hosts white label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform.
With a footprint spanning 32 countries and revenue of more than €900 million in 2023, mostly generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance.
Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to “enabling transparent and impactful insurance".
Role overview
Join our small and dynamic finance team in a pivotal role as an Insurance Finance Specialist. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in a diverse range of finance activities, providing exposure to various aspects of financial reporting and operations for our UK Office.
Become an integral part of our growing team as an FP&A Analyst, contributing your expertise in the insurance space. This role is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional with post-qualification experience to make a significant impact in FP&A functions within a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Utilize monthly management information for forecasting, scenario testing, and modeling.
- Monitor performance, conduct underwriting and expense analysis, and contribute to strategic projects.
- Support the development of tools, particularly Anaplan, and establish standards and processes for scalability and efficiency in FP&A.
- Apply experience in cash flow forecasting, particularly in a bordereaux-driven business.
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses.
- Provide FP&A finance support to accounting and business partner teams related to premium production, planning, reporting, and metrics.
Requirements:
Qualifications and Skills:
- Post-qualification experience within the insurance space.
- Strong knowledge of Insurance Products (GI/non-life) from an FP&A perspective.
- Experience with Anaplan is a significant plus.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications, especially Excel.
Soft Skills:
- Comfortable with change, uncertainty, agility, and flexibility.
- Ability to communicate effectively in various ways and challenge and support commercial teams.
- Detail-oriented, socially adept, and grounded.
- Demonstrated leadership and ability to take responsibility.
Interview process
- Screening interview with Talent recruiter
- Manager interview with UK Chief Finance Officer & UK HR Manager
- Senior executive interview with Head of FP&A & Chief Actuary
- Cross interview with central FP&A function (Head of FP&A & FP&A Analyst)
- HR interview with Head of Talent or VP People & Culture
Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!
You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!
More about us
Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty for autonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then the Wakam adventure might be made for you!
Discover on our website who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!
What we are looking for ?
Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:
- Think big
- Biased for action
- Curious and eager to learn
- Can say no and find solutions
- Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
- And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !
- Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds their role and knows their objectives.
- With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.
- Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day @Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
- Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵) with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program.
- Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself 😉)
At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.
