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Financial Accountant Opportunity
We're looking for a qualified Financial Accountant to join a leading specialist insurance business on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is ideal for someone with insurance accounting experience who enjoys technical financial reporting, process improvement, and working on finance transformation projects.
You'll play a key role in producing UK GAAP and IFRS financial results, ensuring data integrity, supporting regulatory reporting, and contributing to the implementation of new finance systems and reporting capabilities. Working closely with Finance, Actuarial, IT, and Underwriting teams, you'll help deliver high-quality financial reporting while driving continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce accurate UK GAAP and IFRS technical financial results, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Analyse financial performance, identifying key drivers and providing meaningful insight against business forecasts.
- Support statutory and regulatory reporting by providing technical accounting guidance and financial commentary.
- Perform reconciliations, validations, and data quality checks to ensure completeness and accuracy throughout the reporting process.
- Support a major finance transformation programme, including data migration, system integration testing (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Act as a subject matter expert on finance change initiatives, helping improve financial systems, controls, and reporting processes.
- Collaborate with Finance, Actuarial, IT, and Underwriting teams to enhance reporting quality and data integrity.
- Provide support to senior finance leadership on technical reporting matters and ad hoc projects.
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- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of UK GAAP and IFRS reporting.
- Experience within the insurance or reinsurance sector.
- Excellent financial analysis and variance analysis skills.
- Advanced Excel skills with experience handling large and complex datasets.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial results to a range of stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving, process improvement, and data quality.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
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