Manager - Insurance - Finance Transformation

Overview

Our Insurance and Asset & Wealth Management (I&AWM) practice partners with leading financial services firms to help them manage complexity, modernise finance functions and strengthen financial reporting. Within this, our Life & Retirement Finance Transformation team works with insurers and retirement providers to navigate significant accounting and reporting change, including IFRS 17 implementation, finance transformation and regulatory reporting modernisation. As a Senior Manager, you will lead large‑scale finance transformation programmes while providing expert technical accounting advice to clients across the UK life insurance market.

• Lead finance transformation and accounting advisory engagements for insurance clients specifically in the life and retirement space.
• Oversee end‑to‑end project delivery, ensuring high‑quality, timely and commercially focused outputs.
• Provide technical accounting and financial reporting advice on complex insurance topics, including post‑implementation change.
• Collaborate with finance, actuarial, data and technology specialists to deliver integrated client solutions.

• Possess accounting certifications or have equivalent work experience (international candidates qualify through experience in their home country).
• Have delivered finance transformation or accounting advisory projects within insurance life or retirement markets, including financial reporting and technical accounting.
• Have a strong understanding of insurance accounting frameworks, including IFRS 17.
• Have prepared or reviewed technical accounting papers and accounting policy documentation.
• Have managed complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and work streams.
• Are comfortable engaging with senior finance leaders and explaining complex issues clearly.