Senior Manager - Finance Transformation (Insurance Finance Change)

Job description

The Team - In Financial Transformation, we improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function and generate real insights to help deliver value to the business. Our mission statement is to create a sustainable practice which is recognized as being number one in the industry.

Our Financial Transformation practice is a priority area for significant and strategic growth and the team works with leading Insurance (Life and General) organisations, focusing on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of their Finance & Risk functions. The key drivers of change for our Insurance clients are Regulatory and Accounting change (including UK SOX, IFRS17, SII), Cost Reduction and Non-Financial Reporting  Transformation and our service offerings reflect this demand.

The Role - KPMG is offering a fantastic opportunity to join our firm as a Senior Manager in the Insurance Financial Transformation practice.  As part of this team, you will be working with a broad range of clients from the initial diagnosis, strategy formulation and analysis, through to implementation. Key roles and responsibilities include:

Delivery management:

• Independently lead delivery of large scale engagements (or significant workstreams within a programme of work) with accountability for the successful delivery of the engagement and client outcomes.
• Ability to communicate and demonstrate, through delivery, the benefits and ensure results are realised for our clients
• Ability to manage cross functional (and often global) engagement teams both internally within KPMG and external client teams across all strata of the organisation.
• Building rapport and maintaining relationships to support delivery of each engagement.  Acts as a conduit between KPMG and client teams and translate  ‘jargon’ into business terminology

Business Development:

• The candidate will need to be able to build and leverage both internal and external relationships to help support Partners and Directors in driving business development and sales activities
• Supports the continuous development of our propositions ensuring content is kept up to date and in line with the growing demands from our clients and market trends.  

Practice development

• Supporting the development of processes and initiatives that are key to scaling the business

Risk management

• Identifying and managing risks, engagement assurance and commercial risk management and ensuring the Firm's frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively
• People management & talent development:
• The candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record or leading delivery teams as well as developing teams within a consulting practice.  
• Act as formal performance manager for junior members of the team and actively participate in our bi-annual appraisal process
• Support the development of junior team members through formal training as well as informal coaching & mentoring capacities

The Person - Successful candidates should have excellent Insurance finance knowledge (including interactions with Risk functions) and demonstrate the following skills:

• Accountancy qualification with strong post qualification experience (or equivalent experience)
• Understanding of key performance, cost and regulatory change challenges across Insurance Groups, being able to translate industry challenges in to strategic solution
• Strong people manager, able to lead large teams and develop others
• Self-starting, pro-active team player that is experienced in working in challenging environments and within a multi-disciplined team
• Ability to liaise with senior Finance stakeholders - Ability to create and deliver high level presentations and output reviews to senior executives/stakeholders and business managers
• Ability to review and challenge information that has been provided by other team members, ensuring the information is ‘fit for purpose’ and at the right level of granularity
• Flexibility to travel 

Experience 
Successful candidates should have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Design of the insurance finance function and finance operating model
• Design and implementation of strategic process and control improvements
• Leading significant elements of a finance change programme in the insurance sector
• Development of non-financial reporting data, systems and process design
• Presenting and interacting closely with senior finance stakeholders on a day to day basis
• Senior role in an insurance finance function where significant change has been successfully implemented
• Cost reduction in an insurance group.

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