Financial Accountant
Location: Hybrid / Eastleigh, Hampshire
Hours: 37.5 Hours a week (Monday – Friday 9am-5pm)
Salary: £36,000 - £42,000 (DOE)
Contract: FTC (12 Months – 14 Months)
Are you a detail-oriented finance Accountant with a passion for accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement? Our client, a prominent player in the insurance sector, is seeking a dedicated and analytical individual to join their Finance team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting the monthly close process, preparing financial statements, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting across their UK entities. You'll contribute to core reporting requirements and support the team in delivering key strategic projects.
Our client is one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK, with their people being central to their thriving, creative, and innovative workplace. They pride themselves on the service they provide to over four million customers.
Main Responsibilities as Accountant:
* Supporting the control and delivery of the monthly close process for UK entities, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and associated balance sheet entries are valid.
* Timely and accurate reporting and reconciliation of the consolidated IFRS balance sheet to Group and senior management on a monthly basis.
* Preparation of first-level financial information for various stakeholders within the UK group.
* Meeting internal and external tax compliance requirements across all types of business taxes (excluding payroll taxes).
* Preparing the annual financial statements for the UK entities, including liaising with external auditors and ensuring appropriate internal reviews take place.
* Critically reviewing monthly close processes and documented procedures to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, ensuring controls are updated as appropriate.
* Supporting the team with ad hoc queries, projects, and the development of knowledge and understanding within the team.
* Building effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Actuarial, Underwriting, Payroll, and other parts of Finance.
Skills and Experience You Need as Accountant:
* Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
* An understanding of the technical aspects of accounting and its application.
* Good Excel skills.
* Experience using general ledger (e.g., Oracle’s E1) and reporting tools (e.g., IBM’s Cognos TM1) is desirable.
* Excellent attention to detail, with a core value set focused on delivering high-quality outputs.
* Excellent numerical skills and the ability to understand, evaluate, and interpret financial data, identifying and resolving apparent inconsistencies.
* Strong organisational and planning skills and the ability to prioritise and timetable workflows.
About Our Client & Benefits:
Our client offers a wide range of benefits to support their employees and their families inside and outside of work. They have achieved Top Employer status in the UK and are committed to creating a positive and supportive work environment.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
* Flexible Working: They embrace smart working, offering flexibility around location (within the UK) and, for many roles, flexibility within the working day to manage personal commitments. They also offer all vacancies part-time/job-share options. Employees receive a minimum of 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) and can buy and sell days.
* Supporting Your Health: Benefits include Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness cover, access to Mental Health First Aiders, and wellbeing activities such as Yoga and Mindfulness.
* Supporting Your Wealth: Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, a competitive Pension, Employee Savings, and Employee Loans are available.
* Supporting You at Work: Wellbeing activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, and Sports and Social Club events are offered.
* Supporting You and Your Family: Generous 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: Options include Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, and Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
* Supporting You Back to Work: A dedicated return to work programme after maternity leave.
As an inclusive employer, our client encourages anyone to apply. They are a signatory of key diversity charters and committed to ensuring their recruitment processes are fully inclusive. This means fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. They also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. They have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Their aim is to have great people everywhere in their business, and they're always looking for outstanding individuals to join them. Most roles across their business allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home, and they are open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time, or job share arrangements