Director, Bureau of Management in London

Ideal opportunity to amplify your major loss business interruption expertise.

Your new company is a global claims management firm and sits on the panels of most major insurers. Their forensic team works with external insurers as well as their own major & complex loss, engineering and cyber teams. The UK-wide Forensic team is drawn from a variety of backgrounds which enables them to approach cases from a broad range of angles. Backgrounds include commerce/industry, ex-forces and of course practice/consulting. The team has its own graduate program, studying ACA.

Being a UK-wide team means they can respond to major loss on a localised level and there are now accountants in each location. Uniquely, the team has a dedicated people director, who runs the function operationally. Therefore, as a Senior Manager in this team, your management is more focused around peer review, case strategy and tech review.

Your new role involves:

• Assessing business interruption and financial claims both on site and from office.
• Report preparation including commentary on the review and conclusion of analytical work.
• Meeting clients including insurers, reinsurers, claimants and the insured.
• Calculating and agreeing settlement of claims, and preparing final reports.
• Staff development (though operations and pastoral care are taken care of for you).
• Developing working relationships with existing clients; helping to identify and plan approaches to new clients.
• Keeping abreast of any technical or legal changes which may impact a case.
• Business development - much of this is done via repeat business through high calibre output.

What you'll need to succeed:

• ACA/ACCA qualified.
• Forensic accounting experience to at least Senior Manager level.
• Experience to have included major loss/insurer-led work, coupled with a desire to grow this side of your experience.
• A desire to develop business and be rewarded for success.
• While a hybrid working pattern is in place, an ability and willingness to go out to a business site (likely to be in the South East but potentially elsewhere in the UK) at short notice is desirable.

What you'll get in return:

• A culture where business development is as much about generating repeat business through excellent project management and client relationships, as it is generating new clients.
• First promotion to Director can be considered on merit for experienced Senior Managers/ADs.
• The chance to take a further qualification and be rewarded with a salary raise for every level you pass.
• A bonus system which has a leveraged element linked to productivity - you have a real chance to influence it.
• A firm where values are not just 'a poster on a wall' but part of the cultural ecosystem.
• Tangible metrics for further advancement.
• Working with a broad range of backgrounds and specialities in the team - lots of different minds to bounce ideas and approaches around with.

If you're in a PE-backed business and the only thing holding you back is a retention bonus yet to pay out, please talk to me anyway. There may well be a workaround with the client.

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