Edenbrook
Assistant Syndicate Accountant
London
Posted about 20 hours ago
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Assistant Syndicate Accountant
We are working with a leading organisation within the Lloyd’s and London Market insurance sector to recruit an Assistant Syndicate Accountant.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Ledgers
- Maintain accurate and complete financial ledgers, including year-of-account roll-forwards, new year set-up and class-of-business configuration.
- Support the year-end close process and ensure delivery in line with agreed timetables.
- Prepare and post distribution journals relating to the closure of underwriting years.
Lloyd’s Central Accounting and Reconciliations
- Prepare and post monthly accounting journals within the month-end timetable.
- Complete monthly reconciliations, ensuring all differences are investigated, evidenced, assigned and resolved promptly.
- Work closely with Operations and other stakeholders to identify variances, agree ownership and ensure timely resolution of outstanding items.
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Management and Regulatory Reporting
- Deliver accurate and complete ledger entries, including journals to trial balance.
- Ensure accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, fees, bank transactions and tax entries are accurately recorded and appropriately supported.
- Prepare accurate and timely regulatory submissions to Lloyd’s, maintaining a clear audit trail and appropriate review evidence.
- Coordinate with external auditors and support the timely resolution of audit requests, issues and reporting deliverables.
Expense and VAT Management
- Support and oversee periodic group recharges, ensuring costs are complete, accurate and appropriately evidenced.
- Calculate and substantiate accruals and prepayments.
- Produce expense-to-plan analysis, explaining material variances and supporting management decision-making.
- Prepare accurate and timely VAT returns and work closely with the relevant tax team to resolve queries.
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Investment Accounting
- Complete investment reconciliations and investigate and resolve any discrepancies.
- Operate key portfolio controls, including issuer concentration and credit rating checks, escalating any exceptions where appropriate.
- Ensure investment-related ledger entries are processed accurately and within reporting deadlines.
About You
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience within the Lloyd’s or London Market insurance sector.
- Strong experience in financial reconciliations and reporting.
- Experience of working with external auditors and third-party service providers.
- Progress towards an accountancy qualification would be advantageous.
- Excellent attention to detail, strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- A collaborative approach and the confidence to work with stakeholders across Finance, Operations and other business areas.
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Skills
Financial Ledgers
Financial Reconciliations
Regulatory Reporting
Investment Accounting
VAT Management
Audit Coordination
Expense Analysis
Lloyd's Market Knowledge
Month-end Closing
Accruals and Prepayments
Trial Balance
Portfolio Controls
Location