Financial Accountant - 12 month FTC Location: Bexhill - Hybrid Welcome to Hastings Direct We're a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we've made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same - building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business. The fact you're now reading this job advert means we've tempted you to find out more about lifeatHD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team. We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you. Role overview The Financial Accounts Team is responsible for the Management and Financial Accounting for the retail trading entity plus all of the holding companies within the Hastings Insurance Group including full Group consolidations. The team also ensures the integrity of the Group's Balance Sheets by performing monthly reconciliations and using business insight to understand the movements and provide informative commentary. Job details - you'll need to have demonstrable experience in: Production/review of all month end consolidation adjustments for the Hastings Insurance Group with adherence to IFRS17 Working closely with IT and Operations on our customer interest calculations to ensure accuracy Production/review of month end journals for Hastings and all holding entities within the Group, including accruals and provisions Working closely with Financial Planning & Analysis team to finalise month end results Production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, providing insightful commentary into movements and ownership of specific balance sheet area and leadership of related monthly control meetings Provision of data to external auditors Essential skills/experience: ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified Good organisational and time management skills Ability to analyse, summarise and insightfully comment upon data Strong Systems skills outside of pure accounting systems Excellent reconciliation skills and attention to detail Must be able to work on own initiative The interview process Our interview process involves the below: Recruiter screening call 1st stage interview with hiring leader 2nd interview with hiring leaders leader As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role Benefits: in addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus Physical wellbeing - as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs There's more! - 27 days annual leave bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more. Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we'll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve. Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.