Audit - Senior Associates - Insurance - Bristol

The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, whilst giving our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through your home team, internal secondments and international assignments.

Our market leading Insurance practice is looking for Senior Associates to work in our Audit team. We work with a significant number of listed insurance companies, across all areas of insurance - Life, Non-Life, Lloyd’s and Broking. We value a strong collaborative atmosphere and have a great calendar of social activities which you can join, so you’ll feel at home with your new team. We have a number of initiatives in place to support the local community

A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Audit services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

Our team helps financial organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and fair presentation of our client’s information.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, 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 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

• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
  

You will deliver a range of audit services and business advice to a variety of clients of all sizes, providing an excellent opportunity to embed both your project management and leadership skills. You will be responsible for ensuring we deliver the highest standards of service to our clients from engagement planning, day-to-day supervision of the audit team, client liaison through to audit completion.

The way we work is changing and individuals are expected to be agile and able to transfer skills used in the delivering external audits to our other propositions.

Essential skills

• ACA or equivalent

• Focussed and initiative driven (required to maximise growth potential)

• Experience of working with clients in the UK Financial Services industry and more specifically Insurance industry

• A passion for delivering an exceptional client service

• Proven ability in leading audit engagements, including planning, controlling and completing a diverse range of assignments

• Strong analytical and organisational abilities

• Experience in supervising and developing staff

• Proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships

• Experience of supervising and developing staff through coaching

• Strong project management

• Knowledge of International Accounting Standards and/or US GAAP

Desirable skills

• Strong team-working skills

• Desire for continuous improvement

• Highly developed listening and questioning techniques

Location: Bristol;
Salary: Competitive;
Closing Date: 2nd of April 2020

Audit - Senior Associates - Insurance - Bristol

The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, whilst giving our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through your home team, internal secondments and international assignments.

Our market leading Insurance practice is looking for Senior Associates to work in our Audit team. We work with a significant number of listed insurance companies, across all areas of insurance - Life, Non-Life, Lloyd’s and Broking. We value a strong collaborative atmosphere and have a great calendar of social activities which you can join, so you’ll feel at home with your new team. We have a number of initiatives in place to support the local community

A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Audit services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

Our team helps financial organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and fair presentation of our client’s information.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, 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 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

• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
  

You will deliver a range of audit services and business advice to a variety of clients of all sizes, providing an excellent opportunity to embed both your project management and leadership skills. You will be responsible for ensuring we deliver the highest standards of service to our clients from engagement planning, day-to-day supervision of the audit team, client liaison through to audit completion.

The way we work is changing and individuals are expected to be agile and able to transfer skills used in the delivering external audits to our other propositions.

Essential skills

• ACA or equivalent

• Focussed and initiative driven (required to maximise growth potential)

• Experience of working with clients in the UK Financial Services industry and more specifically Insurance industry

• A passion for delivering an exceptional client service

• Proven ability in leading audit engagements, including planning, controlling and completing a diverse range of assignments

• Strong analytical and organisational abilities

• Experience in supervising and developing staff

• Proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships

• Experience of supervising and developing staff through coaching

• Strong project management

• Knowledge of International Accounting Standards and/or US GAAP

Desirable skills

• Strong team-working skills

• Desire for continuous improvement

• Highly developed listening and questioning techniques

Location: Bristol;
Salary: Competitive;
Closing Date: 2nd of April 2020

About the team

Our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) practice is currently the largest restructuring practice in the UK operating from 23 offices.

Within BRS, our Operational Restructuring practitioners work alongside Senior Executives to drive operational change at pace whether it be to reduce cost as a means of protecting margins, responding to a crisis or to realise the value of a deal or transaction.

We develop and implement realistic and pragmatic plans by applying restructuring and stakeholder management skills, functional knowledge, and proprietary assets and tools to support Executives in making difficult decisions and driving through change in a short timeframe.

About the role

Financial institutions are under significant pressure to make wholesale changes to their businesses and operating models as a result of the macro-economic and geopolitical landscape,increasing competition and ongoing revenue pressures.

We are expanding our FS team to support the increasing demand from our clients across Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Asset Management to transform their operations. As well as working with a wide range of clients, you will also work with leading practitioners across the Deals, Strategy & and Consulting practice within the Firm.

As a Senior Associate in the team, you will be part of the team responsible for helping with shaping the strategy and supporting with the implementation and rapid change delivery for our clients.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Bringing sector expertise and a demonstrable understanding of the challenges facing our FS clients to offer insights and value to transformation programmes.

• Assimilating complex information to identify opportunities for efficiencies and proposing innovative solutions to client problems.

• Undertaking market and client analysis (including peer benchmarking) to understand the clients’ commercial challenge and translating this into operational implications.

• Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry.

• Supporting with the development of implementation plan and strategy for clients.

• Supporting with the preparation of presentations and/or reports to key stakeholders (e.g. Board, senior management).

• Developing, managing and sustaining strong client relationships with clients and within the Firm.

• Supporting with the management of project economics and overall programme governance.

You will also be expected to actively contribute to the development of our team by:

• Supporting with marketing and business development initiatives (both internally and externally) to continuously develop our position in the market.

• Supporting peers and teams members, demonstrating care for their well being.

Essential Skills and Experience

We are looking for candidates with the experience of supporting clients throughout the operational transformation lifecycle from strategic opportunity assessment and planning through to supporting the delivery of specific initiatives.

Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the work, these candidates will have experience either in industry or advisory or ideally both and have the following capabilities:

• Both financial and operational quantitative analytics with an understanding of the business and operating models for financial institutions.

• Experience of delivering operational change and transformation programme.

• An understanding of the regulatory environment in financial services and the impacts on the operations.

• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders and diverse teams.

• Ability to manage ambiguity or conflicting priorities.

• High impact communication in the written and verbal form with extensive experience of development of power point presentations to synthesise analysis and communicate key conclusions.

• Evidence of collaborating of sharing ideas and knowledge.

• Ability to leverage technology enabled and digital tools to achieve efficient delivery for our clients.

The role is based in London, but requires flexibility to travel throughout the UK, with the potential to travel overseas, depending on client requirements. With an increasingly agile workforce, we embrace smarter working where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place.

About the team

Our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) practice is currently the largest restructuring practice in the UK operating from 23 offices.

Within BRS, our Operational Restructuring practitioners work alongside Senior Executives to drive operational change at pace whether it be to reduce cost as a means of protecting margins, responding to a crisis or to realise the value of a deal or transaction.

We develop and implement realistic and pragmatic plans by applying restructuring and stakeholder management skills, functional knowledge, and proprietary assets and tools to support Executives in making difficult decisions and driving through change in a short timeframe.

About the role

Financial institutions are under significant pressure to make wholesale changes to their businesses and operating models as a result of the macro-economic and geopolitical landscape,increasing competition and ongoing revenue pressures.

We are expanding our FS team to support the increasing demand from our clients across Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Asset Management to transform their operations. As well as working with a wide range of clients, you will also work with leading practitioners across the Deals, Strategy & and Consulting practice within the Firm.

As a Senior Associate in the team, you will be part of the team responsible for helping with shaping the strategy and supporting with the implementation and rapid change delivery for our clients.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Bringing sector expertise and a demonstrable understanding of the challenges facing our FS clients to offer insights and value to transformation programmes.

• Assimilating complex information to identify opportunities for efficiencies and proposing innovative solutions to client problems.

• Undertaking market and client analysis (including peer benchmarking) to understand the clients’ commercial challenge and translating this into operational implications.

• Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry.

• Supporting with the development of implementation plan and strategy for clients.

• Supporting with the preparation of presentations and/or reports to key stakeholders (e.g. Board, senior management).

• Developing, managing and sustaining strong client relationships with clients and within the Firm.

• Supporting with the management of project economics and overall programme governance.

You will also be expected to actively contribute to the development of our team by:

• Supporting with marketing and business development initiatives (both internally and externally) to continuously develop our position in the market.

• Supporting peers and teams members, demonstrating care for their well being.

Essential Skills and Experience

We are looking for candidates with the experience of supporting clients throughout the operational transformation lifecycle from strategic opportunity assessment and planning through to supporting the delivery of specific initiatives.

Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the work, these candidates will have experience either in industry or advisory or ideally both and have the following capabilities:

• Both financial and operational quantitative analytics with an understanding of the business and operating models for financial institutions.

• Experience of delivering operational change and transformation programme.

• An understanding of the regulatory environment in financial services and the impacts on the operations.

• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders and diverse teams.

• Ability to manage ambiguity or conflicting priorities.

• High impact communication in the written and verbal form with extensive experience of development of power point presentations to synthesise analysis and communicate key conclusions.

• Evidence of collaborating of sharing ideas and knowledge.

• Ability to leverage technology enabled and digital tools to achieve efficient delivery for our clients.

The role is based in London, but requires flexibility to travel throughout the UK, with the potential to travel overseas, depending on client requirements. With an increasingly agile workforce, we embrace smarter working where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place.

Job Description

Job Description

A career in our Mid Market practice, within Deals Business Recovery Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our clients survive an imminent crisis or simply fix gaps in their organisation. In joining, you'll help clients, among other things, reduce balance sheet stress, generate cash and reduce costs or refinance to find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. Whatever the solution, we help them manage road blocks until the job is done.

Our team helps companies of all sizes simplify their corporate structure and reduce overall operating costs. As part of the team, you'll help with project management, administrative tasks, dissolution, risk reduction and corporate restructuring.

Who we are looking for

An opportunity has become available for an Associate within our Corporate Simplification and Exit business (CSE). This person will be responsible for assisting the CSE management team in all aspects of the administration of solvent liquidations.

The successful candidate will also help develop existing client relationships, both internally and externally, and develop further opportunities with the assistance of the management team.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that all compliance and process matters are adhered to.

• To meet all client expectations with respect to the high quality of service expected from a professional services firm.

• Preparing company and legal documentation.

• Communicating with and reporting to clients and external agencies (e.g. HM Revenue & Customs) and updating them on progress.

• Visiting client locations and carrying out basic review of financial statements and legal documentation.

• Analysing company history, investigating information and undertaking research.

• Develop proactive project and stakeholder management skills

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Applicants must have a strong academic background, and work experience within professional services including exposure to Law, Accountancy or (In)solvency would be an advantage but not a necessity.

The Individual

• Confident communicator and able to deal with people on all levels in a mature and capable manner.

• Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.

• Flexible, willing to work overtime and travel to other PwC network offices and clients premises (as required).

• Fast learner with a desire to succeed.

• Clear logical thinker and organised.

• Proactive and self-motivated.

• Willing to embrace and learn new technology.

A career in our Mid Market practice, within Deals Business Recovery Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our clients survive an imminent crisis or simply fix gaps in their organisation. In joining, you'll help clients, among other things, reduce balance sheet stress, generate cash and reduce costs or refinance to find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. Whatever the solution, we help them manage road blocks until the job is done.

Our team helps companies of all sizes simplify their corporate structure and reduce overall operating costs. As part of the team, you'll help with project management, administrative tasks, dissolution, risk reduction and corporate restructuring.

Who we are looking for

An opportunity has become available for an Associate within our Corporate Simplification and Exit business (CSE). This person will be responsible for assisting the CSE management team in all aspects of the administration of solvent liquidations.

The successful candidate will also help develop existing client relationships, both internally and externally, and develop further opportunities with the assistance of the management team.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that all compliance and process matters are adhered to.

• To meet all client expectations with respect to the high quality of service expected from a professional services firm.

• Preparing company and legal documentation.

• Communicating with and reporting to clients and external agencies (e.g. HM Revenue & Customs) and updating them on progress.

• Visiting client locations and carrying out basic review of financial statements and legal documentation.

• Analysing company history, investigating information and undertaking research.

• Develop proactive project and stakeholder management skills

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Applicants must have a strong academic background, and work experience within professional services including exposure to Law, Accountancy or (In)solvency would be an advantage but not a necessity.

The Individual

• Confident communicator and able to deal with people on all levels in a mature and capable manner.

• Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.

• Flexible, willing to work overtime and travel to other PwC network offices and clients premises (as required).

• Fast learner with a desire to succeed.

• Clear logical thinker and organised.

• Proactive and self-motivated.

• Willing to embrace and learn new technology.

An exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and one of the largest professional services firms worldwide.

The role will be performed within the Reporting & Analytics pillar of Network Operations function, reporting to Analytics & Data Solutions Lead. Reporting & Analytics pillar has strong collaboration between the business and technical teams, driving innovation, an agile mind-set and a hands-on approach to all aspects of analytic application design; business requirements, analytics delivery, implementation, deployment and transition to business as usual service.

The Role

The role is responsible for the development and maintenance of Advanced Analytics capabilities, taking the ownership of ‘Customer Relationship & Engagement Management’ business domains to support the Network Operations strategic and operational decisions.

The role holder will explore and leverage the Business Operations data, predominantly related to the ‘Customer Relationship and Engagement Management’ data domains, to deliver data solutions and analytic applications that add value to the Network Operations decision-making processes.

Works in collaboration with the Global Data Operations team (part of the Global Chief Data Office - GCDO), to capture, organize, govern and refresh the data required for serving the Analytics applications and ad-hoc insight delivery needs.

Manages the internal stakeholder expectations, coordinates the technical delivery of solution components, assures the efficiency and scalability of the applications developed by the off-shore service delivery teams and monitors and measures the services received against the SLAs.

Responsibilities/Duties

Business as Usual Service Delivery:

• Manage the service demands and liaise with business stakeholders to verify analytic and insight needs and eliminate ambiguity.

• Manage Stakeholder expectations by providing achievable timelines for outputs and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction with results.

• Actively solicit stakeholder feedback for improving the Analytics services.

• Propose appropriate recommendations for service, process and application improvements and optimization needs based on user/stakeholder feedback.

• Promote the use of Self-Served analytics and insights delivered via the QlikView, Tableau, Power BI applications/tools)

• Be part of the CoE for Reporting & Analytics services and assist the Self-Service users, providing guidance on the applications served.

• Deliver and maintain the standards/principles, and advocate the best practice use of the Self-Service capabilities to ensure the consistency of delivered insights.

• Liaise with the relevant service teams (e.g. IT, SDC, GCDO ) to resolve any system availability and performance issues.

• Assure the Quality, Accuracy and Security of outputs prior to sign-off and release.

• Ensure all outputs include the terms & conditions clauses.

Application / Project Delivery:

• Explore the Business Operations data and proactively identify opportunities for innovation and application of advanced Analytics capabilities to deliver data-centric business insights that support business decisions.

• Facilitate resolution of complexities and simplification of solution options by bringing together business and technical SMEs, Solution Architects and other relevant resources.

• Manage the delivery of Proof of Concept projects and work with the Analytics and Data Solutions Lead to formulate the business case for any new and innovative products and applications.

• Work with Analytics & Data Solutions Lead to formulate the product roadmap and the at scale implementation strategy.

• Manage the transition of implemented products and applications into business as usual service.
  

Skills & Knowledge

• Management of Analytics resources to support simultaneous business demands whilst meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment

• Proven ability to solve problems, handle conflicts, anticipate issues/concerns, troubleshoot problems, and proactively institute creative solutions quickly and in detail

• Ability to establish strong working relationships with other dependent functions and departments.

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills

• Knowledge and experience working with Databases, BI tools and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, QlikView, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx etc.)

• Familiarity with Financial Services and Management Consulting industries

• Knowledge of working with large data sets performing data analysis, data visualization, data mining, and data cleansing/transformation/processing

Education (desirable)

• Educated to Degree level - Information Systems and/or Business Intelligence disciplines.

Experience

• Significant Design/Development experience of Analytic solutions

• Experience with direct supervision of on/off-shore delivery teams

• Proven experience of delivering data-driven insights related to ‘Customer Opportunities, Relationships and Engagement projects’, ideally in a financial services or professional services business environment.

• Experience working as part of a Reporting & Analytics team using BI tools (e.g. Oracle, SAS, Power BI, QlikView, Tableau etc.)

• Experience working with database developers and data engineers to ensure the data points are optimally tuned and structured for advanced analytic applications.

• Experience using open source data to enrich analytic outputs.

• Experience working in a Global business environment.

• Experience designing or working with relational, dimensional models and/or Analytical data marts/cubes (e.g. OLAP cubes)

• Experience working with SalesForce or similar CRM products (cloud or on-premise)

Key Stakeholders

Internal:

• Global Network Operations

• Global Clients & Industries

• Global Finance Operations

• Global Data Governance/Operations (part of Global CDO)

External:

• Other Lines of Services

• Client Relationship Partners

• Offshore IT teams

An exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and one of the largest professional services firms worldwide.

The role will be performed within the Reporting & Analytics pillar of Network Operations function, reporting to Analytics & Data Solutions Lead. Reporting & Analytics pillar has strong collaboration between the business and technical teams, driving innovation, an agile mind-set and a hands-on approach to all aspects of analytic application design; business requirements, analytics delivery, implementation, deployment and transition to business as usual service.

The Role

The role is responsible for the development and maintenance of Advanced Analytics capabilities, taking the ownership of ‘Customer Relationship & Engagement Management’ business domains to support the Network Operations strategic and operational decisions.

The role holder will explore and leverage the Business Operations data, predominantly related to the ‘Customer Relationship and Engagement Management’ data domains, to deliver data solutions and analytic applications that add value to the Network Operations decision-making processes.

Works in collaboration with the Global Data Operations team (part of the Global Chief Data Office - GCDO), to capture, organize, govern and refresh the data required for serving the Analytics applications and ad-hoc insight delivery needs.

Manages the internal stakeholder expectations, coordinates the technical delivery of solution components, assures the efficiency and scalability of the applications developed by the off-shore service delivery teams and monitors and measures the services received against the SLAs.

Responsibilities/Duties

Business as Usual Service Delivery:

• Manage the service demands and liaise with business stakeholders to verify analytic and insight needs and eliminate ambiguity.

• Manage Stakeholder expectations by providing achievable timelines for outputs and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction with results.

• Actively solicit stakeholder feedback for improving the Analytics services.

• Propose appropriate recommendations for service, process and application improvements and optimization needs based on user/stakeholder feedback.

• Promote the use of Self-Served analytics and insights delivered via the QlikView, Tableau, Power BI applications/tools)

• Be part of the CoE for Reporting & Analytics services and assist the Self-Service users, providing guidance on the applications served.

• Deliver and maintain the standards/principles, and advocate the best practice use of the Self-Service capabilities to ensure the consistency of delivered insights.

• Liaise with the relevant service teams (e.g. IT, SDC, GCDO ) to resolve any system availability and performance issues.

• Assure the Quality, Accuracy and Security of outputs prior to sign-off and release.

• Ensure all outputs include the terms & conditions clauses.

Application / Project Delivery:

• Explore the Business Operations data and proactively identify opportunities for innovation and application of advanced Analytics capabilities to deliver data-centric business insights that support business decisions.

• Facilitate resolution of complexities and simplification of solution options by bringing together business and technical SMEs, Solution Architects and other relevant resources.

• Manage the delivery of Proof of Concept projects and work with the Analytics and Data Solutions Lead to formulate the business case for any new and innovative products and applications.

• Work with Analytics & Data Solutions Lead to formulate the product roadmap and the at scale implementation strategy.

• Manage the transition of implemented products and applications into business as usual service.
  

Skills & Knowledge

• Management of Analytics resources to support simultaneous business demands whilst meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment

• Proven ability to solve problems, handle conflicts, anticipate issues/concerns, troubleshoot problems, and proactively institute creative solutions quickly and in detail

• Ability to establish strong working relationships with other dependent functions and departments.

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills

• Knowledge and experience working with Databases, BI tools and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, QlikView, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx etc.)

• Familiarity with Financial Services and Management Consulting industries

• Knowledge of working with large data sets performing data analysis, data visualization, data mining, and data cleansing/transformation/processing

Education (desirable)

• Educated to Degree level - Information Systems and/or Business Intelligence disciplines.

Experience

• Significant Design/Development experience of Analytic solutions

• Experience with direct supervision of on/off-shore delivery teams

• Proven experience of delivering data-driven insights related to ‘Customer Opportunities, Relationships and Engagement projects’, ideally in a financial services or professional services business environment.

• Experience working as part of a Reporting & Analytics team using BI tools (e.g. Oracle, SAS, Power BI, QlikView, Tableau etc.)

• Experience working with database developers and data engineers to ensure the data points are optimally tuned and structured for advanced analytic applications.

• Experience using open source data to enrich analytic outputs.

• Experience working in a Global business environment.

• Experience designing or working with relational, dimensional models and/or Analytical data marts/cubes (e.g. OLAP cubes)

• Experience working with SalesForce or similar CRM products (cloud or on-premise)

Key Stakeholders

Internal:

• Global Network Operations

• Global Clients & Industries

• Global Finance Operations

• Global Data Governance/Operations (part of Global CDO)

External:

• Other Lines of Services

• Client Relationship Partners

• Offshore IT teams