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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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£0 to £0 per month

Location

Manchester Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Who we are looking for The PwC Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice comprises of over 200 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, our consultants focus on life, non life, banking and non insurance, led by a twelve strong partner team headed by Charles Garnsworthy. This makes us the largest insurance practice within the large accounting firms. Our Manchester office was opened in 2008 and has grown to a team of, currently, twelve . Headed up by Andrew James, the team works with our North West Financial Services practice looking after clients predominantly across the North of England and the Midlands. Our clients include CIS, Royal Liver, Royal London, Phoenix, NFU and Aviva. Whilst the role is based in Manchester, as part of the wider UK AIMS practice there are opportunities to work with other clients across the UK and abroad in Europe or globally AIMS is planning to expand significantly against a background of high client demand for actuarial services, driven in part by Solvency II where we are recognised as one of the leaders in the development of best practice in the UK. Our ambition is to grow to a sustainable 300 people by 2013/14. Our clients include a number of the leading UK insurers and European multinationals, such as Aegon, Axa, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Liberty Syndicates and LMIE, Old Mutual, Phoenix, Prudential, RBS and more. AIMS strategy firmly looks beyond Solvency II implementation to establish sustainable growth and reinforce our market-leading position. We continue to invest in core areas of our life insurance work including financial reporting, corporate restructuring and mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, enterprise risk management. A significant and increasing amount of our work is coming from Continental Europe. AIMS plays a leading role in the 800 strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide, We have a strong sense of culture developed over our 30 year history. We work in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage and proactively develop their career. We seek to develop accomplished consultants, not just technically strong actuaries. This means exposure to a wide range of project situations, often working with specialists from other disciplines within PwC such as Transaction Services, Regulatory, Risk Advisory, Corporate Finance, Business Recovery/Restructuring, Forensics, Tax, Accounting and Internal Audit. The individuals recruited would have a strong background either as a recognised strong life consultant or from successfully delivering significant actuarially related projects from within the life industry. In recognition of the need to invest in future growth of the practice, we are looking for individuals who not only have demonstrated relevant technical skills and experience, but who also have the potential with development support to lead on key client accounts and product areas, using strong relationship and people management skills. PwC offer an unparalleled development framework which not only ensures our consultants have strong technical experience, but also supports wider softer skills which are vital to success with our clients. We will ensure that the successful candidates will have a tailored development plan, which will enable progression to more senior levels within the practice in a relatively short timescale. About the role PwC is seeking Consultants from a life insurance background to join their UK Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice. On a day-to-day basis the candidate will lead, manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments, and act as the clients main point of day-today contact on assignments. The candidate will be actively involved in the development of new and existing client relationships and is expected to maintain a strong personal profile internally in PwC and externally in the market to seek out new business opportunities. We would expect the successful candidates to take an active role in the strategic management and running of the practice and lead on one our core product areas or be involved as lead actuarial account driver on one of our major UK life insurance clients. Requirements The successful candidate will: Have hold Degree Be a fully qualified Actuary Have spent most of their career to date in the life insurance market, either within a company or a consultancy Have a wider commercial awareness, including the understanding of wider business issues Have experience in financial reporting, corporate finance, market consistent techniques & financial modelling, ICAs, Solvency II or risk management are particularly relevant, reflecting the future growth of our practice. Personal Qualities: Have strong oral, listening and written communication skills. Have the potential to develop strong people management, client handling and development skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. Have demonstrated an aptitude to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities. Have strong project and financial management skills. The ability to deliver to budget and within timescales is an important skill. We are looking for people with a flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. Have strong technical, problem identification and analytical skills, most likely with at least one specialist area of experience. Be commercial, with the ability and experience of working within a broader insurance environment, and with vision as to developments at our clients and opportunities for consulting business. Be strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. Be self-motivated, in particular taking responsibility for personal development in technical and broader consulting skills. Our Competencies Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.

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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

Salary

£0 to £0 per month

Location

Manchester Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Who we are looking for The PwC Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice comprises of over 200 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, our consultants focus on life, non life, banking and non insurance, led by a twelve strong partner team headed by Charles Garnsworthy. This makes us the largest insurance practice within the large accounting firms. Our Manchester office was opened in 2008 and has grown to a team of, currently, twelve . Headed up by Andrew James, the team works with our North West Financial Services practice looking after clients predominantly across the North of England and the Midlands. Our clients include CIS, Royal Liver, Royal London, Phoenix, NFU and Aviva. Whilst the role is based in Manchester, as part of the wider UK AIMS practice there are opportunities to work with other clients across the UK and abroad in Europe or globally AIMS is planning to expand significantly against a background of high client demand for actuarial services, driven in part by Solvency II where we are recognised as one of the leaders in the development of best practice in the UK. Our ambition is to grow to a sustainable 300 people by 2013/14. Our clients include a number of the leading UK insurers and European multinationals, such as Aegon, Axa, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Liberty Syndicates and LMIE, Old Mutual, Phoenix, Prudential, RBS and more. AIMS strategy firmly looks beyond Solvency II implementation to establish sustainable growth and reinforce our market-leading position. We continue to invest in core areas of our life insurance work including financial reporting, corporate restructuring and mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, enterprise risk management. A significant and increasing amount of our work is coming from Continental Europe. AIMS plays a leading role in the 800 strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide, We have a strong sense of culture developed over our 30 year history. We work in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage and proactively develop their career. We seek to develop accomplished consultants, not just technically strong actuaries. This means exposure to a wide range of project situations, often working with specialists from other disciplines within PwC such as Transaction Services, Regulatory, Risk Advisory, Corporate Finance, Business Recovery/Restructuring, Forensics, Tax, Accounting and Internal Audit. The individuals recruited would have a strong background either as a recognised strong life consultant or from successfully delivering significant actuarially related projects from within the life industry. In recognition of the need to invest in future growth of the practice, we are looking for individuals who not only have demonstrated relevant technical skills and experience, but who also have the potential with development support to lead on key client accounts and product areas, using strong relationship and people management skills. PwC offer an unparalleled development framework which not only ensures our consultants have strong technical experience, but also supports wider softer skills which are vital to success with our clients. We will ensure that the successful candidates will have a tailored development plan, which will enable progression to more senior levels within the practice in a relatively short timescale. About the role PwC is seeking Consultants from a life insurance background to join their UK Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice. On a day-to-day basis the candidate will lead, manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments, and act as the clients main point of day-today contact on assignments. The candidate will be actively involved in the development of new and existing client relationships and is expected to maintain a strong personal profile internally in PwC and externally in the market to seek out new business opportunities. We would expect the successful candidates to take an active role in the strategic management and running of the practice and lead on one our core product areas or be involved as lead actuarial account driver on one of our major UK life insurance clients. Requirements The successful candidate will: * Have hold Degree * Be a fully qualified Actuary * Have spent most of their career to date in the life insurance market, either within a company or a consultancy * Have a wider commercial awareness, including the understanding of wider business issues * Have experience in financial reporting, corporate finance, market consistent techniques & financial modelling, ICAs, Solvency II or risk management are particularly relevant, reflecting the future growth of our practice. Personal Qualities: * Have strong oral, listening and written communication skills. * Have the potential to develop strong people management, client handling and development skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. * Have demonstrated an aptitude to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities. * Have strong project and financial management skills. The ability to deliver to budget and within timescales is an important skill. We are looking for people with a flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. Have strong technical, problem identification and analytical skills, most likely with at least one specialist area of experience. * Be commercial, with the ability and experience of working within a broader insurance environment, and with vision as to developments at our clients and opportunities for consulting business. * Be strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. * Be self-motivated, in particular taking responsibility for personal development in technical and broader consulting skills. Our Competencies Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us. http:// ... /uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.jhtml

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CRV Solutions Ltd Don't show me jobs from CRV Solutions Ltd

Salary

From £275 to £275 per day

Location

Glasgow Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

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TUI UK & Ireland : Head Office Don't show me jobs from TUI UK & Ireland : Head Office

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£0 to £0 per year

Location

Luton Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

At A Glance Support the Overhead Reporting Managers in the accounting, reporting & analysis of overhead expenditure for the UK&I mainstream division. Provide an effective suite of financial reports and KPIs in order that stakeholders within the UKI business have appropriate information to manage and control business performance and meet it's strategic objectives. What You'll Be Doing Month end close & reporting * Run extracts from Oracle and investigate variances to understand drivers of overhead costs at an account code/cost centre level * Prepare journals to recognise prepayments, accruals and or other cost reclassifications * Perform balance sheet account reconciliations Performance evaluation & reporting * Support the Overhead Reporting Managers in the analysis of month & YTD performance in order that key drivers of performance can be identified and variances to forecast, budget and prior year are explained * Ensure that performance information is consistent and aligned to ensure meaningful consolidation and comparability * Prepare monthly cost centre variance analysis * Business partner with cost centre managers to ensure cost centre analysis is understood and accurately presented * Prepare analysis on overheads for divisional board packs * Support the Overhead Reporting Managers & cost centre managers in identifying ways of reducing costs and challenging existing processes where appropriate Budgeting & Forecasting * Support the Overhead Reporting Managers in the development of the annual budget & 5YP for overheads * Support the Overhead Reporting Managers in the appraisal of the overall overheads forecast, taking into account current performance, changing market conditions and updated plans and initiatives. * Act as business partner to cost centre managers to develop budgets and make amendments to cost centre forecasts * Ensure the overheads risks and ops schedule is updated on a timely basis Audit * Support the Overhead Reporting Managers with responses to internal and external audit queries Key Relationships (Internal & External contacts) * Overhead Reporting Managers - Team Member/ Support * FP&A Manager - Team Member/ Support * Business stakeholders - Partner/consult/inform * Head of FP&A - Partner/consult/inform * Accounting team - Partner/consult/inform What We're Looking For * Qualified Accountant * Strong analytical and presentational skills * Strong excel & Powerpoint skills * HFM experience an advantage but not essential Key Behaviours required Customer Obsessed * Understands and anticipates customers' current and future needs * Continually works to build the customer relationship * Ensures customer perspective is included in business decisions * Recommends and implements changes to add value to the customer journey Value Driven * Proactively identifies commercial opportunities that make a good business case * Gains buy-in from stakeholders and drives forward to solution * Champions change and prepares others to respond positively * Is personally accountable * Is a major contributor of ideas for change to create exciting opportunities Playing to Win * Has high self belief * Able to deliver to tight deadlines * Manages own emotions and supports the emotions of others - self aware * Approaches all tasks with passion - hungry for success * Promotes understanding of the vision and values to the wider business area Responsible Leadership * Persuades and influences peers and senior managers in their thinking and actions * Adapts communication to match audience * Engages peers and others with objectives by setting high expectations, and encourages others to excel * Proactively seeks out feedback, receives it well and acts upon it Job Division: Mainstream Location: Wigmore House reporting analyst overheads luton budgeting forecasting audit qualified accountant strong analytical presentational skills excel powerpoint hfm