About the Team
A career within our Finance Change and Controls team will provide you with the opportunity to help companies on their risk and control frameworks, general accounting and finance advisory, IFRS 9 and 17 account standards, managing finance change programmes. We form part of a big team with over 70 people and offer a broad range of services. Our team are self-starting, agile and thrive on bringing past experiences to new and diverse challenges. They are happy to work as individuals or as part of multi-disciplinary teams to provide hands on, client facing services to our clients across the Insurance, banking, brokerage, and several other financial sectors - depending on your previous skills and experience.
About the role
As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to
execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
- Train and lead staff
- Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
- Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Essential skills and experience
- Significant experience of working within established professional services/consulting organisations or banks specifically focussed on regulatory/business change and/or front to back trading governance, risk and controls.
- A proven track record of successfully supporting work-streams within change/client engagements
- Strong client relationship, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with a good track record of dealing with stakeholders
- Good commercial awareness, sound reporting skills and the ability to work under your own initiative
- Strong oral and written communication skills (ie report writing)
- The ability to apply good judgement during engagements and to support conclusions reached to more senior level personnel both internally and externally
- Very strong attention to detail
- Project management
- Agility - an interest in working in a dynamic environment and on different types of projects in the capital markets arena
Desirable skills
- Ability to work under pressure within an ambiguous environment
- Relevant qualification - ACA, CFA etc
- Programme Management experience
