Pension Insurance Corporation plc

Senior Finance Accountant – FTC, 12 months

Pension Insurance Corporation plc

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Oracle

About the role

  • Delivery of the IFRS17 month-end reporting including the RiskIntegrity process runs
  • Other accounting tasks (transactions, journals, reconciliations, data entry, supporting information, explanations and all other information that may be required in the general ledger and financial records of the Group including P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flows and liaising with Actuaries on the reporting of technical provisions, solvency calculations) to support effective month end close accounting process
  • Responsible for the creation and preparation of standardized templates for integration activities, including updating of the IFRS, Solvency and EBS/BMA trial balances, Insurance and Investment related financial statement disclosures and offline templates for new Group reporting
  • Provide Analysis and insight into the current and new Group results and use the knowledge to help improve understanding across PIC
  • Liaising and keeping up to date with business changes and transactions with other teams within PIC, such as new business, reinsurance, claims management and the like
  • Identifying and developing process improvements
  • Identifying and developing controls and control environment improvements
  • Accounting tasks to support the effective month end closing accounting process across BAU and Group, including consolidation
  • Leading any ad hoc change requests or new requests from the accounting operational perspective, for example new business transactions that will have an impact on GL and other processes
  • Support the wider accounting team and finance team with finance change projects/program
  • Preparing analytical review commentary on significant variances and/or developments on a monthly basis
  • To understand and work within Pension Corporation's guidelines on Treating Customers Fairly

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of accounting processes and controls
  • Proficient knowledge of accounting ledger systems e.g. Oracle
  • Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office package – especially Excel
  • Fundamental knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
  • Good knowledge of PRA reporting requirements
  • Fully Qualified accountant
  • Strong accounting skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to analyse large volumes of data
  • Ability to organize work to meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to work within defined procedures
  • Adaptable, with the ability to switch effectively between multiple tasks and priorities
  • Ability to create and deliver clear and concise written commentary of analytical reviews
  • Proven post-qualification accounting experience
  • Experience in entity and group accounting within financial services (preferred), ideally within insurance industry or similar within a big 4 accounting environment
  • Experience in taking on existing processes and improve/simplify
  • Experience or exposure to IFRS17 tools (preferred) e.g. RiskIntegrity
Benefits
  • Private medical insurance
  • 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Annual, performance-related bonus plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
accounting processesaccounting controlsaccounting ledger systemsInternational Financial Reporting StandardsPRA reporting requirementsanalytical reviewdata analysisfinancial statement disclosuresconsolidationIFRS17 tools
Soft Skills
problem-solvingorganizational skillsadaptabilitycommunicationtime managementprocess improvementteam supportanalytical skillsattention to detailability to meet deadlines
Certifications
Fully Qualified Accountant