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Regulatory Intelligence Product Owner

Division: Beazley Shared Services – Data Management

Location: London (UK) or Birmingham (UK) - hybrid in office 2 days/week

Reports To: Head of Data Products

Key Relationships: Chief Data Office, Data Leadership Team, Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Architects, Delivery Team members, Technology Team, Compliance, Finance, Underwriting, Operations and other Business Stakeholders

Beazley is a global specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities, and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our products are wide ranging from cyber & tech to marine, healthcare, financial institutions, and contingency, covering risks like the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment. Collaboration in office spaces is important and we use a hybrid approach with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 1500 of us working around the world. Employee’s diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We hire people with wide perspectives, and we have set bold diversity targets as we work towards excellence.

Our Data team support Beazley’s vision by...

• Being bold through pioneering & championing an exciting vision of how people interact with data
• Facilitating innovation by leading the pace of change in data & analytics, and facilitating the latest capabilities and innovative technologies
• Doing the right thing by providing a controlled working data environment that allows all business domains to thrive independently
• Being the single source of truth for enterprise-wide reporting metrics and KPIs

Our Data team is located at multiple offices across UK, Europe and the US. The specified home office location options provide the best balance for being co-located with key Data Office colleagues and business stakeholders.

As a Regulatory Intelligence Product Owner your core responsibility is to develop and deliver a data strategy and data products supporting Beazley’s regulatory reporting. This requires a strong understanding of insurance requirements for Lloyd’s, the PCA, the CBI, among other reporting agencies. You will work with key Compliance leaders and stakeholders to develop the strategy and your team to document and deliver data products that are accurate and timely.

Data is one of Beazley’s greatest assets and our data reflects the complexity of our business. Our data is in the process of modernisation and automation. Your role will be essential to our transformation into a digital company to meet our ambitious growth plans. As a Product Owner focused on Compliance data, you will be responsible for a portfolio of data products supporting our business. You will work with business stakeholders to understand data needs, prioritize development, and create a roadmap of iterative deliveries of data products on our legacy and Modern Data Platforms. You will lead the transition to operationalize our data, leading to greater efficiency, higher quality data and better business insights.

• Act as a strategic leader in our data management organization, driving the data product strategy and delivery of data supporting regulatory submissions, such as: Eligible Complainants, Conduct Risk, ELTO, PMDR, RRQ, among others.
• Own a portfolio of data products and create a roadmap for iterative delivery of automated reports and enhancements.
• Advise the business on best practices and challenge existing structures with regards to systems and processes on any project with a link to data.
• Manage stakeholders through the report development lifecycle including requirements gathering, updates and expectation management, user testing, sign off and roll-out.
• Lead and inspire a team of business analysts and a factory squad to delivery data reports to your stakeholders.
• Design and build reports using sophisticated visualisation tools that optimise and enhance business reporting and intelligence across Beazley and support our teams to deliver enhanced outcomes.
• Collate, prepare and submit data for regulatory reporting, analysing the data to find conclusions.
• Identify and deliver improved and alternative ways of reporting, e.g. outsourcing, automation, increased self-serve, and analytical tools.
• Work in collaboration with other Product Owners / Capability Leads, within the Platform and across Platforms, to maximise alignment and data reuse.
• Support the Data Value Management team in implementing best practises in Data Governance and Quality. Drive the required level of data ownership and stewardship across your group of data products.
• Provide leadership, direction, development and support to direct reports (including off-shore resources)

We’re looking for candidates with experience building regulatory reports for the Insurance industry. The successful candidate should have experience with the Lloyd’s market and/or the Central Bank of Ireland. Candidates should be able to demonstrate technical data skills including data analysis and visualization skills. The successful candidate should have a passion for data and a curious mindset both for Beazley and the wider insurance industry. Great communication skills across all levels of seniority and the ability to represent Data to our colleagues, clients and regulators.

• Degree level educated – any discipline, or a proven level of experience within this role.
• Product Owner certifications preferable.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
• Highly organised and structured thinking and understands the importance of meeting regulatory deadlines.
• The ability to influence and impact business relationships internally and externally to Beazley.
• Demonstrable structured techniques for evaluating business processes and documenting user requirements.
• Strong data analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Motivational skills, team leader, worker as well as able to work as a self-starter on own initiative.
• Able to coordinate and challenge inputs from several departments, to propose and implement successful solutions.
• Confident and comfortable to make recommendations and suggestions.
• Strong stakeholder management, comfortable interacting with senior individuals in the business and externally with regulators

• Proven experience developing data regulatory reports in the insurance industry, preferably the London Market.
• Leadership experience with proven ability to inspire, manage and coach teams.
• Highly responsible, with the ability to quickly establish trust and credibility.
• Product Management, Ownership, or Business Analyst experience developing and building a data strategy, roadmap and data products to meet stakeholder needs.
• Ability to analyze and manipulate large datasets.
• Proven demonstration of problem solving.
• Use of various analysis and project management tools covering scope definition, requirements documentation and progress reporting, including Jira and Confluence.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and Power BI. Knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of Data Quality tools would be advantageous.
• Experience creating data visualisations or infographics and being able to demonstrate value through visualisation.