This is a hybrid role with regular weekly office attendance required
Excellent opportunity to join our Group Finance team at Admiral as a Group IFRS Accounting Manager.
The Role
The Group IFRS Accounting Manager will lead a team of five to deliver accurate, compliant, and timely Group financial reporting. The role is central to strengthening the Group’s financial control environment, with a focus on IFRS technical reporting, consolidation, and insightful analysis.
They will oversee the full Group consolidation process and manage the preparation and review of statutory financial statements, including the Annual Report.
We’re looking for someone with strong technical accounting expertise, proven leadership and communication skills, and the ability to build effective cross‑functional relationships. This person will drive reporting improvements, enhance controls, and ensure high‑quality financial outputs.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Financial Statements: Manage the preparation and review of the Group’s financial statements and notes for inclusion in the Annual Report, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with IFRS, the Group Accounting Manual, and external reporting requirements including ESEF.
2. IFRS and FRS: Oversee technical accounting activities, including owning the group accounting manual and the assessment, interpretation, and implementation of new accounting standards and IFRIC interpretations. Oversee the production of high‑quality technical papers for stakeholders across the Group and external auditors, and work collaboratively with the Insurance Accounting team on IFRS matters.
3. Parent Company financial statements: Lead the accounting, preparation, and review of the Parent Company financial statements and associated internal and external reporting requirements.
4. Process & Control: Hold direct ownership of critical reporting processes and documentation, proactively identifying and implementing process improvements. Strengthen the financial reporting control environment and ensure clear, well‑defined control ownership.
5. Manage day-to-day reporting systems: Manage the Group’s key reporting and consolidation processes and systems day-to-day, including stewardship of the consolidation tool and final‑mile reporting system. Work with group finance systems team to ensure systems are fit for purpose, well‑governed, and support high‑quality reporting outputs.
6. Group Consolidation: Lead the Group consolidation process, including review of consolidation journals.
7. Entity-Level Reporting including Group Timetable: Own the Group reporting timetable and coordinate submissions across all reporting entities to meet Board timelines. Review local submissions, resolve accounting queries, and ensure adherence to reporting deadlines and quality standards.
8. Analytical Review: Perform regular reviews of financial data across the Group in collaboration with the insurance accounting team to identify trends and support the production of high-quality management information for internal boards, committees, and external stakeholders.
9. Audit Liaison: Lead the audit relationship, building strong working relationships with external auditors, managing key deliverables and facilitating smooth communication across business areas.
10. Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues across Finance, Investor Relations, Risk, and other Group functions to ensure alignment and shared understanding. Present at senior stakeholder groups (finance manager review groups) as required
11. Ad-Hoc Support: Provide flexible support to Group and UK Finance teams as needed, being an active contributor to wider finance initiatives and priorities.
Essential Skills & Experience
12. + years post‑qualified experience (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
13. Strong technical accounting expertise with the ability to interpret and apply IFRS and produce clear impact assessments.
14. Proven experience improving financial processes and controls, with a proactive approach to identifying and delivering enhancements.
15. Solid experience in financial reporting and consolidation.
16. Demonstrated ability to lead and support a team effectively.
17. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to present complex information clearly.
18. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
19. Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capability, with the ability to extract meaningful insight from complex data.
Desirable Skills & Experience
20. Experience within General Insurance or the wider Financial Services sector (beneficial but not essential)
21. Hands on systems experience (ideally Tagetik), including managing standing data and supporting system improvements.
Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
Admiral: Where You Can
We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £, of free shares each year after one year of service.
Everyone receives days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.
We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.
Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits.
Disability Confident Leader
As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.
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