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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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£0 to £0 per month

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Birmingham Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

Who we are looking for We are looking for an experienced qualified actuary to join the expanding PwC Pensions practice as a Senior Manager. The Pensions practice sits within the Human Resource Services (HRS) group. You will be working in partnership with employee covenant advisers, corporate finance specialists, transactions specialists, tax experts, accountants, insolvency specialists, lawyers and HR consultants in other parts of PwC. The exposure everyone gains from this pooling of talent allows us to provide complete solutions to our clients, as well as developing our peoples' abilities in fields outside their usual remits. The pensions team provides specialist advice to trustees and sponsoring employers of occupational pension schemes. The team sits within a multi-disciplinary PwC team covering all aspects of advice relating to occupational pensions, including scheme funding, scheme financing, investment, risk control, liability management and benefit design. The team also gives advice on transactions, international pensions, share schemes and financial reporting. Corporate advice: you will be expected to both support senior members of the team and lead client engagements overseeing the work of more junior colleagues. The corporate work is varied and will range from standard regular advice such as assistance with accounting disclosures to helping corporates set their long term pensions strategy. This could include projects such as liability management exercises and scheme redesign. Transactions: you will play a part in analysing the pensions aspects of corporate transactions, either from the vendor's or the buyer's point of view. Your work will typically be incorporated within a larger due diligence report prepared by our transactions specialists. About the role Our pensions team will provide you with an opportunity to broaden your experience in all the areas of work mentioned and others which are yet to be developed. Your responsibilities will include the following: * Use your pensions knowledge within a wide commercial context. * Use the technical skills you have and build on them with commercial knowledge and project experience within a challenging environment. * Take on a wide-ranging portfolio of work while developing client exposure and business skills * Take formal responsibility for managing people within the pensions team and for overseeing the work of more junior staff. * Maintain regular contact with internal colleagues and external clients, including active account management. * Assist clients with accounting for pensions and stock compensation under UK, US and International GAAP. * Assist the management team in developing new business. * Work closely with the Assurance practice on corporate audits. * Advise businesses as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including other professionals such as Tax, Accounting, HR, wider employee reward and Corporate Finance. Additional information * Opportunity for working from home? (Yes) * Amount of time client based (0%) * Opportunity for job sharing? (No) * Need to travel/overnight stays away from home (No) * Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? (Yes) * Amount of time PwC office based (100%) Requirements Experience required * Actuarial qualification Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries or equivalent * Strong technical skills * Understanding of the pension framework in the UK * Commercial and outgoing approach * Motivation and commitment * The ability to pick up new skills quickly * Ability or the potential to win new assignments and to develop business Candidates would also ideally have some of the following: * A working understanding of UK, International and US accounting standards for pensions * Experience in explaining complex pensions ideas to trustees or corporate clients * Knowledge of the pensions issues facing UK employers * Appreciation of employee benefit/HR issues wider than pensions 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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GAAPweb Don't show me jobs from GAAPweb

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From £50,000 to £60,000 per year

Location

Lancashire Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

My client is one of the UKs leading service providers with an enviable reputation as a leading employer in the Northwest. Due to a restructure they are now looking to recruit a talented Tax Accountant during a period of exciting financial and organisational growth. As Financial Accountant, you will have a specific focus on accounting for taxation purposes (eg corporate tax, VAT, IPT and PAYE) you will be tasked with driving best practice and designing innovative recommendations on tax issues, as well as advising of the impact on the business. Key responsibilities include: managing tax reporting, compliance planning and advice driving the use of best practice and knowledge of rules and legislation is into all aspects; supervising communication with HMRC; preparation and acting as key liaison for annual statutory audit on tax issues; initiating forecasting & planning frameworks and implementation of essential financial projects including the introduction of new products, implementation of new systems. The ideal candidate will be a qualified CTA or Chartered Accountant, with prior experience in accounting for taxation within a corporate environment. Experience working with partially exempt companies and a strong background in financial accounting will strengthen your application. If you would like to apply for the role of Tax Accountant or find out more, please apply online or contact Marcus Blackburn at Robert Walters by email or call quoting the reference 1643890-2-BB.

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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 To provide an effective Financial Accounting service to a range of internal and external customers and to ensure that all statutory and tax reporting requirements are delivered. The role will act as an interface between the Financial Accounting team and its internal and external customers (individual Business Areas including the Commercial Finance and Accounting teams, Reporting, Group Finance, Group Tax , internal & external audit and statutory authorities), promoting collaborative team-working, improve co-ordination of activities and promote improved ways of working. We need to strengthen knowledge, control and working processes around our Tax and Vat reporting - this role is fundamental to this. What You'll Be Doing Tax accounting & reporting * Responsible for the completion and submission in a timely manner of TUI Travel PLC VAT return. * Responsible for the calculation of TAMS (Travel Agent Margin scheme), ensuring we are capturing information and recording it appropriately. * Responsible for the maintenance and reconciliation of provision balances - ensuring the integrity of all balances held. * Responsible for the VAT return and subsequent accounting for Sunshine Cruises. * Responsible for the TOMS (Tour Operator Margin Scheme) calculation for Sunshine Cruises. * Responsible for the review and on-going maintenance of ONBOS, in relation to our Tax accounting needs. * Responsibility for Irish VAT returns - ensuring accuracy and timely filing. * Responsibility for the PSA (PAYE Settlement agreement) and TSA (Tax award scheme) calculations. * Responsible for all payments required as a result of the above tax liabilities - ensuring timely payment. * Responsible for the Tax packs in relation to TUI UK and TUI Retail. * Work, where required, with Group Tax to ensure TUI UK compliance with Group tax accounting & reporting requirements. Financial accounting and control * Reconcile financial accounting balance sheet and other relevant accounts and prepare correcting journals as required. * Support in ensuring accurate calculation and reporting of provisions and other complex areas of accounting. * Support with Ad hoc accounting projects - primarily developing accounting solutions for changes to the business and driving improvements to existing processes and procedures. Statutory accounting & reporting * Assistance in preparation of statutory accounts for TUI UK legal entities in accordance with IFRS/IAS. Audit management * Support in the delivery of all VAT and Tax related audit requirements to the required timeframes. * Work with Internal Audit to identify and correct sub-optimal internal controls and operating procedures. Risk management & profit protection * Support SSC to ensure the capture of data for Tax requirements is optimised and delivery of HMRC requirements is achieved. Organisational effectiveness & cost management * Challenge processes in all areas of responsibility - to maximise effectiveness and efficiency. Key Relationships (Internal & External contacts) * Reporting team - Partner/consult/inform * Commercial finance & business teams - Partner/consult/inform * Group Finance & Group tax - Partner/consult/inform * Team members - Support/Development/Consult/Inform * Statutory & tax authorities - Partner/inform What We're Looking For * Part / Qualified accountant with experience in a large company environment * Strong technical accounting & analytical skills * Good systems & process skills * Good knowledge of IFRS/IAS * Existing knowledge/experience of tax would be beneficial. 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 tax accountant luton toms analytical good systems process skills ifrs ias adapts communication

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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 To provide an effective Financial Accounting service to a range of internal and external customers and to ensure that all statutory and tax reporting requirements are delivered. The role will act as an interface between the Financial Accounting team and its internal and external customers (individual Business Areas including the Commercial Finance and Accounting teams, Reporting, Group Finance, Group Tax , internal & external audit and statutory authorities), promoting collaborative team-working, improve co-ordination of activities and promote improved ways of working. We need to strengthen knowledge, control and working processes around our Tax and Vat reporting - this role is fundamental to this. What You'll Be Doing Tax accounting & reporting * Responsible for the EC sales list and the timely filing. * Develop on-going improvements to the way in which we capture EC sales in order to improve reporting. * Responsible for reverse charges - ensuring we are capturing information and recording it appropriately. * Responsible for the review of HMPL (Horizon Midland Property Limited) - ensuring the integrity of balances held. * Responsible for the review of APD (Air Passenger Duty) returns. * Responsible for the review of Foreign Pax Tax returns - ensuring timely filing and accurate recording of data. * Responsible for the review of Foreign VAT returns - ensuring timely filing and accurate recording of data. * Responsible for all payments required as a result of the above tax liabilities - ensuring timely payment. * Responsible for the PE (Partial exemption) calculation - ensuring accuracy and transparency of the calculations. * Work, where required, with Group Tax to ensure TUI UK compliance with Group tax accounting & reporting requirements. Financial accounting and control * Reconcile financial accounting balance sheet and other relevant accounts and prepare correcting journals as required. * Support in ensuring accurate calculation and reporting of provisions and other complex areas of accounting. * Support with Ad hoc accounting projects - primarily developing accounting solutions for changes to the business and driving improvements to existing processes and procedures. Statutory accounting & reporting * Assistance in preparation of statutory accounts for TUI UK legal entities in accordance with IFRS/IAS. Audit management * Support in the delivery of all VAT and Tax related audit requirements to the required timeframes. * Work with Internal Audit to identify and correct sub-optimal internal controls and operating procedures. Risk management & profit protection * Support SSC to ensure the capture of data for Tax requirements is optimised and delivery of HMRC requirements is achieved. Organisational effectiveness & cost management * Challenge processes in all areas of responsibility - to maximise effectiveness and efficiency. Key Relationships (Internal & External contacts) * Reporting team - Partner/consult/inform * Commercial finance & business teams - Partner/consult/informGroup Finance & Group tax - Partner/consult/inform * Team members - Support/Development/Consult/Inform * Statutory & tax authorities - Partner/inform What We're Looking For * Part / Qualified accountant with experience in a large company environment * Strong technical accounting & analytical skills * Good systems & process skills * Good knowledge of IFRS/IAS * Existing knowledge/experience of tax would be beneficial. 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 wide 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 tax accountant luton hmpl vat returns analytical good systems process skills knowledge of ifrs ias

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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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£0 to £0 per month

Location

Bristol 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 Bristol office was opened in September 2010 to reflect the increasing amount of client work undertaken in that region. Headed up by Paul Dobson, our team is looking to expand further to help our clients in the South West and has rapidly grown to a team of 8 within a very short period of time. This is an opportunity for Principal Consultants to join our team in an exciting stage, and to help in further growing our presence in this area. Whilst the role is based in Bristol, 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. 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 a 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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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

Salary

£0 to £0 per month

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Who we are looking for To support ongoing growth in the non-traditional areas of its actuarial consultancy, PwC is seeking Senior and Principal Consultant level individuals with specific technical skills and experience. The roles will be based in our new office at More London Riverside, sitting within the Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice within Assurance. The roles will cover a range of areas including credit risk modelling (both corporate and retail), capital modelling under Basel, and impairment provisioning. It may also include projects focused on asset valuation, financial instruments and derivatives, risk management, market risk and liquidity. They will suit individuals who are looking for new challenges and believe that they can leverage their existing skills in a new environment, who are able to work well as part of a team, and who are responsible, decisive, clear-thinking and motivated. About the role The AIMS practice comprises over 240 partners and staff and works in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage. Ongoing growth in non-traditional areas of actuarial consultancy has led the AIMS practice to seek additional team members with appropriate skills and experience to support development of the business. PwC seeks to develop accomplished consultants. 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), clients and industries, as well as opportunities for secondments in the UK and overseas. The AIMS practice has an unrivalled client base and breadth of projects. Within the insurance sector, we have advised 18 out of the Top 20 UK insurers, a wide cross-section of the London Market, major global reinsurers and bancassurers. Our non-insurance clients include investment banks, retail banks, private equity houses, hedge funds, HM Treasury, primary care trusts, local authorities, multinational oil and gas companies, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers in light and heavy industries, telecoms companies, retailers and mining conglomerates. Client assignments across the practice cover areas such as credit risk modelling, capital modelling, model validation, enterprise risk management, financial modelling and data mining, financial and commercial due, reporting accountant roles, corporate restructuring, pricing and transfer pricing, financial reporting, specialist support to internal audits of functional areas, performance improvement/business process re-engineering, reinsurance strategy and modelling, and support to statutory audits (focussing on the adequacy of technical provisions and governance and controls around the reserving process). Principal accountabilities include: * To provide pragmatic and commercial modelling and related solutions, and the highest quality of service, to our clients at all times in order to maintain and enhance the firm's standing and market reputation. * To apply modelling skills and experience to a wide variety assignments in both the banking industry and outside financial services. * The role requires excellent academic ability and commercial awareness, and an ability to quickly assimilate leading edge modelling solutions and advise our clients appropriately. * To be proactive in contributing to and initiate research and development projects. * To develop new and existing client relationships, including through client handling as the main point of day-to-day contact on assignments. * To be actively involved in the development of new work opportunities from both existing and new clients, including playing a pivotal role in client pitches and proposals. * To manage and coach other team members and ensure the timely delivery of assignments. * To lead or contribute to the development of new consulting product/offering opportunities. * To lead or contribute to the development and distribution of information or training programmes that enhance the department's and clients' understanding of key issues. * To actively raise personal profile internally and externally and enhance the firm's reputation. There are a variety of different day-to-day management and development opportunities, including providing counselling and development support to a team of qualified actuaries and actuarial students. There are also opportunities to work with our teams in other areas of the UK and the US, Australia and Europe. Requirements This role would suit a candidate who has excelled in their current role but is looking to develop into a senior management role within industry or a consultancy environment. Essential skills * Credit risk modelling. * Strong problem solving and logical reasoning skills. * Excellent interpersonal skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. * Strong oral, listening and written communication skills, especially communication of technical concepts to a non-technical audience. * Strong people management, handling and developments skills. * Strong quantitative, technical, problem identification and analytical skills. * Commercial awareness with the ability and experience of working within a broader business environment. * Strong project and financial management skills, particularly in prioritising effectively. * Ability to deliver to budget and within timescales, flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. * Good internal/external client handling skills, including relationship-building skills, and the ability to manage staff relationships with clients. * Strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. Desirable skills * Experience of statistical packages (e.g. SAS). * Programming experience (e.g.VBA, C++, Matlab or Visual Basic). * Practical knowledge of VaR and related methodologies. 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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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

Salary

£0 to £0 per month

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Who we are looking for To support ongoing growth in the non-traditional areas of its actuarial consultancy, PwC is seeking Senior and Principal Consultant level individuals with specific technical skills and experience. The roles will be based in our new office at More London Riverside, sitting within the Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice within Assurance. The roles will mainly focus on our investment banking clients but may cover a wide range of areas including financial/stochastic modelling, asset valuation, capital modelling under Basel, credit risk, impairment provisioning, financial instruments and derivatives, risk management, model risk, market risk and liquidity. They will suit individuals with relevant experience who want a new challenge and a varied application of their existing skills, who are able to work well both independently and as part of a team and are comfortable with responsibility. About the role The AIMS practice comprises over 240 partners and staff and works in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage. Ongoing growth in non-traditional areas of actuarial consultancy has led the AIMS practice to seek additional team members with appropriate skills and experience to support development of the business. PwC seeks to develop accomplished consultants. 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), clients and industries, as well as opportunities for secondments in the UK and overseas. The AIMS practice has an unrivalled client base and breadth of projects. Within the insurance sector, we have advised 18 out of the Top 20 UK insurers, a wide cross-section of the London Market, major global reinsurers and bancassurers. Our non-insurance clients include investment banks, retail banks, private equity houses, hedge funds, HM Treasury, primary care trusts, local authorities, multinational oil and gas companies, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers in light and heavy industries, telecoms companies, retailers and mining conglomerates. Client assignments across the practice cover areas such as financing modelling, valuation of complex assets and derivatives, capital modelling, credit and market risk modelling, model validation, operational risk, enterprise risk management (across all industry sectors), data mining, financial and commercial due diligence (sell side and buy side), predictive analytics, specialist support to internal audit functions and statutory audits. Principal accountabilities include: * Providing the highest quality of service to our clients at all times in order to maintain and enhance the firm's standing and market reputation. * Developing and delivering pragmatic and commercial modelling solutions and other related products. * Applying modelling skills and experience to a wide variety of assignments, primarily focussed on investment banking but potentially including clients in a range of industries. * Developing new and existing client relationships, acting as the main point of day-to-day contact on assignments and developing broader networks. * Active involvement in developing new opportunities with both existing and new clients, including playing a pivotal role in client pitches and proposals and proactive contribution to research and development projects. * Managing and coaching other team members and ensuring the timely delivery of assignments, consistently maintaining our risk and quality standards. * Leading or contributing to the development and distribution of information or training programmes that enhance the department's and clients' understanding of key issues. * Raising personal profile internally and externally and enhancing the firm's reputation. There are a variety of different day-to-day management and development opportunities, including providing counselling and development support to a team of qualified actuaries, actuarial students and other professionals. There are also opportunities to work with our teams in other areas of the UK and the US, Australia and Europe. Requirements This role would suit a candidate who has excelled in their current role but is looking to develop into a more varied and client-focused management position within a consultancy environment. Essential skills * Strong problem solving and logical reasoning skills, particularly quantitative analytical skills. * Strong oral, listening and written communication skills, especially communication of technical concepts to a non-technical audience. * Strong people management, handling and developments skills. * Commercial awareness with the ability and experience of working within a broader business environment. * Banking industry knowledge and experience including familiarity with the main asset classes including derivatives. * Strong and flexible project and financial management skills, effective prioritisation, ability multi-task and to deliver projects within budget and deadlines. * Excellent interpersonal skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. * Good internal/external client handling and relationship-building skills. * Strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. Desirable skills * Coding experience (e.g.VBA/Visual Basic, C/C++/C#, Matlab). * Experience of statistical packages (S-Plus, R, SAS, EViews). * Experience of stochastic simulation. * Practical knowledge of VaR and related methodologies. 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

Recruiter

PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

Salary

£0 to £0 per month

Location

London 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 roles in London are based in our flagship More London Riverside office where we moved to in early 2011. The London team is the largest of the AIMS offices, with opportunities to work both 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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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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£0 to £0 per month

Location

London 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 roles in London are based in our flagship More London Riverside office where we moved to in early 2011. The London team is the largest of the AIMS offices, with opportunities to work both 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.

Recruiter

PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

Salary

£0 to £0 per month

Location

Bristol 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 Bristol office was opened in September 2010 to reflect the increasing amount of client work undertaken in that region. Headed up by Paul Dobson, our team is looking to expand further to help our clients in the South West and has rapidly grown to a team of 8 within a very short period of time. Our clients in the region include AXA, Lloyds Banking Group, Friends Life, Ecclesiastical and BUPA. This is an opportunity for Principal Consultants to join our team in an exciting stage, and to help in further growing our presence in this area. Whilst the role is based in Bristol, 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.