Insurance Consulting – Alpha FMC

Welcome to the Alpha Insurance Consulting Careers Page

Alpha Insurance Consulting is a provider of specialist consultancy services to the insurance and retail investment industries across business and technology.

About Us

To our clients, we’re a trusted partner as they navigate their biggest challenges, but to our employees, we’re so much more. Alpha is a rewarding place to work, an entrepreneurial and meritocratic environment perfect for building a career and an exciting place to meet some great people. We’re always looking for talented people to join us.

Meet Stuart McNulty, Global Head of Insurance Consulting

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Our Locations

We are proud to have a talented and diverse team across our key regions UK, Europe and North America. We currently have four offices in the below locations.

Please note we are open to having individuals based anywhere across our North American region.

London

Edinburgh

Paris

New York

What’s unique about Alpha

Hear from some of our team about what makes Alpha unique.

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Our Inclusive Culture

Ensuring a diverse, open and inclusive place to work is the bedrock of our culture, championed by our leadership and supported by our active Diversity & Inclusion Networks

Develop Your Career with Us

We believe the benefits of a long-term career with us are multi-faceted and personally transformative.

Entrepreneurial Environment
Flourish in an entrepreneurial environment and help manage our business
Develop your Skillset
Develop a broad skillset through a variety of client
Build your Network
Build an extensive network and work with high-performing teams
Tailored Training
Receive generous and personally tailored training
Robust Performance Framework
Be supported by a substantial and robust performance framework
Flexible & Meritocratic Career
Achieve success with a flexible and meritocratic career

Career Paths

You will be supported to progress through each grade at Alpha Insurance, with a formal appraisal and promotion opportunity once a year. We believe that time at level restrictions or promotion quotas get in the way of ambition. Promotions at Alpha Insurance are purely based on merit.

Analyst (Consultant FR)
With the help of their teams and dedicated managerial support, our analysts make sure everything runs smoothly and clients get great results.
Consultant (Senior Consultant FR)
Our consultants are experts in project delivery, working across large scale change programmes and at times, independently on smaller projects.
Manager
Managers are able to use their experience to know the most cost and time effective ways Alpha can meet clients’ needs.
Senior Manager
Our senior managers are experts in one of Alpha’s key practice areas. They take the lead on complex projects and are vital to the running of the business.
Associate Director
Associate Directors really understand Alpha and our clients. They take responsibility for the biggest projects and provide oversight on a number of clients at once.
Director
Directors are committed to seeing Alpha succeed. They provide oversight and play a key role in engaging clients and expanding the business.

Meet Our People

The Global Leadership work with our Directors and Alpha colleagues to execute on strategy and running the business, with a specific focus on internal operations, people and talent, culture and diversity.

Our Global Leadership Team

Stuart McNulty

Global Head of Insurance Consulting

Stuart is Global Head of Insurance Consulting at Alpha.

Stuart joined Alpha in 2007, and has worked across a wide range of client-facing and leadership roles – including overseeing a number of large-scale, complex client change initiatives, and developing some of Alpha’s most significant client relationships.

Stuart was previously Head of Asset & Wealth Management UK – a role he held for seven years, during which time he oversaw the four-fold growth of this business. Stuart was also part of the core team which led Alpha’s two private equity transactions, and the listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2017.

Prior to joining Alpha, Stuart held roles at Accenture and JP Morgan Investment Bank. He has 20 years’ experience in financial services consulting.

Contact Stuart McNulty
stuart.mcnulty@alphafmc.com
Dan Mahony

Head of Insurance Consulting UK

Dan is an Executive Director in Insurance Consulting specialising in pensions and retail investments.

Before joining Alpha, Dan was a Director in EY’s UK Insurance and Investments sector team. He has particular expertise regarding the UK intermediated distribution market and product innovation.

Dan has extensive experience of senior operations management within the UK life industry, with a proven track record of delivering successful business change.

Dan has also led numerous distribution change and strategy initiatives, across intermediated, direct to consumer and corporate sales functions.

Contact Dan Mahony
dan.mahony@alphafmc.com
Stanislas Vital

Head of Insurance Consulting France

Stanislas is an Executive Director and leads the European Insurance team at Alpha. He joined following a career spanning consulting and auditing across general and specialty insurance. Stanislas drives transformation programs in finance, investment and IT strategy.

Stanislas works across all stages of business transformation, from strategy, through implementation.

Prior to joining Alpha, Stanislas worked at Deloitte and EY.

Contact Stanislas Vital
stanislas.vital@alphafmc.com
Britton Van Dalen

Head of Insurance Consulting US

Britt is an Executive Director at Alpha and is the US Head of Insurance. He has over 25 years of industry experience as a consultant and with insurers and brokers across the property & casualty, life & annuity and health sectors.

Britt brings deep expertise in the insurance front office including distribution, marketing and underwriting. His project work is focused at the intersection of operations, strategy, technology and data.

Prior to joining Alpha, Britt was a Partner in Deloitte’s Insurance practice and held various sales, marketing and underwriting roles with Cigna and Marsh McLennan.

Britt holds a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Chicago, and a Bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University.

Contact Britton Van Dalen
britton.vandalen@alphafmc.com

Our Directors, Executive Directors & Some Of The Team

Duncan Ng’enda

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Duncan is an Associate Director within Alpha’s Insurance Consultancy specialising in life, pensions and retail investments. Duncan has over 15 years of experience in financial services, spanning retail and investment banking, wealth, asset management and insurance. He joined Alpha in 2020. Duncan specialises in business and technology transformation and currently leads Alpha’s Investment’s Platforms proposition. Since being at Alpha he has been involved in a number of major IT transformations, product launches, M&A and technology/operations strategy definition. Prior to joining Alpha Duncan worked at EY in their EMEIA Financial Services Practice.

Contact Duncan Ng’enda
duncan.ngenda@alphafmc.com
Gillian Batchelor

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Gillian is an Associate Director within Insurance Consultancy specialising in life, pensions and retail investments. She has a range of experience with focus on business design and change across the sector and delivering transformation programmes for investment platforms in particular.

Since being at Alpha, Gillian has led engagements covering operating model design, process re-engineering and platform transformation.

Prior to joining Alpha, Gillian was the EMEA Head of Wealth Technology at HSBC supporting the Wealth business alongside delivering large strategic transformation.

Contact Gillian Batchelor
gillian.batchelor@alphafmc.com
Keval Mehta

Head of Insurance Technology US

Keval is an Executive Director and insurance technology leader. Keval brings significant expertise within insurance technology and serves clients in insurance, asset management and healthcare.

Prior to Alpha, Keval worked at Accenture, where he was a managing director, insurance cloud and data practice lead, and was previously partner and practice lead in Deloitte’s financial services insurance cloud practice.

Contact Keval Mehta
keval.mehta@alphafmc.com
Helena Ferreira

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Helena is an Associate Director in Alpha’s Insurance team and has a strong background in financial transformation, accounting and investment. Helena has led a variety of projects in the insurance sector, such as target operating models, financial strategy definition and accounting implementations for insurers, reinsurers and bank insurers.

Contact Helena Ferreira
helena.ferreira@alphafmc.com
Tony Sault

Executive Director, Insurance Consulting

Tony is an Executive Director in Alphas General Insurance & Specialty practice. He has over 30 years industry experience working with insurers and brokers to deliver transformational change. He brings deep expertise across underwriting, claims and operations and has led numerous strategy and distribution projects, target operating model design and implementations and technology enabled operational transformation initiatives.

Prior to joining Alpha he was a Partner in EY’s General Insurance practice and before that worked for RSA.

He is CII qualified and is a Visiting Lecturer At Bayes Business School for Insurance & Risk Management

Contact Tony Sault
tony.sault@alphafmc.com
Huw Barker

Director, Insurance Consulting

Huw is a Director in Alpha’s General Insurance and Specialty Insurance practice with over 15 years of industry and consulting experience. He works across the sector, having advised global reinsurers, specialty carriers, brokers, retail insurers and banks across a number of consulting engagements including M&A, business and technology transformation, future operating model design, and proposition strategy.

He has an industry background, having started his career with Groupama (latterly Ageas) before moving to consulting with Accenture and EY.

A Chartered Insurance Practitioner, Huw retains a keen interest in the claims domain and is a reviewing editor for the CII’s Advanced Claims texts.

Contact Huw Barker
huw.barker@alphafmc.com
Hattie Elkins

Senior Manager, Insurance Consulting

Hattie is a Senior Manager in Alpha’s Insurance Consulting team who works with our clients on strategic and change initiatives, supporting them to shape their market participation and take-to-market strategies and the corresponding propositions and operating models to achieve their vision. Her approach centres on defining strategies that are customer-centric and authentic to the firm and its specific ambitions, strengths and capability set.

Hattie also leads on our Sustainability & ESG capability for insurance in the UK, working with clients in a collaborative manner to understand the market landscape and define future proofed and responsible strategies, that align the ever-evolving topic of ESG to the wider business context and culture.

Contact Hattie Elkins
hattie.elkins@alphafmc.com
Bradley Northrop

Director, Insurance Consulting

Bradley is a Director and leads Alpha’s Retail Distribution & Advice consulting practice. He has a range of experience and expertise in financial advice, platforms and wealth management working with firms to manage the delivery of complex change and identify strategic opportunities in the market.

Previous delivery experience includes strategy, proposition development, target operating model design and implementation, and process improvement. Bradley is at the forefront of change in the retail market helping firms to design and implement innovative propositions including the development of digitally enabled guidance and advice models.

Contact Bradley Northrop
Bradley.northrop@alphafmc.com
Catherine Thirlaway

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Catherine is an Associate Director within the Retail Distribution & Advice consulting practice. Catherine has over 17 years of consulting and industry experience, specialising in market participation strategy, product and proposition strategy and execution and mergers & acquisitions activities. In Industry Catherine has led business transformation teams and worked for Standard Life Aberdeen in a variety of proposition and corporate development roles. In consulting, Catherine has led market and product strategy, launch and review engagements, and advised a number of clients on organic and inorganic opportunities to grow and expand their business.

Catherine also has experience building and advising on investment propositions for the different accumulation and decumulation needs of clients.

Contact Catherine Thirlaway
catherine.thirlaway@alphafmc.com
David Clarke

Director, Insurance Consulting

David is a Director in Insurance Consulting specialising in general and specialty insurance. His career has been spent largely within global consulting and advisory organisations.

David’s client delivery has seen him shape and deliver projects of strategic importance across the UK, Europe, and North America. Focused on taking strategy through to execution, David helps his clients by injecting structure and creating space to move forward.

Operating at the intersect of business and technology, David’s track record centres on helping insurers and brokers with strategy execution, operational improvement, operating model design, digital strategies, and M&A integration.

Prior to joining Alpha, David has worked for Accenture, KPMG, and Capgemini.

Contact David Clarke
david.clarke@alphafmc.com
Miles Bishop

Director, Insurance Consulting

Miles is a Director in Insurance Consulting with over 20 years of experience in general and specialty insurance.

Miles’ career spans consulting, advisory, and global roles within industry in the UK, European, US, and Bermuda insurance markets.

Miles has a proven track record of defining and delivering business transformation. His focus is target operating model design and implementation, strategy definition and delivery, and cost optimisation.

Contact Miles Bishop
miles.bishop@alphafmc.com
Molly Doran

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Molly is an Associate Director at Alpha FMC with over 8 years’ experience in consulting and financial services. Molly’s focus is on business led technology change, with experience across all key phases of programme delivery lifecycle from discovery through to stabilisation. Prior to joining Alpha, Molly was part of EY’s Insurance Technology practice and previously spent time working at Accenture on large scale delivery programmes.

Contact Molly Doran
molly.doran@alphafmc.com
Andrew Colvin

Associate Director, Insurance Consulting

Andy is an Associate Director at Alpha FMC and has over 30 years experience in life, pensions and retail investments. He has held senior positions in industry, most recently as Chief Information Officer and Transformation Director. He has led engagements covering strategy development, core technology change and legacy migrations, target operating model design and implementation, and design/ delivery of major transformational BPO programmes.

Contact Andrew Colvin
Andy.Colvin@alphafmc.com
Keith Aylwin

Head of Insurance Technology UK

Keith is an Executive Director with over 20 years of insurance experience.

Keith has successfully led engagements covering strategy development, core technology change, target operating model design and implementation, process improvement and re-engineering, business process management, and distribution.

Prior to joining Alpha, Keith led EY’s Life & Pensions Technology practice, focusing on strategy and delivery of technology enabled business change programmes within Financial Services.

Contact Keith Aylwin
keith.aylwin@alphafmc.com
Emily Stapleton

Senior Manager, Insurance Consulting

Emily is a Senior Manager within Insurance Consulting, specialising in supporting wealth, pensions and retail investments firms with strategy and business design initiatives. Emily has supported numerous firms to shape their strategic vision and market participation strategies as well as their corresponding propositions and operating models to achieve their vision.

Contact Emily Stapleton
emily.stapleton@alphafmc.com
Rob Owen

Executive Director, M&A, Strategy & Deals

Rob leads our deal advisory work and has supported clients on over 90 transactions. He often works on transactions which will result in a significant change to the ongoing business, either as a result of an integration and delivery of synergies or as part of a divestiture and carve out.

Rob’s clients span asset & wealth management, insurance and FinTech. He works with a broad base of international clients who invest across multiple sectors both domestically in the UK and internationally.

Prior to joining Alpha, Rob was part of the PwC Transaction Services team (6 years in London and 2 years in Hong Kong) and acted as the synergy reporting accountant (QFBS) on four Class 1 transactions.

Contact Rob Owen
rob.owen@alphafmc.com

Our Recruitment Team

Henry Lee

UK Recruiter

Henry is an experienced recruiter with over 11 years in the industry with a mixture of inhouse and recruitment consultancy knowledge. Previously, he has worked recruiting into the Asset & Wealth Management industries as well recruiting for strategic consultant positions at Mastercard Data & Services. He is passionate about driving innovate and novel recruitment strategies to attract top talent to organisations as well as being actively involved in championing diversity and inclusion initiatives. His main role is hiring senior Management Consultants across Alpha UK’s AWM & INS boutiques, but Henry also works to deliver our early careers campaigns.

Outside of the office he enjoys gardening, furniture building and getting stuck into anything DIY related.

Contact Henry Lee
henry.lee@alphafmc.com
Bernie Ward

UK Recruitment Assistant - Insurance

Bernie joined Alpha in 2022 moving in-house from an recruitment agency role. She supports both AWM and INS recruitment for the UK. Bernie is passionate about creating a smooth hiring process and positive candidate experience by supporting the recruitment team in administrative tasks such as coordinating hiring activities, scheduling interviews, screening resumes, and maintaining candidate databases.

Outside of work, she enjoys swimming, going to the cinema and exploring nature!

Contact Bernie Ward
bernie.ward@alphafmc.com

How To Apply

If you are interested in joining us, we would warmly welcome your application. We endeavour to conduct a swift recruitment process focussing on candidate experience and value alignment. Please use the below buttons to see which roles we currently have open – you can will find more information about the recruitment process in the job description for each role. If there isn’t a role you want to apply to, but you would like to share your profile, please apply to the ‘Speculative Application’ role. To hear more about roles as they are announced, we would encourage you to follow us on LinkedIn.