Job Description

My client can offer a highly attractive first-move into the industry sector, alongside excellent opportunities for internal career progression in the near future. My client is a rapidly expanding, highly prominent business in the insurance sector that is presently on the acquisition growth path. This is a highly ambitious business that can certainly offer the dynamic, progressive environment many similarly ambitious people seek. They pride themselves on their industry reputation, best practice approach across all areas, and repeated awards in employee satisfaction. They reward all staff with an attractive benefits package including genuine opportunities for progression, attractive private pension scheme, good holiday allowance, health insurance and life cover, 30% annual performance bonus, and more!

Having placed multiple people with the business over the past 10 years, we've seen repeated examples of quick promotion in the business and received excellent feedback from candidates. We can quite confidently say this business has an unrivalled staff retention.

• Engage with overseas teams, setting timetable and coordinating financial information to effect the group consolidation
• Prepare and review the consolidated group accounts and other relevant group subsidiaries where appropriate
• Liaise with auditors to achieve effective sign-off
• Provide finance oversight for new projects and portfolios, including integration, User Acceptance Testing coordination where needed
• Provide in depth analysis of the result on a monthly basis, to support shareholder and internal reporting.
• Support and review the preparation of Solvency II Pillar III quarterly and annual quantitative reporting templates for the regulated group
• Review, challenge and report on the performance of key finance controls and key risk indicators.
• Maintain and oversee development of the group's general ledger for new projects, portfolios and optimization of processes
• Oversight of technical accounting for the group and provide support to other group companies
• Review and write technical accounting papers for review by the FD, CFO, Board and external audit
• Develop and administer the groups accounting manual
• Where required provide senior technical accounting support to other group companies
• Continually assess, test and challenge finance department processes, accounting policies and strategies to ensure ongoing improvements and success are embedded within the teams

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities