Business Services

Reference: ASA-105457

ASA Recruitment's client is a leading provider of professional services, including Audit, Tax and Advisory Services.
The Performance, Governance and Compliance practice works with its clients on a broad range of business issues including financial management and operational transformation.
Their aim is simple: to be regarded by the market as the best advisors, trusted by our clients and the envy of our competitors. Their strategy is centred on their people. Their aim is to attract and retain the best by creating an environment where people can learn, progress, be fulfilled and successful in their chosen advisory career.
In the Business Effectiveness team, you will be working with clients to identify and help them to realise value within their business. This may involve working on business strategy, identifying new markets, streamlining processes, improving customer service and managing complex change. They work across a variety of industry segments including corporate & investment banking, investment management, retail banking, general insurance and life insurance. They also provide organisation and people development expertise across all areas.
The team has grown over the last two years to 150 people and its continued success in the market has led to a number of new positions in Central Scotland for candidates with experience in one or more of the following competency areas:
Project Management: Helping clients to shape and deliver successful projects and programmes.
Strategic Change: Working with clients on a range of strategic issues - identifying opportunities for delivering greater value from their business and supporting them in realising this value.
Process & Functional Change: Assisting clients to assess and improve existing business processes or functions, to measure the potential benefit and to implement the required changes.
Customer Product & Channel Management: Creating competitive advantage solutions by the defining and implementing leading edge customer, product, and channel solutions.

The Role ·
Taking a lead role in executing large client programmes, delivering the highest quality service to clients, meeting and exceeding their expectations
Developing new client relationships and helping to enhance the reputation
Playing a lead role in helping to develop propositions, products and services to meet client needs
Taking a key role in the growth of the team and supporting the development of other team members
Managing your own development in accordance with agreed personal and team goals.

The Experience
A substantial amount of experience working for a major advisory practice with Life Insurance or industry experience preferably running a distribution operation
Excellent knowledge of the core products, processes and distribution channels for Life. · A finance background is desirable.
Highly skilled in delivering projects in the competencies described above. A proven track record in delivering high quality project, work-stream or assignment outputs.

The Individual
Pro active and enthusiastic self-starter who can take ideas and turn them into practical reality
Driven by the need to excel, in particular having a strong client focus Strong communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting client relationships
Commerciality - demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growing the business

Whilst not a mandatory requirement the individual would also be well placed to make a major contribution to the development of the Life Insurance practice by, for example:
Having a good set of relationships within Life Insurance industry
Having gained experience in deploying technology to enhance processes Having a good knowledge of the industry and being able to articulate who/what looks good in key areas such as distribution, product, sales, etc .