Job Type:
Permanent
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
Financial Accountant - Part / Nearly Qualified / just qualified
Reporting to the Corporate Centre Financial Controller
London or Colchester or York - Hybrid working
We are looking for a nearly or just recently qualified accountant (ACA-ACCA-CIMA) to join the Corporate Centre finance team. The role provides exposure to Management and Financial Accounting, Statutory accounts preparation, Financial Analysis, Treasury, Accounts Payable etc. You will play an integral role in the cross-team deliverables, ensuring the Corporate Centre finance operations are set for optimal delivery at key quarterly results periods.
Key Responsibilities include:
* Maintaining the accounting records of the legal entities within Corporate Centre.
* Assisting with journal preparation, including associated workings, reports, and controls to enable timely monthly and quarterly submissions to Group Finance.
* Assisting with the preparation of Monthly/Quarterly close Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss packs and associated reconciliations.
* Assisting with the production of Statutory Accounts and associated audit documentation and requests leading on the year-end and interim audit processes with external auditors.
* Providing support in other areas including accruals, recharges, lease accounting, payroll, VAT group accounting.
* Assisting with balancing of Intercompany transactions and settlement across group entities.
* Assisting with resolving stakeholder queries including expenses analysis, variance analysis, forecasting, cash flow reporting, Office for National Statistics returns and any other ah-hoc submissions as required from time to time.
Person Specification:
* Recently qualified or nearly qualified accountant - ACA, CIMA, ACCA with (as a guide) 2-4 years' experience within Financial Services, Insurance or multi-national business.
* Knowledge of financial reporting, IFRS experience, management & statutory accounts preparation.
* Confident interrogating and analysing high volumes of data with an attention to detail
* Excellent Stakeholder Management and Communication Skills.
* Strong control mindset and experience (highly desirable).
* Oracle products and SmartView knowledge (highly desirable).
About Hiscox
As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.
We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.
Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.
Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.
Diversity and Hybrid working
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we're committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past few years that working life doesn't always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.
This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.
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