Financial Management – Insurance – Principal 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 FTSE 100 and large global Insurance companies, advising on major transformational finance change programmes including:

- 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 Partners and Directors to sell/deliver finance and corporate services projects

- Lead large programmes and projects

- Monitor, coach and develop others

- Present to current and target clients

- Support business development initiatives including bid proposal and contract/commercial management

- Actively contribute to knowledge management and new proposition development

- Build and maintain 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 and experience from Insurance sector.

- Shared services expertise

- Strong influencing skills

- Understanding of issues and challenges facing finance function and trends in finance

- Experience of proposal writing and presenting to clients

- Strong people manager, able to lead teams and develop others

- Experience of large scale project and programme management/change management

- Implementation experience

- Excellent understanding of leading practices for financial management/financial processes/trends in finance

- Experience in internal practice development preferred

- Business development/sales experience required