Stephen Clark, esure: esure are a leading UK digital insurer focusing on motor and household policies.
The insurance industry is very competitive. Customers are very price sensitive. The challenge is to work out how to use data to drive competitive advantage and faster decisions.
We use Anaplan in our financial planning, analysis and management reporting teams. Before esure used Anaplan, it used to take approximately half a day to turn a scenario through our financial models. Since adopting Anaplan, that is now down to a matter of approximately 30 seconds.
The use of Anaplan means that teams can collaborate together on a consistent data set and also spend the majority of time examining assumptions and potential outcomes rather than merely calculating the numbers.
esure uses Anaplan Workflow to enhance the control environment around our financial planning processes. Workflow allows us to evidence controls and sequence of events, including approvals, so that stakeholders are assured that processes are followed and the numbers are reliable.
The advice I would give to someone new to Anaplan would be to build your models around speed to decision.
I'm Stephen Clark, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis at esure, and we plan with Anaplan.
