Accounts Assistant

**Job title: Accounts Assistant - Financial Accounting and Reporting - Part-time, Job-Share, Full-time**

**Location**:Isle of Man

**The opportunity**:
A unique opportunity has arisen for a graduate to join a team of highly skilled accountants. You will gain diverse experience, primarily within the Financial Reporting Team, assisting in the preparation of the management accounts, statutory accounts and regulatory returns. As our Team collates and analyses figures from across various group companies, it allows the individual to gain business wide knowledge as well as technical experience in accounting for insurance and non insurance companies. In addition, we provide support to other areas of finance and business projects as needed.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Assist in the preparation of monthly/quarterly management accounts for a number of Group Companies.
- Assist in the preparation of annual statutory accounts.
- Assist in the completion of monthly IFRS information for submission to Group Head Office.
- Lend SAP support for our Isle of Man based users.
- More widely support the finance department, including current projects.
- Preparing, reviewing and investigating variances on reconciliations.

**Your skills and experience**:

- You will have completed A Levels, and a degree would be desirable but not essential.
- Experience within a finance role is desirable but not essential.
- Strong numeracy skills.
- Strong PC skills, to intermediate level in MS Office, MS Excel and preferably SAP is desirable but not essential.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- An ability to prioritise tasks and deliver results within tight deadlines.
- An ability to work independently and as part of a team.

**The reward**:
In return we are offering an attractive salary plus a generous benefits package including bonus and defined contribution pension scheme. We are committed to continuous improvement and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. As well as this we have state-of
- the
- art headquarters where we have free on-site car parking.

**Who we are**:
Headquartered in the Isle of Man, Zurich International manages over $10bn of funds across 8 global locations for both retail and corporate customers. Employing over 500 employees, with just under 300 based on the Isle of Man, Zurich International provides life and savings products to markets in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Established in 1982, the company has built a strong reputation as a reliable, dependable yet innovative insurer and regularly receives recognition and awards from the industry.

**Further information**:
At Zurich we are proud of our culture. We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We want you to bring your whole self to work we have a diverse mix of customers and we want our employee base to reflect that.

Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are creating an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of protected characteristics.

We are committed to continuous improvement and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. Zurich is passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity through the Zurich Community Trust.

We have won numerous awards for our work on Diversity and Inclusion. We are also proud to be nominated for the 2020 Insurance Times award for Diversity and Inclusion. You can read about our awards on our website.

**So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.