Salary: Starting from £29, depending on experience)
Working hours: 35 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Location: Taunton
About the role
Lloyd & Whyte, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Senior Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team in their Taunton office.
The purpose of this role is to provide accounting support to the Finance Team, ensuring high levels of service are provided to our partners in support of the business strategy.
Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that's committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.
What you'll be doing
Daily management of workflow, queries and the team in the absence in the Accounts Supervisor
Handle a variety of complex work and referrals
Reconciliation of insurance company accounts including liaising with insurers to reconcile queries
Ensuring the Company accounting records are always up to date and appropriate escalation is taken
Communicating with colleagues with a view to settling any queries on premium postings
What you'll need to have
Confident and capable of building rapport over the telephone to provide an excellent client experience
Ability to work in a regulated, compliant and client focused environment
Organised, resourceful, deadline driven and supportive of the wider team
Hold AAT Level 3 qualification
IT literate
What makes you stand out
Demonstrate our values of Fun, Supportive, Professional, working in Partnership and Ambitious
Quality orientated with great attention to detail
What we offer
28days annual leave plus bank holidays
Your birthday off
Group Personal Pension
Bonus scheme
A holiday buy scheme
An array of health and wellbeing benefits, company cash plan, income protection and life assurance
Enhanced sick pay and parental leave
Support and funding toward study and professional qualifications
Paid time off for volunteering
Hear from the hiring manager
"We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated person to join our busy team. As a team we understand the importance of having fun together as well as getting the work done, so you can expect to eat too much cake or join in with one of our crafting projects"
Lloyd & Whyte offer a range of specialist insurance services to a variety of clients. Our specialisms range from niche scheme insurance for Healthcare professionals to expert insurance for commercial motor vehicles and professional broker-to-broker insurance services. We also have a wide range of personal insurance services that cover homeowners from standard houses through to thatch & listed character properties and high value homes. The Lloyd & Whyte Group is split into five different client divisions which include multiple companies and brands.
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK's number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group's size.
We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.
* Directory of Social Change's UK Guides to Company Giving