Director, Insurance, External Audit, Large & Complex Audit & Assurance

Deloitte LLP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Director for their Insurance Audit Group in London. This role demands an experienced auditor with expertise in leading complex engagements and cross-border audit teams. Responsibilities include supervising teams, engaging in business development, and ensuring high-quality audit standards. The ideal candidate will possess relevant accounting qualifications and extensive sector experience, driving innovation and audit quality in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Opportunities for continuous professional development

Support for career returners

Qualifications

• Must have experience in leading complex external audits.
• Proficiency in auditing methodology including risk assessment.
• Strong communication skills for report writing and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex audit engagements.
• Supervise multi-location teams to execute audits.
• Engage in business development and lead audit tenders.

Skills

Experienced Auditor with relevant accounting qualification

Life Insurance or Bulk Purchase Annuity sector experience

Leading diverse engagements and cross border audit teams

Knowledge of auditing methodology

Communication skills

Proven problem-solving ability

Education

Relevant accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CA, ICAS or equivalent)

Job description

Director, Insurance, External Audit, Large & Complex Audit & Assurance

Basic information

Location

London

Business Line

Audit & Assurance

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

09-Jan-2026

Connect to your Industry

Our team combine the latest audit tools, technological innovations and agile processes and procedures to deliver high quality audits. We are proud of our role performing work in the public interest and our audit team are dedicated to the highest standards of independence, professional objectivity, and technical excellence.

We audit a broad range of listed organisations and their subsidiaries in the UK and internationally, as well as other public interest entities such as banks and insurers. We also have vast audit experience in the private sector, including entrepreneurial and high growth businesses. We have strong industry credentials across the financial services and corporate landscape and can draw on a wide range of specialists and experts across our extensive global network.

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’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decisionwemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

In the insurance audit team, we work with a wide range of businesses, from listed insurers (life and non-life) to the top international insurance brokers, Lloyd’s syndicates and many more across the UK. The team has seen consistent growth in recent years, and this is due to continue making it a very exciting time to be joining the team.

We are looking to expand our team of focused, aspirational, and collaborative insurance practitioners, and as such we are offering the opportunity to join as a Director in our Insurance Audit Group to support this challenging and rapidly expanding business.

You can expect senior level exposure and variety. You will work with some of the most influential companies in the UK and internationally, offering expert insights across the whole business. Innovation is key for us, underpinned by audit quality. You will be joining a diverse team of experts capable of delivering meaningful and durable change for both our clients and our profession.

As a Director in Insurance you’ll:

• Lead our most complex engagements reporting into your Partner.
• Assume signing responsibilities (subject to regulatory approval) on certain audit engagements.
• Supervise multi location teams (including specialists) to successfully execute engagements in accordance with Deloitte methodology and quality standards, and work to deadlines.
• Lead the change in driving our technological adoption and making continuous improvement in audit methodology.
• Actively engage with business development, including leading audit tenders, helping to develop Deloitte's insurance thought leadership to deliver insight to clients.
• Lead on other assurance projects drawing on your skills around accounting, controls and regulation.
• Assume people leadership responsibility including coaching, staff appraisals and overseeing practice management activities, including facilitation ofinternal training courses and leading community initiatives.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You must have the following in order to qualify for this role:

• Experienced Auditor with a relevant accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CA, ICAS or equivalent.
• Life Insurance or Bulk Purchase Annuity sector experience gained through leading complex external audits and assurance engagements.
• Experience of leading diverse engagements and cross border audit teams, including specialists.
• Knowledge of auditing methodology including risk assessment, scoping, devising and audit approach, controls testing and substantive testing.
• Engagement and people leadership gained through overseeing large complex audits.
• Communication skills developed through report writing, presentation and interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven ability to use initiative to investigate and resolve problems.

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.

Audit

Our independent audits help to build trust and confidence, equipping the companies we audit and their stakeholders to make better informed decisions based on meaningful information. By combining the latest audit tools, technologies and procedures to deliver high quality audits, we’re able to deliver work we are truly proud of.

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.

Connect with your colleagues

“Throughout my time at Deloitte, the focus on people, quality and innovation has been constant. I’ve been able to work on challenging audits in a technology-enabled environment, while continuing to learn, grow and develop at every stage of my career.”- Nooreen, Audit & Assurance

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return-to-work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers