Job Title: Accountant
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: 12-14mth FTC
Salary Range: £36k - £42k dependant on experience
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: 27th June 2025
Accountant: Are you a detail-oriented financeprofessional with a passion for accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement? Ageas UK is seeking a dedicated and analytical individual to join our Finance team, where you’ll play a key role in supporting the monthly close process, preparing financial statements, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting across our UK entities. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our core reporting requirements, as well as supporting the team in the delivery of some key strategic projects.
Main Responsibilities as Accountant:
1. Supporting the control and delivery of the monthly close process for the Ageas UK entities, ensuring that all transactions are accurately recorded and that associated balance sheet entries are valid.
2. Timely and accurate reporting and reconciliation of the Ageas UK consolidated IFRS balance sheet to Group and senior management on a monthly basis.
3. Preparation of first level financial information for various stakeholders within the UK group.
4. Meeting internal and external tax compliance requirements across all types of business taxes (excluding payroll taxes).
5. Preparing the annual financial statements for the Ageas UK entities, including liaising with external auditors and ensuring the appropriate internal reviews take place.
6. Critically reviewing monthly close processes and documented procedures to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, ensuring the controls are updated as appropriate.
7. Supporting the team with ad hoc queries, projects and the development of knowledge and understanding within the team.
8. Building effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Actuarial, Underwriting, Payroll and other parts of Finance.
Skills and experience you need as Accountant:
9. Qualified or part qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
10. An understanding of the technical aspects of accounting and its application
11. Good Excel skills
12. Experience using Oracle’s E1 (general ledger) and IBM’s Cognos TM1 (reporting tool) desirable
13. Excellent attention to detail, and a core value set that is focused on delivering high quality outputs
14. Excellent numerical skills and the ability to understand, evaluate and interpret financial data, identifying and looking to resolve apparent inconsistencies
15. Strong organisational and planning skills and the ability to prioritise and timetable workflows.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family-Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.