Arthur Recruitment
Financial Accountant
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Financial Accountant
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
London | Hybrid Working
£80,000-£85,000 (plus bonus and benefits)
A leading global specialty insurer is looking to appoint a qualified Financial Accountant to support the production of its UK GAAP and IFRS technical results.
This is a broad role combining technical insurance accounting, financial analysis, data quality, and finance transformation. You will take a lead role in producing the financial result for a Lloyd’s Syndicate while supporting the implementation of a new finance data layer and technical subledger.
The role
- Lead the production of the quarterly UK GAAP and IFRS technical result.
- Ensure reporting is complete, accurate, and compliant with relevant accounting standards.
- Analyse financial performance and explain key movements against the Syndicate Business Forecast.
- Provide technical support and commentary to the regulatory and statutory reporting teams.
- Perform reconciliations, validations, and data-quality checks from source systems through to final reporting outputs.
- Investigate data issues and implement appropriate corrective actions and controls.
- Support the implementation of a new finance data layer and technical subledger.
- Assist with historical data conversion, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
- Act as a finance SME across wider systems, data, and transformation initiatives.
- Partner with Finance, Actuarial, IT, and Underwriting teams to improve reporting accuracy and data quality.
- Support ongoing improvements to processes, controls, and reporting efficiency.
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The person
- Qualified accountant: ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
- Experience working within insurance or reinsurance.
- Good knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS accounting principles.
- Exposure to Lloyd’s Syndicate accounting or reporting would be highly beneficial.
- Understanding of IFRS 17 and insurance technical results.
- Strong financial analysis, modelling, and variance-analysis skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets.
- Exposure to finance transformation, data migration, subledger implementation, SIT, or UAT would be advantageous.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly.
- Proactive approach to problem-solving, data quality, and control improvement.
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