Senior Manager - Finance Transformation (Insurance Finance Change)
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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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