Manager, Accounting Advisory

You will be part of a team providing high quality accounting advice to our clients, specifically:

• Leading strategic client engagements on the implementation and application of new accounting standards, as well as complex accounting for novel products and structured transactions. This involves challenging client perspectives and guiding them through intricate accounting landscapes.
• Acting as a lead subject matter expert for audit teams, providing authoritative guidance and insights on structured transactions and highly complex accounting judgements. You will mentor and develop junior team members in these areas.
• Orchestrating seamless, integrated expert input by collaborating closely with other Deloitte teams, including tax, risk, and regulatory specialists, to deliver holistic and comprehensive client solutions.
• Leading complex transaction accounting support for both audit teams and assurance clients, overseeing the analysis and resolution of critical accounting issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other significant transactions.
• Directing and overseeing accounting policy and financial statements reviews, developing robust methodologies and ensuring the highest quality of output.
• Fostering and leading diverse teams within an inclusive team culture, championing individual contributions and professional development. We are looking for candidates who, in addition to the above:
+ Are recognised experts in applying IFRS and/or UK GAAP to solve complex firm and client issues, demonstrating innovative and pragmatic problem-solving abilities. + Proactively cultivate and leverage extensive internal and external networks to identify new opportunities, enhance client relationships, and drive business development. + Demonstrate exceptional leadership in managing, mentoring, and developing diverse teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment where individuals are empowered to excel. + Are champions of knowledge sharing and mentorship, actively contributing to the collective expertise of the team and guiding the professional growth of colleagues

To qualify for this opportunity, you must have the following experience/skills:
• A qualified accountant with a proven track record of working within the accounting policy team of a professional services firm, a front office role within a relevant industry, or leading large listed IFRS or UK GAAP audits within a relevant industry
• Demonstrated expertise in leading and resolving highly complex IFRS and/or UK GAAP accounting issues, with a strong ability to provide strategic advice and practical solutions
• Strong commercial acumen regarding businesses within the industry you are applying for, enabling you to understand client challenges and provide commercially relevant advice
• Prior experience at a Senior Manager level or equivalent within a professional services environment, demonstrating the ability to manage large engagements, lead teams, and develop client relationships
  
  Connect to your Industry
Our Assurance practice encompasses skills across regulation and finance with a deep analytics capability. We harness these to provide Assurance to those charged with governance, serving the public interest. Working in Assurance means you will have an opportunity to work alongside leading experts, as we help build and enhance trust between businesses and the public, by responding to emerging issues and protecting the public interest. Providing assurance to help businesses become more resilient, agile and better prepared for the future. To be resilient, businesses must be ready to respond to current and future challenges and opportunities. They are increasingly being required to be more transparent with their reporting, to drive trust and confidence in the market, and protect the wider public interest. Assurance builds, maintains and develops confidence. We provide independent assurance by assessing the risks and underlying processes, providing conclusions as to which risks are being managed and mitigated in line with the business' appetite for risk. Deloitte's assurance offerings help those charged with governance to understand their business and build trust amongst key stakeholders and regulators. Assurance For those charged with governance, the focus on setting clear, high quality reporting standards has never been greater. The Assurance team specialise in assuring the financial statement, transactions and accounting. By collaborating with other teams and our global network of specialists, they deliver assurance that protects the public interest and fosters even greater levels of trust, underpinned by our priority focus on quality. Our Assurance clients include some of the largest, most successful and fast-growing companies across the globe. They are complex, influential and exciting. You will be principally focused on improving the reliability and efficiency of finance processes and controls for external financial reporting with an impressive portfolio of clients. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Connect to your opportunity This role offers a variety of exciting opportunities to add value to our clients through a range of projects, including complex accounting assurance services, pre and post transaction support, GAAP conversions and new accounting standard support. The extent of our offerings will ensure you gain an unrivalled breadth of varied and well-rounded experience working with some of the most complex, fastest growing and exciting companies across the globe. The Accounting Advisory group is a dedicated team of IFRS and UK GAAP experts that seek to use the accounting standards constructively and positively to help clients achieve their desired objectives - be it providing expert input and challenge to transactions or providing the assurance that their IFRS or GAAP reporting will stand up to scrutiny. We are currently recruiting and would particularly consider expertise in areas such as Banking and Capital Markets (BCM), Commodities (covering metals, energy, and agri commodities), and Investment Management, Private Equity, and Real Estate (IMPE). As a Senior Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the provision of high-quality accounting advisory services to our diverse client base. You will be instrumental in shaping client solutions and driving the growth of our practice, We know it's not just about the numbers. Often, we let technology take care of those. It's about the creative and collective thinking or our people. That's where the true insight is found. We're redefining the future of audit. Come join us. Assurance Businesses need to be resilient and transparent in their reporting to build trust and confidence. Assurance practitioners play a key role in achieving this through independent review and challenge of management's views on a range of regulatory and reporting requirements, whether financial, operational or compliance in nature. Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further details as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request. Connect with your colleagues "I assumed the culture would be very corporate, however, I have worked with people who have different personalities and approaches to the way they work. We do have a clear brand, but everyone is encouraged to be themselves." - Alice, Audit and Assurance "The team I support works with one of Deloitte's biggest clients. To be involved with such an influential client so early in my career is really rewarding; I love it." - Owen, Audit and Assurance "The progression at Deloitte is steady and I've always felt in control of my own career path. You can learn something new here every day which I really enjoy." - Ali, Audit and Assurance, For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application. Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.