Finance Analyst

Who are we?👋

Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers’ legs. 

Ki’s mission is simple. Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days. 

Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years. 

Ki’s teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status-quo and help it reach new horizons.

Where you come in?

The FP&A function is responsible for Management Reporting, Financial Planning and Forecasting, and Expense Management across Ki. The team works closely with senior stakeholders across the business and has significant exposure to the Executive Committee, including the CEO, CFO and Technology MD. This role sits within the Expense Management and Business Partnering workstream, with the primary focus on expense analysis, cost centre owner engagement, and supporting the planning and forecasting cycle. Depending on experience, the role holder may also contribute to broader FP&A planning activities and Finance business partnering across the organisation.

What you will be doing: 🖋️

• Lead monthly engagement with cost centre owners, providing clear analysis of run-rate expenses, variances to plan, and actionable insights to drive expense accountability across the organisation.
• Produce monthly Executive Committee expense reporting material, including expense slides, headcount tracking, and salary reconciliation with HR.
• Support the financial planning and forecasting cycle, with opportunity to develop expertise in premium, loss ratio, commission ratio and investment metrics over time.
• Contribute to ROI frameworks and financial analysis beyond the Technology function, supporting evidence-based decision-making across the business.
• Support the Executive Committee on targeted expense savings initiatives across the business, including Technology spend analysis and procurement-related cost reviews.
• Develop and maintain an expense management analysis framework that provides forward-looking, actionable information to the Executive Committee — moving beyond financial reporting to decision-enabling insight.
• Support the build-out of expense dashboarding and data visualisation to improve cost transparency for senior stakeholders.
• Support expense planning and reforecasting, including migration from Excel to Anaplan and simplification of supporting models.
• Contribute to streamlining the monthly expense close process, including embedding technology tools (e.g. Gemini Enterprise) and working with Financial Control to reallocate operational tasks.
• Explore and expand coverage to related to non-insurance revenue streams including coverholder and technology licensing.