About the role
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary – £80,000 to £100,000 + annual bonus
& benefits
Work Level - 2
Location – Reigate. Permanent Role
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid;
however, you should be able to travel to the office between 2 and 3 days per
week for this position.
Closing Date – Applications close 6th March 2026.
We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best
friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream
car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. And that means we
always work with heart.
Whether we're helping our customers or looking after
our people, you'll find there's a
warmth and friendliness to everything we do.
We're looking for a Senior Finance Accountant to
join our Insurance Money and Services team.
This is a great time to join and contribute to our growing
successes as Tesco Insurance is establishing itself.
You'll be working alongside our wider Finance team and reporting
to the Head of Financial Reporting and Control of Tesco Underwriting.
What you'll be doing
Take ownership of the Financial Control
Framework
Be responsible for First Line of defence for Tesco
Underwriting Finance
Develop and improve internal financial controls
Ensure compliance with ICFR (Internal Controls
over Financial Reporting) framework
Ensure consistency between ICFR and the
company's Risk Management framework
Ongoing updates of finance policies
Continuous improvement of processes and controls
documentation
Actively contribute to Stakeholder Engagement:
Liaise with actuaries, parent company and
external auditors.
Collaborate with underwriting & pricing,
claims, and actuarial teams to pre-empt financial implications
Present financial reporting to senior leadership
Team Leadership & People Management:
Support the Head of Financial Reporting &
Control in managing the reporting team, including day-to-day oversight,
coaching, and mentoring
Fostering a collaborative, high-performance
culture where people feel connected and thrive
Act as a role model and technical lead,
providing guidance on complex accounting and reporting issues
Workload planning and resource allocation to
meet tight deadlines across multiple reporting cycles.
Statutory and regulatory reporting:
Contribute to production and review &
challenge of statutory accounts, Solvency UK QRT's and Solvency and Financial
Condition Report
Ensure compliance with PRA reporting
requirements
Financial planning
Supporting the commercial finance team to ensure
forecasts reflect business drivers and emerging trends.
Provide insightful variance analysis and
commentary to support decision-making and strategic planning
We need you to have
Commercial
acumen & knowledge of the General Insurance Market – understanding the
business environment and confidence with making sense of complex, high
quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively analyse
and solve problems
Excellent
analytical thinking with the ability to interpret financial data and
strong attention to detail
Excellent
verbal and writing communication skills with the ability to present
financial information to non-financial stakeholders
Confident
in engaging with senior leadership, auditors and cross-functional teams
Proven
ability to lead, mentor, and develop junior finance professionals
Proven
ability to manage teams and fostering a collaborative, high-performance
culture
Strong
knowledge of IFRS (especially IFRS 17), and Solvency II/Solvency UK
Fully
qualified accountant with minimum 5 years' experience
And if you have any of these, even better
Ability
to work efficiently within Microsoft Office Applications including advanced
Excel to create relevant and effective reports using various data sources,
analysing data trends to help guide decision making.
Prior
exposure to audit or technical accounting in insurance
Understanding
of Risk and Controls management within a regulated industry and
demonstrate ability to deliver customer centric solutions.
Proactive
in identifying inefficiencies & control weaknesses and implementing
process/control improvements
We
don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the
brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What's in it for you
Prepare
for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
Private
Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365
days a year.
Performance
related annual bonus.
Indulge
in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the
opportunity to buy more.
Embrace
the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase
to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we'll give you a
second card to share with someone else.
Take
part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be
themselves. We're committed to maintain our inclusive workplace and celebrating
everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity
this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our
purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every
day.
Interviews
Interviews are expected to be shortly after closing
date.
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?
Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.
So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.
Let's make everyday a little better.
Our story
Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.
We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more