FT Consulting (Insurance) Assistant Manager

Summary of Role Purpose:

Assistant Manager in the FS Financial Transformation Team focussed on project delivery within our insurance sector practice.

Description of the role:

In this role you will be working as part of a cross-functional team, supporting a broad range of insurance sector clients from the initial diagnosis, design, and analysis, through to end-to-end implementation of insurance sector finance transformation projects.

Role dimensions:

Management:

• Support the delivery of a workstream/multiple workstreams of major finance transformation projects, managing a set of deliverables (and dependencies) to budget.
• Attention to detail to ensure that deliverables are of high-quality and pitched at the right level
• Provide coaching to more junior members of the team both on engagements and more broadly in a mentoring role

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

• Support partner/director/senior manager with client stakeholder management
• Support partner/director/senior manager on key proposition development or RFP responses.
• Relationship building with clients at workstream delivery level.

Risk, Accountability & Governance:

• Support risk management procedures on engagements
• Proactively identify and escalate risks and issues (with proposed solutions) to the partner/director/senior manager of the engagement as appropriate

The Person:

Essential experience

• A good understanding of insurance industry (Life, GI and/or London Market), key regulations and typical challenges faced by the Finance function.
• Able to articulate the typical key processes, controls, data and systems that underpin an insurers finance operations/reporting.
• An understanding of roles and structures in an insurer’s finance function.
• Good broad knowledge of the Finance function and Finance operating models
• Either:
  • hands on experience on Finance Insurance Transformation projects such as ERP implementation, Target Operating model design, IFRS 17, Solvency II, ESG reporting either as a consultant or in industry; or
  • experience as an auditor of insurance companies with a strong understanding of finance systems & data, processes and controls and desire/aptitude to move into a consulting role.
• Project management experience
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to present with impact
• Ability to organise and successfully deliver multiple work items concurrently to time
• Experience in working as part of cross-functional teams

Grade:

Assistant Manager

Job Title:

FT Consulting (Insurance) Assistant Manager

Locations:

London

Capability:

Consulting

Service Line:

Finance Transformation

Contract Type:

Permanent

The Job Description:

As part of this role, you can expect to:

Client Delivery

• Support delivery of workstreams on insurance finance transformation projects/programmes
• Work in a project environment and effectively work alongside client staff, contractor staff and KPMG employees as part of blended teams with oversight.
• Support design and delivery of people, process, data and/or system solutions.
• Independently produce good quality analysis and reports that will be delivered to clients.

Business Development

• Support the development of core Insurance finance transformation propositions.
• Support the pursuit of business development opportunities including supporting writing proposals.
• Demonstrate a keen commercial understanding, and the role KPMG can play in delivering market opportunities.

Practice Development

• Support the development of processes and initiatives to scale delivery.
• Support the development of in-house solutions to support our key propositions.
• Support initiatives to grow and promote the practice internally and externally.

People Management

• Support the development of more junior team members

KPMG Overview:

KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues we bring our creativity, insight and experience to solve our clients’ and communities’ biggest problems. We’ve been doing this for more than 150 years.

We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.