Closing date: 03/05/2024
Career area: Financial Services & Wealth Management
Specialism: Accountancy & Finance
Salary: Up to £45,000 dependent on experience
It's an exciting time to work with us here at AXA UK, where we've an opportunity for a General Accountant to join us on a 12 month FTC. You'll assist in ensuring complete and accurate accounting records are maintained on a monthly basis, which enables the provision of financial information and other services for both internal and external customers of the finance function. You'll have the opportunity to develop and interact with a wide network of contacts, at the same time as developing your core technical accounting skills.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, at our office location in Ipswich.
What you'll be doing:
1. Assist in the production of monthly and quarterly reporting packs under various GAAPs (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), analysing the balance sheets and full profit and loss account for several AXA UK companies.
2. Support in the production of annual and quarterly reporting for Solvency II Pillar 3, preparing the solvency II balance sheets and other required reports.
3. Assist in the preparation of annual statutory financial statements for several AXA UK companies.
4. Provide financial analysis and explanatory commentary of actual result performance against prior year, plans, and forecasts to AXA UK and AXA Group.
5. Liaise with other teams such as, Group Tax for preparation of the taxation charges for actual results under UK and IFRS GAAP or Internal Financial Control team to ensure controls are compliant and necessary documentation is accurately maintained.
6. Account for the non-life gross and reinsurance technical accounts under various GAAPs including review of the elements of the result prepared by AXA Global Business Services based in India.
7. Produce ad hoc financial information, interpretation, analysis, and support to customers, thereby enabling an improved understanding of the information provided.
8. Identify and implement improvements to production processes in conjunction with UK IT and the Finance Systems team to increase efficiency.
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate