Finance Reporting Specialist

**Company description**:
**Job Title: Finance Reporting Specialist**

**Location: Basingstoke (flexible working)**

**Contract: Full Time - Permanent**

**Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum DOE + benefits**

Solution bringers. Day makers. Extra milers. We are the AA. And we keep everyone’s show on the road. There for our members wherever and whenever they need us, we’re always ready for anything. That’s why, for over 100 years, we’ve continued to evolve and adapt. Today, as the nation’s number one motoring organisation, we offer a range of excellent products and services to millions of customers. As a Financial Reporting Specialist, you’ll join our exciting journey to fulfil our future vision. We aim to support the UK’s 17m drivers and to facilitate their driving lives through data and innovation; to succeed with this, we require a step-change in pace and thinking. Join us as we transform and deliver on this ambitious vision.

**This is the job**:
As Finance Reporting Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting aspects of financial control for the Insurance Division. This includes management accounting, financial reporting, financial control and technical accounting support, across the Insurance Finance teams. You will ensure governance, control and accountability for all numbers produced and will maintain the accuracy and integrity of the insurance accounts.

This role will also be supporting system controls; establishing and ensuring control on existing systems (ICE & TIARA), but also supporting the implementation of controls in new systems.

**What will I be doing?**:

- Supporting the provision of information to enable the completion of month end for the Insurance Division, including: ensuring accuracy and integrity of month end numbers and KPI’s, compliance with all accounting requirements and reporting process and achieving all deadlines
- Supporting the internal financial control framework requirements for the Insurance division
- Work closely with the commercial Insurance finance teams & the business to gain a sound understanding of the business and ensure reporting of performance can therefore be challenged, insightful and add value.
- Preparing consistent month end reports with analysis and insightful commentary on the results (financial, KPI, balance sheet and cashflow). Ensuring the validity, accuracy and integrity of the monthly accounts and processes
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that any differences/issues are identified, reported and resolved
- Preparing financial due diligence reporting and ensuring due diligence principles are adhered to
- Supporting the forecast, budget and five-year plan submissions for the business and updating the planning and consolidation system
- Ensuring the integrity of the financial records and procedures necessary to ensure the consistency, accuracy and reliability of financial results
- Producing Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMAR) for the FCA
- Challenge, understand, document and where possible improve all financial processes undertaken within the financial control/ reporting team
- Ensure correct accounting governance and integrity of all controls and recognition processes are adhered to (e.g. revenue recognition, exceptional policies etc)
- Proactively identify continual processes improvements, including automating and aligning reporting
- Liaising with external professional advisors and supporting interim and year-end audit work

**What do I need?**:
**Capability, Knowledge and Experience**:

- Finance accountancy experience with a strong reporting background
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience
- Highly numerate with good communication skills, both verbal and written with strong report writing skills
- Experience of working with systems along with good IT skills.
- Excellent and proven stakeholder engagement
- Advanced Excel skill

**Education and Qualifications**:

- part-qualified accountant

**Personal Characteristics**:

- Initiative to find solutions and improve ways of working
- Able to work unsupervised and outside defined scope of the role
- Highly accurate, thorough and reliable
- Self-motivated, highly organised and methodical with attention to detail.
- Commercially minded
- Great interpersonal skills
- Enthusiastic and ambitious
- Able to meet tight deadlines and deal with the prioritisation of conflicting requirements

**Additional Information**:
As a valued member of our team, you’ll have access to a range of fully supported development programmes, designed to help you progress in your career with us. Whether you’re looking to grow in your current role, or learn new skills and take on greater responsibilities, we can help you build the career you’re looking for here.

We’re always looking to recognise and reward our employees for the work they do. Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll have access to, as part of our team:

- Discounted home and motor