Senior Manager, Accounting Advisory, Insurance, Audit & Assurance job with Deloitte | 13058881

Senior Manager, Accounting Advisory, Insurance, Audit & Assurance

Job description

Connect to your Industry

For those charged with governance, the focus on setting clear, high quality reporting standards has never been greater. The Financial Assurance team specialise in assuring the financial statement, transactions and accounting. By collaborating with other teams and our global network of specialists, they deliver assurance that protects the public interest and fosters even greater levels of trust, underpinned by our priority focus on quality.

Our Assurance clients include some of the largest, most successful and fast-growing companies across the globe. They are complex, influential and exciting. You will be principally focused on improving the reliability and efficiency of finance processes and controls for external financial reporting with an impressive portfolio of clients.

We are seeking experienced and technical professionals with an accounting assurance and/or industry background to join our fast growing team, share in our vision, support our growth plans and make an impact that matters on our clients, our people, our business and society.

Connect to your opportunity

Our Assurance practice encompasses skills across regulation and finance with a deep analytics capability. We harness these to provide Assurance to those charged with governance, serving the public interest. Working in Assurance means you will have an opportunity to work alongside leading experts, as we help build and enhance trust between businesses and the public, by responding to emerging issues and protecting the public interest. Providing assurance to help businesses become more resilient, agile and better prepared for the future.

This role offers a variety of exciting opportunities to add value to our clients through a range of projects, including complex accounting assurance services, pre and post transaction support, GAAP conversions and new accounting standard support. The extent of our offerings will ensure you gain an unrivalled breadth of varied and well-rounded experience working with some of the most complex, fastest growing and exciting companies across the globe.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Manager within our Insurance group. As a Senior Manager within Accounting Advisory, you will have responsibility for delivering high quality accounting advice to our clients, specifically:

1. Leading the implementation and application of new accounting standards and providing challenges on the accounting for complex transactions
2. Act as the lead subject matter expert for the audit teams on complex accounting judgements
3. Leading seamless joined up expert input alongside other Deloitte teams such as actuarial, tax, risk, and regulatory experts
4. Leading transaction accounting support to audit teams and assurance clients
5. Leading accounting policy and financial statements reviews

In addition to the above, you will:

1. Lead your team to be better than the rest at using IFRS and/or UK GAAP to solve firm issues
2. Grow internal and external networks
3. Lead diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
4. Identify and develop assurance opportunities with new and existing clients of the firm based on their bespoke needs
5. Establish and maintain key relationships across our insurance client base, with a focus on exceptional client service
6. Oversee, manage and deliver positive engagement economics metrics
7. Drive the business and practice development and thought leadership activities.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

1. A qualified accountant with experience of leading, managing and working within the accounting team of a professional services firm, accounting policy department or front office within insurance or delivering large listed IFRS or UK GAAP audits within relevant industry.
2. A proven track record in establishing and maintaining excellent relationships with clients
3. Significant experience of leading accounting advice for complex IFRS and/or UK GAAP accounting issues
4. An ability to quickly develop solutions in a fluid and fast changing environment.
5. The ability to work under own initiative and in many different and stimulating environments
6. Significant presentation and business writing experience.

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our innovative virtual communities based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing.