Project Accountant

2 weeks ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom QBE Insurance Full time
Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Project Accountant

Leeds

Permanent (Hybrid - 1 day in office)

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We are an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

The opportunity

QBE Europe is looking to recruit a Project Accountant to join the growing IT Finance Team. In this role, you'll be required to provide accurate reporting and analysis of all Technology Spend across different portfolios and cost centre owners. You'll be assisting in the control of IT finances through the monthly IT cost centre reviews, to include supporting budget holders and stakeholders through performing and maintaining processes including financial control, reporting, and providing an accurate budget vs. forecast analysis of their spend.

Your new role
  • Maintain the project financial trackers, and help drive the finance conversations and agenda.
  • Responsible for the project accounting of multi-million pound projects.
  • Engage with a wide spectrum of project managers to help them manage project spend within approved limits.
  • Help drive the right governance conversations to include engaging pro-actively with the Transformation Office.
  • Ensure alignment of reporting with internal and external requirements (cost centre managers through to high level mgmt.)
  • Summarising business plans process across projects, including the production of budgets and re-forecasts, to ensure all cost management controls and targets are incorporated.
  • Managing queries in relation to actuals, plan, and expense movements
  • General accounting queries on treatment of Licenses, FAR, Leases, balance sheet management (prepayments, accruals, WIP, Amortization schedules
  • Reconciliation of month end journals and reconciliations prepared by the GSSC.
  • Support the finance manager role, across the various spend areas, to help with financial control
  • Help support monthly CAPEX/OPEX reporting within project financial trackers.
  • Provide ad hoc P&L/Cash financial reporting to both the global finance team and business partners.
  • Challenge individual IT cost centre owners on all aspects of financial management in order to support robust analysis of IT spend.
  • Support senior management in the preparation and analysis of budgets, costs, forecast, and supplier category spend for use in ad hoc projects and initiatives.
  • Monitor benefit management and realization activities for projects.
About you
  • Previous experience in a project accounting role or similar finance role.
  • Advanced Excel experience.
  • Part qualified accountant - ACCA or CIMA
  • Must have good working knowledge of the general ledger.
  • Process mapping experience and reconciliation skills essential.
  • Experience of partnering and communicating with suppliers, finance and IT functions.
  • Experience of providing consolidated project finance reports
  • Ability to produce value you add reports
Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that's why we have created At My Best". It's our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn't fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage.

That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It's in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.

At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.

Some of the award's QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include.

Employer of the Year 2022 Winner - Insurance Insider

British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award

Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year

Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response

Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year

We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women's Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent.

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.

We know that diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our customers.

About QBE

QBE helps businesses build resilience through risk management and insurance.

QBE European Operations is part of QBE Insurance Group, one of the world's leading international insurers and reinsurers and Standard & Poor's A+ rated. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange,

QBE's gross written premium for the year ended 31 December 2021 was US$18.5 billion.

As a business insurance specialist, QBE European Operations offers a range of insurance products from the standard suite of property, casualty, and motor to the specialist financial lines, marine and energy. All are tailored to the individual needs of our small, medium, and large customer base.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website .

What next?

If you have a passion to contribute to QBE's vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to APPLY NOW Simply click the apply" button to submit your CV and other relevant documents, and a member of our friendly Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to discuss your interest further if you meet the requirements of the role.

Please make the Talent Acquisition aware should there be any reasonable adjustments that may need to be made for the interview and the remainder of the recruitment process.

APPLY NOW and let's make it happen"

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

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