Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Play a key role in the production of monthly and quarterly packs for senior management and the board.
- Deliver Balanced Scorecard reporting and develop appropriate to show true key performance indicators.
- Specific accountabilities, depending on discipline may include:
- Deliver sales reporting
- Produce cost center reports on a monthly basis, analyzing data and investigating variances. Challenge cost center managers, forecast and determine impact on success of corporate objectives such as major projects.
- Administer the expense accounting data in the corporate ledger , and within the department, to ensure that accounting data is up to date and accurate and meets the needs of the business
- Produce regular reports, regulatory returns and reconciliations. Examples may include the below depending on your specialism
- Produce or support the production of Statutory Accounts
- Manage the completion of regulatory and statistical expense related returns .
- Responsibility for preparation of the monthly allocation reporting.
- Be able to investigate any inconsistencies and where appropriate challenge cost centre managers on their allocation percentages
- Co-ordinate month-end close for the selected lines of business with Actuarial, Investment and Tax teams
- Preparation of the annual earnings plan for the UK division as a whole
- Prepare reports and deliver in person explanation of monthly results for selected Lines of Business to the following customers;
- Line of Business management
- Heads of Finance, Actuarial and Corporate Division
- UK Division management
- Canadian parent company
- Co-ordinate the monthly close timetable, ensuring corporate deadlines can be met with suitable time for local management review of results. monitoring and ensuring progress across functions (including as examples; Finance, Actuarial, Investments and Tax)
- Prepare quarterly management accounting reports for External Auditors, Boards and Parent company
- Support the reconciliations between local and regulatory reporting. Review and obtain sign off for the reconciliation.
- Ensure that all validation errors within the regulatory reporting systems are cleared prior to submission.
- Ensure that appropriate controls over regulatory reporting exist and that these are operating effectively.
- Identify and implement process changes to improve quality as well as processing times to ensure that the regulatory reporting deadlines can be met.
- Keep up to date with changes to regulatory reporting requirements and other regulators that could potentially impact reporting.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the needs of the business.
- Will be able to apply technical accounting techniques and understand business/commercial implications
- Understand complex data and information with the ability to interpret and recommend commercially astute courses of action; constructively challenging and helping develop others’ thinking and understanding.
- Proven ability to lead projects, to deliver on-time, in-full.
- Willing and capable of making decisions independently in order to progress issues, and able to exercise sound judgement and commercial sense to understand the importance of different issues and assess when matters need to be escalated.
- Strong communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communication in a complex environment, tailored for all levels of management.
- Strong ability to adapt messages to the audience in a format that is easily understood by non-technical colleagues
- Strong influencing skills
- The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across the finance function, acting with integrity and role modelling the company values at all times.
- Strong interpersonal/networking skills, with the ability to maintain a variety of relationships with multiple stakeholders,
- Ability to flex their style and delivery, in the moment, depending on the individual and/or audience.
- Sound problem solving skills and attention to detail with demonstrable ability in spotting issues, interdependencies and challenges to ensure work is produced to an accurate, commercial and informed standard.
- Self-motivated, well-organized, pragmatic and able to perform tasks independently.
- An interested and inquisitive individual who is committed to their own ongoing professional and personal development
- Either ACCA or CIMA qualified
Reference no: 108043