Assistant Manager, Accounting and Controls Advisory

ACCA Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte seeks an ambitious Assistant Manager to join our Insurance Practice, focusing on assurance over IFRS, UK GAAP, Solvency II and risk controls for financial services clients.

You will lead delivery of client projects, build strong relationships, and help shape finance transformation initiatives through technology-enabled solutions.

Join a global network of specialists committed to quality, integrity and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in Insurance Audit of a large Financial Services organisation or in a finance function within the Insurance industry.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP, and/or Solvency UK.
• Understanding of end-to-end insurance processes and associated risks.
• Understanding of internal control frameworks, including control design and testing.
• Awareness of technology, AI, and automation in finance transformation, including ERP and insurance-specific finance tools.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Commercial awareness of current economic and market trends impacting the insurance sector.
• Knowledge of key developments in Insurance regulation.
• Proven adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, transformational environment.
• A collaborative approach and strong team player mentality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing, presentations, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Advising clients on IFRS and UKGAAP accounting matters, including complex accounting queries, accounting policy assessments, financial statement reviews and technical accounting papers.
• Supporting clients with IFRS 9 and IFRS 17 matters, including interpretation, implementation and ongoing application of standards.
• Supporting clients with financial reporting processes
• Advising clients on Solvency II methodology
• Supporting Insurance transformation projects for our clients, while providing technical accounting and financial reporting support
• Supporting clients in strengthening their internal control environments, including SOX controls.
• Designing and assessing controls (design and operating effectiveness) across insurance processes.
• Assisting clients undergoing finance transformation programmes to embed controls into new and/or evolving processes.
• Documenting end to end insurance processes, ensuring clear linkage between risks, controls and reporting outcomes.

Skills

Client relationship building

Strong communication

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Education

ACA/ACCA or international equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Data analysis tools

Job description

Connect to your Industry

For those charged with governance, the focus on setting clear, high-quality financial reporting, robust accounting judgements, effective finance processes, and reliable control environments has never been greater. Our Accounting & Controls Advisory team specialises in assurance over financial statements, transactions, accounting and internal controls skills, helping clients respond to complex accounting, regulatory, controls, and finance change requirements. By collaborating with other teams and our global network of specialists, we deliver assurance that protects the public interest and fosters even greater levels of trust, underpinned by our priority focus on quality.

Job Description

For those charged with governance, the focus on setting clear, high-quality financial reporting, robust accounting judgements, effective finance processes, and reliable control environments has never been greater. Our Accounting & Controls Advisory team specialises in assurance over financial statements, transactions, accounting and internal controls skills, helping clients respond to complex accounting, regulatory, controls, and finance change requirements. By collaborating with other teams and our global network of specialists, we deliver assurance that protects the public interest and fosters even greater levels of trust, underpinned by our priority focus on quality.

Our Audit & Assurance clients include some of the largest, most successful, and fast-growing companies across the globe. They are complex, influential, and exciting. You will be principally focused on improving the reliability and efficiency of finance processes and controls for external financial reporting with an impressive portfolio of clients. We advise clients on how to enhance their finance and reporting functions by combining deep technical accounting and controls expertise with technology-enabled solutions, helping them improve the quality, efficiency, and transparency of financial reporting.

We are seeking experienced and technically skilled professionals with a background in accounting and controls assurance, and/or industry background to join our fast-growing team, share in our vision, support our growth plans, and make an impact that matters on our clients, our people, our business, and society.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We Are Looking For An Ambitious Assistant Manager To Join Our Growing Insurance Practice. Reporting To a Manager, Senior Manager Or Director, You Will Assist In The Provision Of a Range Of Different Service Offerings Provided By The Accounting & Controls Advisory Team, Which May Include

• Advising clients on IFRS and UKGAAP accounting matters, including complex accounting queries, accounting policy assessments, financial statement reviews and technical accounting papers.
• Supporting clients with IFRS 9 and IFRS 17 matters, including interpretation, implementation and ongoing application of standards.
• Supporting clients with financial reporting processes
• Advising clients on Solvency II methodology
• Supporting Insurance transformation projects for our clients, while providing technical accounting and financial reporting support
• Supporting clients in strengthening their internal control environments, including SOX controls.
• Designing and assessing controls (design and operating effectiveness) across insurance processes.
• Assisting clients undergoing finance transformation programmes to embed controls into new and/or evolving processes.
• Documenting end to end insurance processes, ensuring clear linkage between risks, controls and reporting outcomes.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

• Experience of working in Insurance Audit of a large Financial Services organisation or in a finance function within the Insurance industry
• Experience in Insurance audit within a large Financial Services organisation or in a finance function within the Insurance industry.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP, and/or Solvency UK.
• Strong understanding of the insurance industry and its current landscape.
• Understanding of end-to-end insurance processes and associated risks.
• Understanding of internal control frameworks, including control design and testing.
• Awareness of technology, AI, and automation in finance transformation, including ERP and insurance-specific finance tools.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• A relevant professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, or international equivalent).
• Commercial awareness of current economic and market trends impacting the insurance sector.
• Knowledge of key developments in Insurance regulation.
• Proven adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, transformational environment.
• A collaborative approach and strong team player mentality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing, presentations, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and inquisitive mindset.
• Ability to manage and deliver workstreams or components of larger projects effectively.

Desirable

• Practical experience with IFRS 17 implementation or advisory.
• Experience with data analysis tools or techniques relevant to financial reporting

Connect to your business - Audit & Assurance

We know it's not just about the numbers. Often, we let the technology take care of those. It's about the creative and collective thinking or our people. That's where the true insight is found. We're redefining the future of audit. Come join us.

Assurance

Businesses need to be resilient and transparent in their reporting to build trust and confidence. Assurance practitioners play a key role in achieving this through independent review and challenge of management's views on a range of regulatory and reporting requirements, whether financial, operational or compliance in nature.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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