Senior Financial Reporting Accountant

Pension Insurance Corporation plc

. Support both BAU and project work within the Finance workstream of the Athora integration project .

Posted 4/27/2026contractLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support both BAU and project work within the Finance workstream of the Athora integration project
Support production of all the regulatory reporting produced by the Finance function including:
- The quarterly and annual Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRTs) for the regulated and group entities;
- The Solvency and Financial Condition Reports (SFCRs);
- New group reporting requirements to the Athora Group; and
- Liquidity reporting
The role holder will have responsibility for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of regulatory deliverables and supporting regulatory reporting for both PIC and PICG
Work closely with members of the Finance business teams to support the Athora integration project and shape PIC’s ongoing reporting to Athora
Support the testing and dry run of the Athora integration and work closely with Change Accounting team as well as external project teams
Drafting of the 2026 SFCRs, including testing and preparation of the Workiva narrative reporting system
Analysis of the latest regulatory changes to the SUK framework, including updating of existing methodology documents and models
Testing of the Tagetik reporting system ensuring preparedness for Q4 and annual reporting
Review and analysis of quarterly QRTs
Support the timely preparation and delivery of reporting templates to Athora.
Provide support on ad hoc tasks, answering queries, contributing to team wide projects and initiatives as needed

Requirements

What you’ll need

**Experience:**
- Proven post qualification financial reporting experience
- Experience in entity and group reporting within financial services (preferred), ideally within insurance industry or similar within a big 4 accounting environment
- Working knowledge of Solvency UK and its implications for life insurance reporting
- Experience of working on projects and meeting agreed timetables and deadlines
**Knowledge:**
- Detailed knowledge of the Life Insurance industry and the relevant reporting metrics such as IFRS, Solvency II
- Experience gained from other reporting roles.
- Fundamental knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office package – especially Excel
- A good understanding of Solvency UK (SUK) regulatory accounting and reporting requirements and their application to Life insurance companies
- Knowledge of Tagetik and Workiva
**Skills:**
- Ability to influence key senior stakeholders and to analyse complex problems and propose solutions
- Ability to work under pressure towards tight deadlines and to prioritise and distinguish what really matters amongst a large quantity of information and make judgement calls
- Ability to create and deliver clear and concise written reports and to take existing processes and improve/ simplify
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Open and actively seek to discuss issues and share information
- Ability to drive change and contribute to ongoing projects and initiatives

Benefits

Comp & perks

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial reportingregulatory reportingSolvency IIInternational Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)Solvency UK (SUK)entity reportinggroup reportingreporting metricsdata analysisproject management

Soft Skills

influencing stakeholdersproblem analysistime managementcommunicationreport writingprocess improvementteam collaborationadaptabilitycritical thinkinginitiative