Head Of Finance Milano

Head Of Finance
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Head of Finance

We are looking for our new Head of Finance Italy - this is a brand new role we are introducing in the context of our transition to become a leading international insurtech player.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we also evaluate who belongs to Protected Categories (L. 68/99).

The Role

Prima is an Italian tech company that has been disrupting the insurance industry since its launch in 2015, achieving a € 100 million investment from Goldman Sachs and Blackstone in 2018.

Prima now boasts over two and a half million of active clients and has started its international expansion: it opened its operations in the UK and will be launched in Spain.

Specifically, you will take care of these tasks:

- Support 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 Italy and coordinate the other managers to shape the annual budget

- Cascade targets to KPI at country and Business Unit level

- Perform forecasts and monitor actual vs targets

- Manage costs, with over € 50 million annual budget

- Analyze 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

- Coordinate the team responsible for reporting to 3rd parties (such as insurance partners and price comparison websites)

- Be the main stakeholder for the finance tech developers team, responsible for ensuring quality of finance data

**Requirements**:

Key Requirements

- 7+ years' experience in Finance positions, preferably with managerial experience, or in top tier consulting companies with focus on corporate finance or investment banks with focus on insurance or fintech sectors

- Strong academic background, ideally in a top-tier business school

- A passion for coaching and growing a team of high caliber colleagues

- Positive mind-set, ownership mentality and a pragmatic, "can do" attitude is key as we rapidly grow

- 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 skills

Nice to Have

In addition to the basic requirements, we will carefully evaluate these characteristics:

- Passion in simplifying processes, with plenty of ideas on introducing simple business monitoring dashboards

- A genuine interest in mastering more about insurance P&L and insurtech topics

- Great communication skills, for influencing other top managers based on facts

- A passion for working in a small, agile, fast-growing environment

**Benefits

Contract Details

We will give you all you need to express your talent and work at your best:

- Young and informal workplace

- Latest generation devices and tools

- Constant training (internal and external)

- Welfare and company benefits

- Team building events

We will evaluate salary and contract terms during the interview, in order to ensure you an offer adequate to your experience and to your competence.

The employment is Full Time and our contracts are regulated by the CCNL of Commerce.

Our office is in Piazzale Loreto 17, 20131 Milano (MI), but we also consider hiring for our offices in Rome, London, Madrid and Amsterdam.

Prima is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

The company prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by national laws.