External Audit Manager - Insurance

Responsibilities

• Lead multi‑location teams, using your team and relationship management skills to ensure the delivery of high‑quality audit work from planning to completion, including the review of financial statements, ensuring that it meets PwC and regulatory standards.
• Lead the completion of areas of complex or judgemental audit work which includes identification of issues, analysis of data, articulation of findings, and the ability to draw informed conclusions.
• Manage the financial and resource aspects of audit engagements, demonstrating a commercial approach throughout.
• Lead internal projects supporting PwC and lines of service, and act as a role model, mentor and coach for junior staff members in your business unit.

• Must possess a Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualification (or an international equivalent) or have equivalent work experience, including international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country.
• Experience of IFRS and/or UK GAAP and international standards on auditing.
• Strong project management skills and experience managing an audit from planning to completion.
• Confident in challenging yourself and others to complete high‑quality testing and documentation.
• Ability to establish and nurture positive relationships across all levels – both internally and externally.

Our Insurance Audit practice is market‑leading with an extensive portfolio of flagship clients across all areas of the market – Life, Non‑Life, London Markets and Broking. Our team of 350 experts delivers audit services to our clients from offices across the UK. This provides our staff with a varied experience and great opportunities to learn and develop.

Joining Insurance Audit will give you the opportunity to work on both large and smaller audits. There is a broad range of client roles to align to your interest or give you a new challenge. Understanding our clients’ businesses and the risks they face is at the heart of what we do and is of utmost importance in upholding the highest levels of audit quality.

As a Manager, you’ll lead a team of forward‑thinking individuals to deliver high‑quality audits. You’ll gain in‑depth knowledge into how businesses run, gain direct access to internal stakeholders and clients and work with an unrivalled range of organisations we audit. A rewarding career path awaits, join our team to develop yourself as a professional and benefit from the wide range of development opportunities available at PwC.

In order to be the leading professional services firm, it’s important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy. Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade.

They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We’re a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose – to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate.

We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.