Financial Management – Insurance – Executive Advisor recruitment
Service Line Information:
In KPMG's Management Consulting practice, we don't limit ourselves to either strategy or implementation. Instead, we deliver both - equally well. Indeed, it's this broad capability that's seen us accelerate to become a 1000-strong team in less than five years. Since our creation, we've developed in-depth knowledge of an incredibly broad spread of sectors.
In Financial Management, we improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function and generate real insights to help deliver value to the business.
Job Description:
Roles and Responsibilities
The Financial Management Insurance team work with leading Insurance houses, focussing on Finance function strategy and organisation across the General and Life Pensions Insurance industries. Specific service offerings are:
- Finance diagnosis and strategy
- Finance function effectiveness e.g. cost optimisation/shared service centres/recovery and stabilisation
- Effective Business Intelligence including planning, budgeting, forecasting and cost management
- Regulatory change (e.g. Solvency II)
In addition you will:
- Work closely with Principal Advisors and Directors to deliver finance and corporate services projects
- Lead project delivery teams
- Monitor and coach others
- Support with presentations to current and target clients
- Support business development initiatives including bid proposal and contract/commercial management
- Actively support knowledge management and new proposition development
- Support the building and maintenance of client relationships
Qualifications and Skills
- ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent
- Strong communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting client relationships
- Able to demonstrate project management with a proven track record in delivering high quality project, work stream or assignment outputs
Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Finance function transformations
- GAAP conversions
- Solvency II / RDR
- Financial control framework implementations (including SOX)
- Cost reduction
- Finance process re-engineering including Lean/Six Sigma
- Finance systems
- Finance function sourcing strategy development and implementation
Experience and Background
- Consulting skills or stong relevant experience within the Insurance sector
- Shared services expertise
- Strong influencing skills
- Understanding of issues and challenges facing finance function and trends in finance
- Familiarity with proposal writing and presenting to clients / stakeholders
- Strong people manager, able to lead teams and develop others
- Experience of large scale project and programme management/change management