FP&A Associate

Context for the Role:

Ardonagh is one of the worlds largest and fastest growing insurance distribution businesses. It owns a number of specialty distribution and underwriting services businesses with consolidated annual revenues in excess of £2billion. Ardonagh has substantial operations in the UK (including Specialty and P&C) and fast-growing P&C platforms in Europe, APAC and Latin America. Ardonagh is jointly owned by funds controlled by HPS Investment Partners, LLC, Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and management. Ardonagh Europe is composed of a number of highly successful buy and build insurance intermediary businesses.

In 2023, it established a new Italian trading company, Ardonagh Italia, to drive forward Ardonagh’s growth strategy. Italy plays a key role in Ardonagh’s European strategy, given the size of the insurance market and its level of sophistication. The objective of Ardonagh Italia and of Ardonagh Group, in general, is to acquire and consolidate a number of Italian based insurance distribution platforms and to create a new force in the Italian insurance distribution market. In 2024 and 2025 Ardonagh Italia announced a series of acquisitions and new launches, making it a Top 10 broker in Italy.

This role will be with the Ardonagh Italia business and will play a key part in supporting the growth of Ardonagh Italia. The FP&A Associate will work as part of a small team of M&A and finance professionals. The FP&A Associate will report to the Head of FP&A in Ardonagh Italia and work closely with senior leadership within Ardonagh Italia. It is a key role to ensure the business sets and meets appropriate financial targets and has all available information for senior level decision making.

Key Role Accountabilities:

Ardonagh Italia Growth

• Support process of identifying opportunities to deliver both revenue enhancement and cost efficiencies while driving the development of a superior operating capability and sustainable competitive advantage in markets
• Support the transition of the investment thesis financial forecasts to BAU financial plan with clear ownership for plan delivery
• Provide financial and commercial decision-making support across the business as and when required.
• Support the annual budgeting process including preparing detailed annual budgets and rolling reforecast models interacting with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Production of monthly management reporting packs and monitoring and explain business performance.
• Continuously improve the annual budgeting model for P&L, cash-flow and balance sheet.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Finance qualification (e.g. relevant masters or qualified accountant) with 1 -3 years experience.
• Excellent Excel modeling and Powerpoint skills, with ability to manage very detailed data.
• Demonstrated capability of quickly accumulating commercial knowledge on a variety of different businesses.
• Very strong business analytics capability.
• Experience of the insurance industry would be of benefit but not essential.

Person Specification:

• Excellent financial analysis skills - including the ability to critically assess and articulate the value drivers of a business.
• Excellent presentation and report writing skills - displaying a clear thought process and a well developed ability to clearly communicate complex messages in all mediums of communication.
• Strategic thinker - able to develop and consider the strategic implications of acquisition opportunities.
• Effective communication style - with a logical, structured, clear, credible and collaborative format.
• Strong interpersonal skills - the ability to articulate messages to different parts of the organisation and to external parties.
• Self-motivated - with a strong work ethic and an ability to service multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Agility and flexibility - demonstrate agility and ability to get things done in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, effectively handling multiple, rapidly changing and conflicting priorities.
• Strong attention to detail - to ensure completeness and accuracy of information.