Financial Services Audit Manager - Insurance

BDO UK; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and advisory firm is looking for an ambitious Manager specializing in the insurance industry. You will act as a main point of contact for audited entities, build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and manage teams to ensure high-quality audit work. The ideal candidate should be ACCA/ACA/ICAS qualified, with experience in audit and project management. This role offers opportunities for career development in a supportive environment focused on agile working.

Benefits

Career development programmes

Agile working opportunities

Supportive company culture

Qualifications

• Strong commercial understanding of audited entities.
• Good working knowledge of UK and International GAAS, IFRS.
• Experience managing people.

Responsibilities

• Act as main contact for audited entity.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Complete assignments within budgets and timelines.

Skills

Relationship building

Project Management

Audit knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Compliance understanding

Education

ACCA/ACA/ICAS qualified or equivalent

Job description

Ideas People Trust

We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially‑spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

Our Insurance Industry team is recruiting for ambitious and inquisitive Managers with a specialism in the insurance industry or an interest in specialising in this sector.

We'll broaden your horizons

As a firm our focus on delivering quality audit work for the benefit of the public interest is our key priority. Our Audit teams are essential, not just to BDO, but to the whole economy. With specialist knowledge of sectors, markets and geographies; our auditors have the business understanding necessary to deliver the high quality and robust audits that companies and their stakeholders can trust.

Our Insurance team is made up of specialist with a passion for their sector. Working with many of the UK's leading insurance Groups we will expand your knowledge, building on your strong foundations in audit.

We'll help you succeed

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders. You'll be someone who is comfortable working pro‑actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO's Partners. You will help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value. You will;

• Act as a major point of contact within the firm for the audited entity, together with the Partner.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at senior levels, to develop a strong commercial understanding of the audited entity.
• Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities and inform the Partner as appropriate.
• Act as an ambassador of the firm, participates in office marketing events, keeps abreast of the wide range of service the firm offers.
• Recruit, retain, develop and motivate our employees, which includes participating in graduate recruitment, ensuring job appraisal documentation is completed within deadlines and ensuring appropriate objectives and development plans are in place for counselees.
• Complete assignments within agreed budgets and timescales and identify opportunities for additional billings.
• ACCA/ACA/ICAS qualified or overseas equivalent.
• Previous experience of managing people.
• Good working knowledge of UK and International GAAS, IFRS, UK GAAP and Financial Reporting requirements.
• Working knowledge of financial products, firm services, issues regarding advice and regulation and compliance, including anti‑money laundering.
• Experience of systems/controls testing as well as substantive auditing, including consolidations, group audits, statutory accounts and disclosures.
• Project Management experience.

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people‑centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions. We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.