Senior Manager – Insurance - Finance Transformation

About the role

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.

What your days will look like

In this role, you will provide leadership across finance transformation and accounting advisory work, including:

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

This role is for you if

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

What you’ll receive from us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. ​

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We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.