26 Commercial Underwriting jobs in London

Assala Energy is a dynamic Oil and Gas Exploration and Production company committed to the sustainable development of its assets in Gabon. We value a collaborative approach, promote diversity, and prioritize safety and integrity in all our operations.

As head of FP&A, you will share and lead the company’s global financial planning and analysis capability, setting the standard for insight, foresight and decision support across the organisation.

This role will be driving excellence in budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, capital allocation, and executive/board-level reporting. You will be connecting numbers to narrative ; transforming data into a clear and compelling story of both performance to date and road ahead.

By drawing on information from across the business, you will ensure Finance delivers forward-looking insight that enables decision makers to navigate the challenges of a capital-intensive and evolving industry. Your leadership will break down silos by building relationships across teams and geographies, whilst creating single source of truth through robust processes, automation and BI tools. A central part of your mandate is to elevate the financial and analytical capability of the finance teams in London and Gabon, embedding the strong storytelling and data-driven thinking across the function.

You will balance partnering a the most senior levels with diving deep into the detail, ensuring both strategy and execution are equally strong.

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Develop and lead a best-in-class FP&A process that supports both corporate strategy and operational excellence.
• Act as a key advisor to the CFO and Senior Management Team on financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Drive a culture of forward-looking, data-driven decision-making across the Finance organisation.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning

• Lead the annual budgeting cycle, ensuring robust assumptions, clarity of drivers, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Deliver accurate and timely forecasting (short-, medium-, and long-term), including scenario analysis and sensitivity testing.
• Introduce and embed rolling forecasts and planning processes to replace static, backward-looking models.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Drive and instil performance accountability culture ·
• Create a single source of truth for performance reporting, embedding automation, BI tools, and consistent KPIs. ·
• Introduce monthly reporting on the company scorecard.
• Partner with operations, economics, and commercial teams to translate financial results into meaningful insights. ·
• Deliver high-quality monthly management reporting packs and executive dashboards, including commentary, trend analysis, and actionable insights.
  

Investment & Scenario Analysis

• Introduce a robust capital allocation process, providing rigorous analysis and recommendations.
• Lead scenario planning to support decision-making in a volatile and capital-intensive environment.
• Develop frameworks to measure returns on investment and ensure disciplined deployment of capital.
  

Business Partnering & Influence

• Build strong relationships across London and Gabon, ensuring alignment and collaboration across functions and geographies.
• Act as a bridge between Finance, Operations, and the SMT breaking down silos and promoting shared understanding. · Train and mentor Finance teams in financial storytelling, analytical thinking, and use of data tools.

Requirements

• Significant experience in senior FP&A leadership roles within complex, capital-intensive industries (oil & gas, energy, natural resources, or infrastructure preferred).
• Proven track record of building FP& processes and systems, ideally across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong background in corporate finance, scenario planning, and investment analysis.
• Demonstrated success in delivering Board-level reporting, executive insights, and decision support.
• Experience working in emerging markets and joint ventures is highly desirable.
• Team player ‘Can do’ attitude
• Ability to work unsupervised and to a high standard with good attention to detail
• A self-driver who is hard working and committed, reliable and takes
• Resilient and able to adapt to change

The Assembly Finance team is seeking a detail oriented and driven Senior manager, FP&A.

The Senior manager, FP&A role provides an opportunity partner with key stakeholders across the company. In this position, the Senior manager will Support the Senior Director FP&A with responsibility for ensuring the completeness and integrity of forecasts, budgets, tracking performance, managing monthly operating expenses, and using analysis help drive informed decision making.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Senior Director FP&A and other business leaders to play a crucial role in planning and assessing the company's performance.
• Manage FP&A analyst.
• Contribute to the development of accounting systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintain client profitability reporting and forecast.
• Work with Senior Director FP&A and business leaders to maintain revenue forecast and pipeline.
• Work with business leaders and senior director FP&A to plan and carry out annual budgeting and quarterly / rolling reforecasting.
• Work with the accounting team to handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closes, ensuring all expenses are recorded accurately and reconciled to forecast.
• Own cash flow forecasting and management for Assembly Europe working with AP, AR and Billing central services to forecast and manage cash flow.
• Drive operational improvements through automation.
• Collaborate with other key stakeholders to monitor performance, identifying & understanding any differences from our budget plans.
• Build and maintain financial reporting packages and dashboards.
• Conduct research and analysis into issues and questions raised by leadership team to inform decision-making
• Partner with cross-functional teams to help optimise business performance, including identifying trends, gaps, insights, and opportunity areas within the business

About Assembly

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Requirements

• ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Prior experience in international, multi-currency environment
• Experience within media or marketing services advantageous
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Understand widely accepted accounting principles and financial concepts.
• Approach tasks with ownership, using analytics to guide decisions and solve problems, rather than just reporting results.
• Seek and implement ways to improve, streamline and automate processes
• Well-organised with strong people skills and ability to evaluate and communicate with Clients and Agency leaders

Benefits

In return for your enthusiasm and expertise, we’ll reward you with an enviable range of benefits that include, 24 days holiday a year (increasing by 1 day/year to a max of 30 with every year of service), a day of birthday leave, early finish Fridays, pension, life assurance, enhanced parental leave and access to perkbox.

Equal Opportunities

Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Social and Environmental Responsibility

At Assembly, we have a responsibility to bring impact into our every day. This means we must always look for ways in which to be conscious citizens in our roles to support society and environmental sustainability. We encourage employees to; be a conscious citizen by actively participating in our organisation's sustainability efforts, help us promote environmentally friendly practices within the workplace, collaborate with community organisations and stakeholders to support initiatives aligned with our company's values, participate in volunteer activities that benefit the community. Employees are also encouraged to make suggestions and evaluate our business practices to identify areas for improvement in social and environmental performance. Employees at Assembly demonstrate commitment to sustainability and inclusivity in their actions and behaviours.

Our client, a London based MGA, are looking to recruit a Trading Underwriter to manage a book of Property and Casualty business emanating from a portfolio of brokers in London and the Southeast, focusing on service and trading.

This is a hybrid working position, working between the City based office and home.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for the underwriting of new business quotations across their Property and Liability products and dealing with queries within the SLA's of the business. You will keep regular communication with the Business Development Managers to maintain broker relationships and act as a referral point for the Underwriting Assistants.

Candidates must have experience in a commercial underwriting capacity, ideally experienced in Property and Liability along with experience in conducting onsite broker visits.