Director Banking & Insurance

The organisation

The world around us is constantly changing and will continue to change radically in the coming years. Geo-political developments, climate change, the COVID crisis, new technologies; no company or organization can avoid the consequences of far-reaching digitization and computerization. 

Deloitte translates these challenges and market problems of the future into creative and innovative solution across industries. 

Deloitte is a professional services company with 330.000 employees worldwide and has offices in more than 150 countries. With more than 6,700 employees and 14 offices throughout the Netherlands, Deloitte is one of the largest providers of professional services in the field of audit & assurance, tax advice, consultancy, risk advice and financial advice. Professionals are working in multidisciplinary teams and therefore have a very broad vision of the issues of our clients. 

Deloitte is the reliable and innovative partner that provides insight to clients into opportunities for their future business. Their approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help their clients excel anywhere in the world. 

The position

Currently, financial services companies are under an immense amount of pressure. New regulations and standards, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), cyber risk, and changing technology, processes, and internal controls all contribute to a dynamic business environment. Our services can fulfill a variety of needs, from audit to accounting and reporting advisory services. We are looking for partners to lead our teams in Banking & Insurance. 

We want to contribute actively through client work to a more responsible and resilient society and continue to build trust in the financial reporting ecosystem by being at the forefront of Audit.

We will steer on collaboration through cross business, cross industry topics, and our multidisciplinary (MDM) platforms (Cyber, Legal, S4Hana, Cloud, M&A, Sustainability). 

Furthermore, through our client work we want to have a tangible impact on the key societal challenges in the Netherlands. The societal challenges are translated internally (and externally) in the future of themes: Health, Food, Work, Security and Energy. These themes are our vehicle to have a distinctive voice in the market.

Our Audit & Assurance strategy 2023 aligns to Deloitte's multidisciplinary approach, which calls for us to make an impact that matters as we bring integrity and trust to capital markets and lead the way in defining the audit of the future. Our unrelenting commitment to quality, transformation, and technology enablement will enable us to achieve balanced growth, protect and enhance our brand, and provide an unrivalled talent experience for all our professionals.

Executing on five strategic pillars,we aspire to:
1.    lead in quality
2.    provide an unrivalled talent experience
3.    establish a leading position in the market
4.    transform & technology enable our audit, and
5.    create the audit of the future

At Deloitte Audit & Assurance, we have high ambitions. We want to make an impact on clients and society by adding trust to financial statements and be the undisputed leader in the profession. To achieve our ambitions, we need a strong enabling culture that balances high quality, care for each other and growth.

Our goal is to embed the Culture Compass in everything we do.

Audit
There’s more to our clients’ numbers, like accomplishments and aspirations. By letting the numbers speak objectively, we bring assurance to aspiration by delivering an accurate and validated picture of the world, mapping the direction of change as it happens by adding our broad historical perspective to financial ¬information, we have ¬expanded our traditional approach to ¬financial reporting to include elements that look ahead and cover a wider scope of topics like corporate culture, sustainability practices, ethical standards and practices, social responsibility practices, corporate purpose and cyber risk. 
 
In other words, today’s complex business environment requires the audit to be dynamic, multidisciplinary and insightful. Companies expect audits to provide real-time, relevant information and to evolve with their changing businesses and processes. So, we must be their forward-looking sparring partner, enabling them through being accountable. We empower our clients by helping them to stay a truer course. 
With Deloitte Audit they won’t lose sight of their own commitments but continue to run their business to achieve their aspirations and deliver on a broader purpose, while best serving the public interest.

Audit Advisory
Audit Advisory comprise experienced team members with a financial audit background, mostly Certified Auditors and in possession of an IFRS accreditation. With this experience we provide fit-for-purpose solutions; pragmatic but robust on compliance and audit readiness. Our expertise allows us to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions that are tailored to your circumstances.
 
What is Audit Advisory and what do we do?
We provide advisory services using our background in Financial Audit.  So, instead of certifying from an independent position, we provide support by working together with our clients. Our Advisory Services cover complex challenges related to Accounting, Internal Control and Finance Maturity. 

Our advisory services are designed to always result in ‘audit ready’ output, achieving acceptance by your external auditor. The client base for our Advisory services comprise . International corporates, larger privately owned companies, fast growing businesses and financial services.

Tasks & responsibilities

We are active in all regions in the Netherlands. Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance practice has gained significant market share over the last couple of years, especially for large Dutch corporates. The same has happened for Deloitte’s consulting practice where it has leapfrogged the competition and is now a market leader.

From an audit perspective there should be no doubt about the qualities to successfully run an audit engagement which includes 

• managing client expectations, 
• discuss and report adequatly on high impact audit findings with Management and Supervisory Board, 
• inspire and motivate the audit team, 
• ensure all audit requirements are met including those of the professional practice department. 
• The audit files should withstand the highest quality standards. 

Development of highly talented professionals to become Partner and Director is part of the responsibilities

Candidate profile

• A Master’s degree from an accredited university followed by an official Auditing degree (i.e. RA) 
• More than 15 years of experience providing audit services to clients 
• An excellent track record of delivering audit engagements with high client satisfaction rates and zero audit annotations. 
• Has demonstrated the ability to ‘win’ new audit engagements 
• Trustworthy personality and considered a sparring partner at board level for executives in the sector. 
• Good view on the market of assigned industry , their current auditors and potential audit prospects. 
• In-depth knowledge of the industry and regulatory framework. 
• Extensive knowledge of the (future) trends and developments in the industry, is part of the public debate and has the ability to translate this to added value to clients 

Skills & competencies

• Proven leadership skills including the ability to inspire and motivate audit teams through challenging times, build such teams and develop talented individuals,
• Fostering diversity and inclusion; 
• A team player, who can work successfully with other practices and has a broad view on success 
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with internal/external stakeholders
• Demonstrates the ability for independent judgement based on an inquisitive mindset combined with perseverance and taking responsibility 
• A highly energetic and authentic professional, who builds trust and communicates openly both internally and externally. Confident, charismatic, impactful and can quickly establish credibility. 
• Demonstrable ability to balance a high-level view with detail. 
• Top-tier analytical skills, strategic thinking and project management skills. 
• Proactive, entrepreneurial and solution-oriented. 
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.  

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the form below. For more information please contact Henriette Verbeem, Partner, at +31 (0)6 15 26 81 13 or Frank van Veen, Partner, at +31 (0)6 15 67 63 99.

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