Sr Manager/AVP - Regulatory Reporting - Insurance

Insurance Regulatory State Level Reporting

- This team will also support Insurance companies in the US for regulatory state level and SEC reporting.

- The role of the Head of Reporting Production (off-shore) will be to manage the off-shore team and their delivery and to work closely with the Head of Reporting Production (on-shore) to ensure delivery in line with stakeholder expectations.

- The role will also work directly with stakeholders and customers where agreed to determine report specifications and to deliver in line with these specifications in a robust and timely manner.

Role Dimension:

- Prime responsibility for areas under direct control, subject to agreement with Group Production & Reporting Director and Head of Reporting Production (on-shore).

- Operational management responsibility for the Off-shore Reporting Production Team.

- Priorities and scope of individual outputs / deliverable within responsibilities.

- Flexibility to address changing business requirements.

- Ensure all outputs / deliverable meet the quality and timeliness expectations of stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Qualified accountant - Qualified Chartered Accountant / ICWAI / CFA / CPA / MBA (MBA Finance only applicable if candidates has all the relevant experience & exposure and from premier institutes)

Job Location: Chennai

Experience:

- Minimum 8 + years post qualification.

- Financial Reporting experience

- Preferred, Hyperion working knowledge

- Team Management - Minimum team size of 15+

- Open to work in US Shifts. Will involve flexible shift for 15 - 20 days and during month ends and as client demands will involve

- Willing to Travel to the US for 2 - 3 times in the initial 6 - 8 months for knowledge / process transfer.

Skills/knowledge:

- Strong understanding of all areas under direct control

- Ability to work through other colleagues within and outside the group finance team, including those from difference disciplines

- Ability to distil & communicate large amounts of complex information, both financial and non-financial, and express it in terms that give understanding and a sense of ownership to stakeholders as well as focusing the audience on the key element and assumptions in the data that really matter

- Commercially astute, and able to translate between business actions and financial implications

- Highly developed interpersonal skills, in particular ability to deal and be credible with senior management

- Good written skills and ability to communicate complex issues simply to a wider (non-financial) business audience

- Sound judgement and ability to identify and articulate risks and opportunities in a balanced manner

- Strong prioritization skills and ability to work with appropriate flexibility on multiple deliverable

- Highly proactive

- Cultural and political awareness & ability to deal with people from different backgrounds

- Influencing across organisational and geographic boundaries

- Working knowledge in US GAAP and Knowledge of IFRS (Preferred), but also MCEV and related capital / regulatory / solvency requirements desirable.

- Strong controls focus to avoid financial misstatement and messaging errors.

Experience:

- Insurance or financial services experience desirable

- Prior experience of Financial Reporting in a complex FTSE 100 (or similar) environment, knowledge of best practice and emerging developments in similar multinational organisations

- Proven track record of process delivery to a very high standard

- Proven people management, including delegation and influencing

- Experience of operating at senior / executive management level and of influencing senior management and other stakeholders

Email profile with current CTC details/ 09884491153

Jacob Mathew