Job Description

Connect to your Industry

Deloitte\'s CFO Advisory practice help Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Chief Accounting Officers (CAOs), Controllers, and business unit finance leaders solve complex financial accounting and reporting issues affecting risk, integrity and efficiency. We build and deliver issue- and industry-aligned, technology and data-enabled solutions to help our clients achieve a world-class controllership function.

Our team of accounting and reporting specialists within Deloitte CFO Advisory Services focus in the following areas:

• Accounting & Reporting Advisory - Assist companies in understanding, assessing impact and operationalizing complex accounting and reporting changes resulting from shifting regulations, new accounting standards and capital market transactions including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Controllership innovation- Inefficient or ineffective Finance and Accounting operations (including inefficient financial close process) or anticipated Finance transformation spur desire to bring innovation (Technology, Operating Model and Process) to the Controllership function.
• Integration/Divesture/Readiness Services - Assist companies in meeting the accounting and reporting challenges resulting from business transactions such as acquisitions, divestitures and initial public offerings.
• implementing new internal controls standards, compliance with SOX, integrating governance and controls into ERP implementations, compliance risks resulting from digital transformations and changes to accounting processes

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

As a Client Service Leader, you\'ll own development of Deloitte\'s CFO Advisory expertise and client base within the Life Sciences industry sector. You\'ll provide leadership to shape, create and deliver world-class offerings in the marketplace and will play a key role in:

• Splitting time between business development (40%) and delivery (60%); with a foundation in client management.
• Demonstrating track records of managing teams of high-performing professionals while building their practice. You\'ll participate in and help direct nationwide business development and relationship management activities for Deloitte clients and prospects.
• Working with the team providing leadership to shape, create and sustain lasting relationships in the marketplace.
• Providing leadership for constructing and integrating Deloitte\'s current offerings to serve client needs.
• Playing a key role in helping guide the firm\'s continued development of leading-edge consulting within Accounting and & Internal Controls.

Your day-to-day tasks may include:

Engagement Execution:

• Overseeing the delivery of engagements; Participating in engagement planning and budgeting; managing engagement economics; managing engagement risk;

Business Development:

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Practice Development & Eminence:

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People Development:

\xc2\xb7 Actively participating in recruitment and retention activities; providing support for delivery teams; councilling, coaching and leading more junior members

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Technical or advisory related experience in entity and enterprise accounting and/or technical accounting is required
• Life Sciences industry expertise desirable
• Organisation leadership is essential
• Project leadership experience in areas such as process mapping, root cayse/ gap analysis, best fits requirements gathering / definition development, financial modelling aned value mapping
• Ability to perform and review technical research of complex accounting issues
• Mastery of operational and financial internal controls, including work related to compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
• Bachelor\'s degree (or equivalent experience) in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Risk Management, Economics or related field desirable
• Certification in any of the following is required: CPA, CIA, CFA, CA, CCA, CMA, CAIA, PMP or FRM
• Knowledge of U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and SEC rules and regulations
• Experience as a user of or administrator of a common ERP Finance and Reporting package (SAP, Oracle, JDE, etc)

Connect to your business - Risk Advisory

As recent events have reminded us, there are no certainties in business. Risk is everywhere. But so is opportunity. Your expertise will help our clients stay one step ahead of what hasn\'t even been imagined yet.

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

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-Lisa, Risk Advisory

\xe2\x80\x9cAt Deloitte you\'re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to.\xe2\x80\x9d

-Christian, Risk Advisory

Connect to your agile working options

Location:

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.

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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