Senior Consultant / Manager Insurance CFO Consulting - Financial Services

at  EY

SENIOR CONSULTANT / MANAGER INSURANCE CFO CONSULTING – FINANCIAL SERVICES

EY is the only major professional services firm with a dedicated financial services practice (EY FSO) integrated in the EMEIA region. An international team of over 16.000 professionals is working across borders for our clients in the financial sector: Banking, Insurance, Payment Institutions and Wealth & Asset Management, in all service lines: Consulting, Tax, Transactions and Assurance. As we consider our people as the heart of EY, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that, whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

THE OPPORTUNITY

For our CFO Consulting team, we are looking for experienced professionals, excited about growing their careers through assisting clients in accounting and regulatory reporting, finance transformation (process optimization, target operating model and system implementation) and more innovative topics such as the use of predictive analytics in support of business planning and the use of interactive dashboarding to enhance management reporting. By performing end-to-end support and transformations and cultivating EY talent, we play a key role in building the future of finance in insurance. In this job, you will thus be in the front row to delivering projects that address the CFO’s most significant challenges.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. applied economics, commercial engineer) or equivalent through experience.
• Between 3 and 10 years of relevant experience, in financial (Belgian Gaap / IFRS), regulatory (Solvency II) or management reporting in Insurance
• Knowledge of USGAAP, Solvency II and/or IFRS 17 is a plus
• Strong analytical skills with an eye for detail
• Solid communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
• Ability to translate complex topics into clear, comprehensible communication to a broad audience
• Proficient level of business English and fluent in Dutch/French
• Adventurous and entrepreneurial spirit
• A can-do mentality
• Loving the challenge to connect with different people in an organization (from expert to CFO)
• Combining a passion for figures with recognizing the importance of a good team spirit

As a Senior Consultant / Manager, you will collaborate with our clients to understand the challenges that face their business and help implement a tailored solution. You will also contribute to the development of the competence team and EY as a whole.
You will serve key insurance clients, supporting them to respond to stakeholders’ expectations with respect to financial, regulatory and management reporting (content, compliance, efficiency, quality and controls). You will have the opportunity to make a real difference within EY CFO Consulting during a time of exciting growth and help build trust in a changing economic and regulatory environment.

Some examples of how you will drive our client’s finance department to the next level:

• Improving the closing, consolidation and reporting cycle
• Executing the reporting and consolidation processes via temporary support
• Enhancing the decisionmaking process by optimizing the budgeting and forecasting processes
• Supporting in the implementation of finance tools (accounting, controlling, reporting and visualization tools)
• Conducting analyses on accounting figures, management and regulatory reporting
• Providing technical advice to ad-hoc queries from clients and internal staff as needed