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 focussing 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