Senior Financial Accountant

2 weeks ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom WTW Full time

**The Role**

The WTW Financial Controllership group operates across a number of teams and locations, and whilst this role will include activities and responsibilities spanning this wider group, the main focus will be the financial accounting and statutory and regulatoryreporting activities of Willis Limited, WTW’s principal UK FCA regulated insurance intermediary.

Within the Controllership Team your accountabilities will include:

- Responsibilities over the accounting and reconciliation activities for key parts of the Willis Limited monthly close cycle;
- Oversight and review of journal and reconciliation activities performed by junior colleagues and or our offshore accounting partners;
- Act as a key point of contact with both internal and external audit teams in the delivery of statutory and SOX audit activities
- Coordination and review of SOX control and external audit evidence;
- Understanding and completion of quarterly and ad-hoc regulatory returns and requests;
- Engagement on certain FCA CASS5 client money activities, including client money calculation reconciliation preparation and liquidity and cashflow analysis;
- Assist in the reconciliation and interrogation of the insurance broking ledger;
- Assist in the preparation of board reporting, including analysis of legal entity level budging and management reporting
- Supporting the wider WTW Financial Controllership function in identify, designing and implementing control and process improvements, including through new technology and automation; and,
- In addition to the regular month-end activity, there will be a significant volume of ad-hoc project work, with the opportunity to work with other areas of the WTW Group Finance organisation.

**The Requirements**
- Qualified accountant, ACA or ACCA, with a strong technical accounting and a minimum of two years post -qualified experience
- Strong academics, with excellent A level (or equivalent) grade, with degree level an advantage
- have had experience working in or auditing large or complex environments
- have had experience in the preparation, audit or review of statutory accounts (FRS101 or FRS102)
- have had experience of control and process design, testing and reporting;
- have an ability to deal with large and/or complex volumes of data;
- have the drive to get tasks done by immovable deadlines whilst not losing attention to detail;
- have experience of improving processes and successfully implementing change;
- be able to solve problems and explain solutions to management logically and clearly;
- be able to work alone and as part of a team
- have the ability to deal with senior personnel and non-accounting personnel; and
- be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Knowledge of other systems and data manipulation tools an advantage

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

**At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selvesto work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity

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