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Financial Controller
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A leading independent insurance business is seeking an experienced Financial Controller to join its London-based finance leadership team. This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong, qualified accountant to play a key role within a growing, entrepreneurial insurance organisation operating across multiple specialist underwriting businesses.
Your new role
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the financial reporting activities across multiple insurance entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Oversee statutory reporting under IFRS and group reporting to an international parent company.
- Maintain and enhance the financial control framework, ensuring strong governance and compliance.
- Manage the year-end audit process and build effective relationships with external auditors.
- Provide technical accounting expertise across areas including revenue recognition, acquisitions, and share-based payments.
- Partner with underwriting, claims, and operations teams to deliver meaningful management information and analysis.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial planning activities.
- Oversee transactional finance processes, including payroll and insurance accounting activities.
- Drive continuous improvement and finance change initiatives across the business.
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What you'll need to succeed
- Qualified accountant (ACA) with significant post-qualified experience.
- Background within insurance, reinsurance, MGA, or wider financial services environments.
- Strong technical accounting and financial reporting expertise, ideally gained within a Top 10 or Big 4 audit firm and/or industry.
- Experience managing audits and operating within a robust control environment.
- Commercially minded with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving business.
- Proven track record of improving processes and delivering change.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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What you'll get in return
- Senior leadership exposure and direct interaction with the CFO.
- Opportunity to influence finance strategy within a growing insurance platform.
- Broad remit covering reporting, controls, planning, and business partnering.
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