Are you a qualified accountant (ACA//ACCA) who is looking to progress their career with a global provider of insurance and financial services products?
The role is highly flexible with a requirement to attend the office minimum of once per week and it provides a unique opportunity to gain experience in both financial accounting and FP&A. The Senior Accountant will oversee the timely and accurate financial accounting and reporting of expenses for both internal and group purposes, in addition to handling financial planning and analysis for expense budgets.
Key Responsibilities
- Complete the month-end process for expenses, including reconciling financial ledgers and source data, while meeting group reporting requirements
- Analyze actual expenses against budgets an forecasts to ensure targets are met, identifying and reporting any surplus or deficit in a timely manner
- Prepare reports, KPI analysis, and presentations for various stakeholders and committees
- Develop budgets as part of the annual planning cycle
- Maintain strong working relationships with business partners and stakeholders
- Support the finance manager in tracking productivity initiatives
- Continuously review and update procedures to ensure they remain current, complete, and in line with best practices
- Evaluate and propose improvements to automate processes, enhancing efficiency, quality, and accuracy
- Assist and provide mentorship to junior team members
Required Experience
- Hold a professional certification (e.g., ACA, ACCA)
- Minimum of 2 years' post-qualification experience (PQE)
- Strong technical accounting experience
- Demonstrated experience of coordinating and delivering highly accurate output in an environment of multiple deadlines
- Advanced knowledge in excel, including building formulas, using pivot tables, formatting and manipulating data, working with large data sets, VBAs, Macros etc
- Proven ability to manage and complete a variety of projects simultaneously.
- Prior experience within a financial services environment
- Working knowledge of insurance accounting
- Prior General Ledger experience - SAP
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