Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world's preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.

Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we're bound by a common mission and purpose. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our Client Centric, Risk Centric and Technology Centric strategies

Built to be resilient, Ascot offers clients leading financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service - both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients' brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.

Ascot is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and automation across the organisation to enhance decision‑making, efficiency, and quality of outcomes. In this role, you will be expected to work confidently alongside AI‑enabled tools, apply sound judgment when interpreting insights, and adapt as technology continues to evolve. We value curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to embrace change as part of how we work.

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis US, the Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis will support and interface with corporate and business leaders on financial needs specially supporting:
Workers Compensation, Captives, Shared Risk Casualty, and E&S Casualty. This includes the creation of qualitative and quantitative analyses that provide critical insights enabling leaders to make data-driven decisions. Define, design, and build financial models, reports, and presentations to support internal planning and budgeting as well as to support external reporting. Understand key metrics and leverage financial information to deliver required financial targets.

This role will also serve as an FP&A contact for the FP&A function as it pertains to Adaptive Planning support, issue resolution, and the expense allocation process. This is a hybrid 3 day in office role.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Develop and provide leadership in developing budget, forecasting, and reporting for the corporate functions, guide corporate functions and business teams in the budget process.

* Manage and monitor Income Statements and consolidations for supported businesses and corporate functions. Drive actionable information and advice to corporate and business teams.

* Evaluate financial outcomes of various decision alternatives; provide management with information on potential decision impacts along with recommended options and action plans.

* Advise on key business planning assumptions, identify, and quantify risks, and/or opportunities

* Translate content needed for senior level presentations; ensure content provided meets requirements; assist in preparation of presentations for senior management

* Develop ad-hoc analyses and financial modeling support to the corporate function and business leaders

* Move forward projects/improvements that need leadership and support

* Support management roll forward reporting/management operating report process

* Provide more hands-on/ day to day support for team

* Support the increasing needs of the businesses on corporate functions transparency

* Oversee close review for corporate functions

* Enhance management information

* Seek out ways to continuously improve processes

* Manage/assist in preparation of presentations for senior management

* Lead the development and analysis of financial models that drive strategic insights and help address diverse business problems through expansion of more holistic KPI's

* Assist in the evaluation of our business strategy and initiatives relative to our broader corporate and business strategies

* Evaluate the impact of strategic decisions…