Insurance Accounting Assistant Manager/Manager

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We believe we're best positioned to make a meaningful impact on the economy. Every day, we provide a diverse range of organisations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insights empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, we help businesses, communities and our people to flourish.

Job Description:

Grant Thornton's Insurance Accounting advisory team specialises in helping clients with technical accounting and financial reporting issues, the implementation of IFRS/UK GAAP accounting standards, and conversions.

You will play a key role in the Insurance Accounting Advisory team. You will work with insurance clients and support and contribute to the delivery of solutions and value-added advice on complex accounting issues. This may include supporting IFRS 17/9 implementation, finance system implementation (for e.g., GL), IFRS / UK GAAP conversion support, accounting policy review projects, technical accounting and reporting issues, group reorganisations, M&A and ad-hoc accounting support.

Let's talk about the job

If you enjoy working on a wide-reaching range of projects that will help businesses and communities flourish, you'll fit right in. Here are some things you can expect from the team

• Making quality second nature. This means doing what's right even when no one's looking. The work that you will do has a major impact on our clients and our firm. We pride ourselves on the high-level standards we have for the work that we do.
• Own your own work. - Lead from the front in-regards to delivering client work.
• Be part of a team - Take responsibility for developing more junior team members, understanding their career aspiration and support in this delivery.
• Build your brand - Good communication capability to the internal population and the external stake holders to ensure we are always promoting our core values.

We work with large as well as SME insurers and reinsurers and this will allow you to apply your technical accounting and financial knowledge and experience in the insurance advisory space. You should have knowledge of the hot topics and challenges currently facing Insurance CFOs.

You will provide technical accounting support as part of the Insurance Accounting Advisory team to

• Assist in the delivery of technical accounting advisory to our clients
• Research and development of technical accounting issues, respond to questions and develop/produce high quality technical accounting memos, papers or reports
• Understand and present complex financial information clearly either in written or verbal form to internal as well as external clients
• Develop and/or participate in and assist with any business development initiatives and collaborative working with Financial Services Group colleagues or others in the wider firm
• Assist in preparation of research materials/ white papers / articles / training material
• Support the development, launch and marketing of new initiatives and service lines to diversify the business
• Deliver high quality work that is subject to a suitable contract with the client
• Seek regular feedback and identifies and acts upon learning and development needs in order to develop technical and personal skills

The minimum criteria

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA etc) with good technical accounting experience in the insurance sector. Experience of IFRS 17 is advantageous.
• Experience in technical accounting under IFRS and/or UK GAAP for insurance companies.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate experience in working in multi-functional teams and delivering high quality deliverables within tight timeframes
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and a good working knowledge of PowerPoint and Word.

Do you care about the same things we do?

We have six values we work by. When we meet, we'll want you to show us how they're important to you, too.

Collaboration: We are aligned around a common purpose that unites us in providing the same quality experience for our clients and our people, seamlessly across borders.

Leadership: We are committed to the success of our clients, our people, our profession, and our stakeholders at large, demonstrating leadership at all levels.

Excellence: We are passionate about exceeding expectation and delivering high quality work. We love what we do, and it shows. We sweat the details. We see things through, no matter how tricky.

Agility: The world moves quickly. To keep up, we stay flexible - changing approaches, changing projects, working offline, online, together and alone to get things done.

Respect: A given, of course: we value each other and our clients. We listen, we understand, we care.

Responsibility: The decisions we make and advice we give affects people's lives and livelihoods. We take that seriously and always do well by doing what's right.

Bring your whole self

Now you've seen our values, it shouldn't be a surprise that we're creating a respectful, open, diverse place to work. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues, is not just the right thing to do, it helps our people to perform at their best. We provide opportunities for all our people to fulfil their potential by embracing and respecting difference whether that is age, disability, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socioeconomic background, working style, education and family or care responsibilities.

"We are committed to making sure that the opportunities within our firm are equally accessible for everyone - regardless of background or gender." Dave Dunckley, CEO

There's more to life than work

Families, children, sports, night classes...the things you do and the people you're with outside work matter. They can inspire, motivate and energise you. Inside the office and out. So if you'd like to work flexibly, let us know. We're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we'll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

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