Group Finance Director – Insurance & Investments

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential financial services organization in Trinidad and Tobago seeking a Group Finance Director to lead financial management, planning, reporting, and controls across multiple business lines including insurance, investments, and asset management operations.

This is a senior leadership position reporting directly to the Group CFO/CEO, providing strategic financial oversight across subsidiaries and business units while ensuring strong financial performance, regulatory compliance, capital discipline, and effective risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead Group-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management across all business units
• Oversee consolidated financial reporting, management accounts, statutory accounts, and financial analysis across subsidiaries
• Drive financial planning and analysis (FP&A), profitability analysis, cost optimization, and financial performance improvement initiatives
• Monitor financial performance across insurance, investments, asset management, and other Group businesses
• Oversee insurance finance including premium revenue, claims, reserves, reinsurance, underwriting performance, and profitability analysis
• Lead financial reporting and accounting oversight for investment and asset management portfolios, including valuation, income, performance, and reporting
• Support Group-level capital planning, solvency, liquidity, and balance-sheet management
• Oversee treasury, cash management, funding requirements, and working-capital optimization
• Strengthen Group-wide financial controls, governance, policies, and risk management frameworks
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, tax requirements, insurance regulations, investment regulations, and statutory reporting obligations
• Provide financial analysis for M&A, joint ventures, strategic investments, restructuring, and capital allocation decisions
• Partner with senior executives to improve business-unit profitability, operating efficiency, and return on capital
• Lead finance transformation initiatives including ERP implementation, automation, management reporting, analytics, and digital finance projects
• Develop and mentor Finance Directors, Controllers, Heads of Finance, and senior finance teams across the Group
• Act as key financial advisor to the Group CFO, CEO, Executive Committee, Board, auditors, regulators, investors, and other stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Experience Requirements:

• 15–20+ years of progressive finance experience, preferably within insurance, investment management, asset management, banking, pensions, reinsurance, or diversified financial services
• Proven experience operating at Group/regional/multi-entity level
• Previous experience as Group Finance Director, Finance Director, Group Financial Controller, Deputy Group CFO, Financial Controller, or senior finance executive
• Strong understanding of insurance accounting, investment accounting, financial reporting, capital management, treasury, and regulatory finance
• Demonstrated experience managing complex consolidated reporting structures and multiple subsidiaries
• Strong commercial understanding of investment portfolios, financial markets, capital allocation, and business performance
• Experience supporting M&A, corporate transactions, strategic investments, or restructuring is highly desirable
• Strong leadership experience managing geographically dispersed finance teams

Education & Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related discipline
• Professional qualification such as CA, ACCA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent is strongly preferred
• Additional qualifications in insurance, investment management, or financial risk are advantageous

Core Competencies:

• Strategic Finance and Group Consolidation expertise
• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Insurance Finance and Investment Finance
• Capital Management and Treasury
• Solvency and Financial Controls
• Regulatory Reporting and Compliance
• M&A and Risk Management
• Finance Transformation and Investor/Board Reporting

Leadership Characteristics:

• Strategic and commercially minded with strong analytical and financial judgment
• High integrity and governance orientation
• Excellent stakeholder and Board communication skills
• Results-driven and performance-focused
• Strong people leadership and succession-planning capability
• Comfortable operating in complex, regulated, multi-entity environments

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screening to assess your qualifications and fit for this role. Qualified candidates will then be submitted to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure a professional and coordinated process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed with qualified candidates during the screening process.

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