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.