Assistant Manager, Client Money, Finance, 12 month FTC/Secondment

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Job description

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Finance Operations requires an Assistant Manager, Client Money within the Control Accounting team. This role is multidisciplinary and responsible managing the team that support client money accounts across the UK firm including ensuring compliance with the client money regulations, ensuring robust controls are in place that are closely monitored, providing advice, and sending client payments. The role also provides support across the wider Control Accounting Team, in particular releasing payments and ensuring financial controls are adhered to.

This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) and is part of the Finance Operations team in our Enabling Functions. The Finance Operations team supports the UK and Swiss Firms comprising 26,000 Partners and staff including 50 regional UK Offices and 5 Swiss offices.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

The role is a people leader role where you are responsible for performance management of direct reports, including regular check ins, development and feedback.

The role will lead the client money and office accounting team. Client money refers to funds held by Deloitte in trust for its clients and are kept separate from the company's own funds. The purpose of holding client money separately is to ensure that it is protected and can be easily identified and returned to the client if needed. This role is responsible for:

• The governance of controls across all client money accounts
• Maintaining a system of governance across all client money accounts
• Reporting to the Governance Board
• Engaging with Partners regarding their client account compliance responsibilities and provide advice on potential new client accounts
• Ensuring a robust client money Business Continuity Plan is in place
• Leading our response to internal and external audits of client money
• Ensure process notes are updated as and when any changes take place.
• Releasing payments to our suppliers, Interfirm and staff e.g. expenses and payroll
• Releasing payments in respect of our client accounts
• Releasing Treasury transfers / payments
• Identify and understand customer needs beyond what has been requested
• Enhance the controls that are in place, liaising with Financial Risk & Controls Team as appropriate
• Ensure compliance with the Firm's financial controls and ensure business continuity for key client money activities
• Conducting Quarterly meetings with Local teams to update on any changes in the client monies
• Proactively seek process improvements and establish agreed best practice going forward
• Proactively checking for new client money regulations

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Strong customer relationship skills. You will have excellent customer service skills showing attention to detail and a customer focus. You will be able to identify and understand customer needs beyond what has been requested. You will need to liaise with various teams across Deloitte ensuring the controls are in place, so it is important that you can demonstrate a professional, friendly and approachable manner coupled with the ability to communicate with staff at all levels, especially when under pressure.

Continuous service improvement. You will proactively seek process improvements and establish agreed best practice going forward as well as proactively checking for new client money regulations. You will be a good listener with a calm manner, and the ability to ask effective questions so that the right advise can be provided.

Essential Skills

• Experience of working in risk management or a regulated industry and implementing controls
• Demonstrate a methodical, analytical and clear approach to problem solving

Desired Skills

• Previous experience of SAP / SAGE
• AAT qualified or part qualified accountant (or equivalent)
• Previous experience of business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Previous experience of working within a finance function

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Central business services

We deliver world-class business support services for our people, our clients and our firm. From HR services, technology and digital support and pensions to facilities management, and more - together we are a true enabler for better business.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Deloitte has provided me with outstanding support as a new parent and enabled me to take nine months of parental leave and to work flexibly since I returned to work."

-Jim, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK locations 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. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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