Senior Consultant, Operations Transformation – Insurance, Consulting

January 28, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Senior Consultant, Operations Transformation – Insurance, Consulting

Company: Deloitte

Job description: Connect to your Industry

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology, and corporate finance, we help our client’s 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 career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, 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

If you’re looking for a role in a fast paced, exciting environment where you can make a big impact in the General Insurance, London Markets or Specialty (re)insurers then this is the role for you. Benefiting from early client exposure and working with and learning from some of the top practitioners in our field, you will develop quickly, add real value and build credibility in the industry from an early stage thus increasing your own marketability.

Your role

  • Working and starting to lead as part of a team of industry specialists providing consulting services across major insurance clients, so you will quickly build upon your existing industry knowledge to become an expert in your field
  • Primarily focusing on the delivery of client work that will successfully fulfil and exceed client expectations and deliver engagement and programme objectives
  • Owning clear deliverables and leading small teams and starting to develop strong long-term client relationships with an aim to be recognized as a trusted business advisor in Insurance
  • Actively leading and contributing to the development of the Insurance practice team
  • Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution

Assignments will be focused across the full spectrum of the Insurance Market be that General Insurance, London Market or International business and will include:

  • Building the underwriter or broker of the future, transforming the way our clients assess and manage risk using new ways of working
  • Creating insurance efficiency and automation, including Generative AI, digital tools, automation and more
  • Challenging how insurers and claims handlers should assess losses in an ever evolving space, enabled by technology
  • Delivering complex insurance transformations in the London Market, the General Market or Internationally
  • Re-design the operating model to enable the organisation of achieving strategic ambitions
  • Supporting our clients to shape and address their risk and regulatory agenda
  • Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities to improve the profitability
  • Structure and deliver digital transformation programmes to enable efficiency and growth benefits

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essentials

  • Experience within a (re)insurer or insurance brokerage working closely with or in transformation, or a consulting firm with a focus on Insurance engagements
  • Knowledge and understanding of the UK insurance industry and market, including macro trends (e.g. transformation drivers, regulatory, economic, and business factors) or disruptive technologies (e.g. Generative AI, and Digital) that are driving change and impacting business models of key institutions
  • Experience of delivering small projects or leading workstreams on transformations
  • Excellent ability in Microsoft Office, particularly in Powerpoint and Excel
  • Excellent communication and people skills, with a strong emphasis on team working
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work on diverse teams with a diverse range of people
  • An understanding of risk, how to mitigate risk and protect the firm’s reputation
  • “Can do” attitude with a real willingness to learn and participate
  • Enthusiasm and passion for the delivery of market leading solutions that make a difference
  • An understanding of the diverse requirements of clients and the need to work on projects in differing geographies and time zones

Desirable Skill Set Examples

  • Knowledge of business design and business architecture practices including process re-engineering or cost transformation
  • Experience of working in Agile delivery frameworks, especially in Insurance environments including Scrum
  • Ability to understand Project and Programme management disciplines including production of project plans, key quality Programme deliverables and working and delivering to strict time constraints

Connect to your business – Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

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. 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. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

“I see my role as helping and preparing the business towards new ways of working and guiding them along the change journey. I am passionate about people and constantly thinking about how I can make change easier for any impacted team.”

– Sophia, Consulting

“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.”

– Dan, Consulting

“I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.”

– Rhiannon, Consulting

“It’s such an inspiring place to work; everyone you talk to is working on something interesting.”

– Gillian, Consulting

Connect to your agile working options

Location: London

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

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Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

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.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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Location: London

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