PwC is looking for new Directors within our Insurance focused Technology Consulting team. We are looking for people with skills in Claims and/or Core systems transformation and also people with broader technology enabled insurance transformation experience.
The increased focus on transparency within the marketplace and ever-increasing regulatory requirements need to be addressed in parallel. Our Financial Services (FS) client base covers a breadth of FTSE100 organisations covering Retail and Commercial Banking, Capital markets, Insurance and Investment Management (I&IM). In the current economic climate, organisations are increasingly turning to PwC for advice on leveraging their business operations and sustainably developing their organisations in response to market opportunities.
We deliver high value solutions, from strategy to execution, solving our clients’ complex business problems through technology enablement.
• Driving value from technology and operations
• Customer reach
• Technology resilience
• Competitive advantage through agility
• Risk and regulatory complexity
• Achieving business insight
• Achieving business growth
About the role
Within the field of Technology Consulting this is a senior level appointment for a Director to be responsible for:
• building relationships with our key Insurance clients;
• identifying client needs and proposing solutions to them;
• leading the delivery of projects;
• developing the careers of the teams working with and reporting to you;
• being part of the leadership team in the Consulting I&IM practice; and
• maintaining a consistently high and leading edge market profile.
The ideal candidate would be interested in progressing their career to the next level with an aim of becoming a candidate for partnership in an average two to four year timescale.
Additional information
• Opportunity for working from home? (Some - depends on projects)
• Amount of time client based (70%)
• Need to travel/overnight stays away from home (Yes - 30%)
• Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? (Some - depends on projects)
• Amount of time PwC office based (30%)
Key responsibilities
The following skills and experience are required for this role:
Essential skills:
• Must have extensive experience & network within the financial services and particularly insurance industry;
• A working knowledge of the application and solution architecture choices within the insurance technology landscape;
• Recent experience of core package configuration and integration;
• An accomplished practitioner in helping insurance clients construct application, solution and enterprise architectures
• Understanding of cost-to-serve models
• Practical experience of SDLCs and delivery models including iterative / RAD approaches
• Excellent interpersonal skills & networking ability to develop and nurture contacts;
• Individual, Social and Business Interaction - Flexible in using a range of influencing styles in order to build strong sustainable relationships, and demonstrating the firm's values;
• Business acumen to identify client’s real business needs which PwC can satisfy;
• First class delivery skills of large, complex and multi-vendor projects;
• Solid and articulate report, proposal and article writing skills to communicate corporate viewpoints on breaking news and technical publications;
• Personal and Professional Development - Committed to seeking and acting on feedback and learning opportunities;
• A track record of coaching and developing team members; and
• A track record of sales and delivery within a similar environment.
Desirable skills:
• Business Skills - Understanding our client's business and showing strong commercial acumen in the seeking out of opportunities and the winning of work;
• Delivery Skills - The ability to use our industry and technical skills to better deliver practical solutions that are valued by the client, for instance the shaping and delivery of Service Oriented Architecture solutions;
• Analytical Skills - Identifying and diagnosing client issues through rigorous analysis, including data analytics, rather than selling PwC solutions; and
• Technical Skills – Knowledge of a subset of key packages used in the insurance industry – e.g. Life & Pensions administration systems, General Insurance administration systems, London Markets systems, Salesforce.com, Pega etc)
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