Accountant in Training

2 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom QBE Insurance Full time

Time Type:
Full time

Financial Accountant


We are excited to announce that we are recruiting a Part-Qualified Financial Accountant to join our Balance Sheet and Control team within the Finance Operations department.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is part way through their studies, or is looking to start their studies and has relevant work experience, and is looking to launch their career further within the world of finance.


As a Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in accounting, balance sheet and control activities, supporting the team in ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data and liaising with internal stakeholders to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence.

Supporting the team in a broad range of operational accounting activities, including preparation of journals, preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and analysing data
Investigating unreconciled items to identify issues within data sets and look to resolve or escalate these issues
Building relationships with internal stakeholders, including colleagues in our offshore shared service centre, to ensure delivery meets stakeholder expectation
Gaining an understanding of the internal control environment and identifying and escalating risk areas
A university graduate with 2+ years work experience, keen to progress a career within finance and start/continue study towards a professional accounting qualification (funded by QBE)
A proactive individual that will seek out areas to support the wider Finance team
Someone able to demonstrate and build strong skills in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and keen to learn more around data analysis
A competitive salary + bonus
~30 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
~ Generous pension contribution
~ Hybrid working (with the aim of 2+ days office-based per week)
~ Flexible working (with opportunities to flex hours)
~ Opportunities to travel to London for cross-team collaboration
~ That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. 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. 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 (

5-star Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DEI) awards, 2023 Winner - Insurance Business Canada

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.


At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future.

Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable and impactful solutions.

For further information regarding QBE's sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative 'Premiums4Good', please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report ( Link ).


We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.


We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.


We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

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


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 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.


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