Senior Business and Accounting Consultant

Senior Business and Accounting Consultant Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Senior Business and Accounting Consultant to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide decision support to the business, offering insights to assist in sound decision making;
  • Proven ability to initiate and manage change;
  • Ability to analyse and communicate financial information, life insurance experience preferred;
  • Facilitate delivery of outcomes through own and other teams, as required;
  • Demonstrable understanding of financial accounting, how General Ledgers operate, and processes involved in accounting operations;
  • Degree qualification in accounting / commerce (Essential);
  • Relevant experience in a range of Financial Reporting and project related roles, preferably within a financial services environment;
  • Experience in project management including end user testing for new applications (desirable);
  • Collaborate with other business teams, primarily the Actuarial & Financial Management teams, to manage the group’s financial risks;
  • Continuously re-assess identified risks and the emergence of new risks, and provide advice to Senior Finance Manager on how to mitigate these risks;
  • Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and work autonomously;
  • Excellent excel skills, experience with macros highly desirable;
  • Excellent problem-solving ability, analytical skills and ability to deliver to tight timeframes;
  • Undertake General Ledger control activities to ensure ledger integrity (such as review and approval of monthly journals);
  • Experience with re-designing processes and controls, process simplification and automation (Essential).

Requirements:

  • Provision of financial insights and advice to business teams, reinsurance, actuarial and tax,
  • Re-design of processes and controls to ensure best practice and adherence to required statutory requirements and business goals,
  • Assurance of the completeness and accuracy of the General Ledger, delivering through others in the team, ensuring all deadlines are met.

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