Junior Accountant

**Responsibilities**Junior Accountant**Are you a part-qualified or experienced accountant, curious about a role in the pensions industry?
Are you interested in managing a portfolio of pension scheme accounts, for a range of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution schemes from small schemes in wind up to multi-billion pound schemes with complex investment arrangements?
If this sounds like you, Aon have a vacancy for a Junior Accountant within our busy Birmingham office, working as a part of our expert Pensions Accounts team. This is a hybrid role working both virtually and from the office.
**Aon is in the business of better decisions**At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
**What the day will look like**:

- You will be working with colleagues to prepare Trustee Reports and Financial Documents, for your own portfolio of pension scheme clients, that are FRS102 and SORP compliant in an accurate manner and within timescales.
- You will have regular liaison with wider Aon specialist teams, client relationship managers and external auditors.
- You will attend regular meetings with collaborators to drive forward progress, identify issues and agree and deliver insightful and pragmatic solutions to deliver great outcomes for clients.
- You’ll work closely with your UK accounts team colleagues as well as offshore accounts teams, preparing as well as reviewing financial documents and organising and overseeing audits, ensuring enquiries are responded to in a timely manner.
- You will be involved in a wide variety of different pension scheme clients, as you grow your career with us, from small wind ups to large multi-billion pound hybrid schemes with complex investment strategies, bringing your expertise to deliver great resultsand first class service to our clients.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with teams across Aon’s various locations will be key, as well as growing Aon’s great reputation with third party providers;
**How this opportunity is different**Aon has a great range of fantastic clients, from small executive and wind up schemes to large multi-billion pound schemes of PLC companies, for whom Aon are delivering thoughtful and innovative ideas and products.
Working within a great team of first class pensions colleagues, this is a great role to grow and develop your pensions and accounting skills. As a leading global brand in the Pensions Administration business, Aon offer an excellent career progression with awide range of employee benefits, including study assistance, to support you in your career with us.
**Skills and experience that will lead to success**:

- You will likely be a part qualified or experienced accountant with experience of statutory accounts production, able to accurately and thoughtfully produce accounts which meet regulatory and SORP requirements. Pensions experience is helpful but not essential
- what is important is the ability to produce great work.
- You will be a great teammate, able to build strong relationships with client teams, client representatives, auditors, investment managers and other providers, maintaining Aon’s great reputation in Pensions Administration.
- You will have the drive to learn how to produce great pension scheme accounts to meet client needs, and to build a high level of technical knowledge and behavioural standards, especially of regulatory and statutory requirements.
- You will have great communication and teamwork skills, with the ability and drive to identify and drive forward improvements in processes to deliver great client service.
- You will be able to manage deadlines and still deliver work to a high quality as required by your manager and client deadlines, to support the wider Aon business.
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