Senior Financial Accountant

3 weeks ago

London, UK, United Kingdom QBE Insurance Full time
Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Senior Financial Accountant

London or Leed

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

The opportunity

QBE are excited to have an opportunity for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Insurance Accounting function within the Corporate Reporting team on a 12-month fixed term contract. The Corporate Reporting team are responsible for ensuring the integrity of the financial results and providing the business narrative over the balance sheet and P&L.

Your new role

As a Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a key and leading role in accounting and reporting activities, ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data and liaising with both external and internal customers to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
  • Manage a broad range of accounting activities, working in conjunction with Finance Operations and our Centres of Excellence (CoE), enabling delivery of consolidated results to Group and other key stakeholders
  • Manage and drive the refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency and control across accounting and balance sheet substantiation activities
  • Support key stakeholders through the delivery of meaningful variance and trend analysis while working in conjunction with our Finance Operations and Business Partnering teams
  • Oversight of and mentor staff involved in preparation and posting of general ledger journal entries
  • Represent Corporate Reporting and input into projects / change programmes, impacting accounting activities, as necessary
  • Maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including our auditors, to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations
  • Lead colleagues, in a matrix fashion, working on accounting activities, at our offshore shared services centre
  • Work with Senior Finance Managers to set the tone and create a culture of continuous improvement within accounting activities in Finance Operations
  • Work with our Centres of Excellence and external auditors in producing the statutory financial statements for all UK and Ireland based entities
About you
  • Be a qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with minimum 2+ years PQE"or have relevant years of working experience
  • Moving from a manager or experienced senior accounting role in practice or industry
  • Have an in depth understanding of best-practice accounting (experience in an insurance environment is preferred but not essential)
  • Be confident building controls into processes"and implementing process improvement
  • Have experience mentoring and developing others
  • Have a strong understanding of excel
  • Have experience working with accounting software (knowledge of tools such as Oracle Fusion and Hyperion Financial Management is preferred but not essential)
Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that's why we have created At My Best". It's our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn't fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It's in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference. 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. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. 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.

Some of the award's QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;

Employer of the Year 2022 Winner - Insurance Insider

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.

About QBE

QBE is an international insurer and reinsurer, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney. We employ more than 11,000 people, with a local presence in 27 countries.

We are driven by our purpose of enabling a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We've been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty. Today, we're still giving our customers confidence to explore, innovate and take measured risks, secure in the knowledge they're covered by a strong insurer.

We work hard to build a culture that best supports our people, and not only represents our business, but the world around us.

As a business insurance specialist, QBE European Operations offers a range of insurance products from the standard suite of property, casualty and motor to the specialist financial lines, marine and energy. All are tailored to the individual needs of our small, medium and large customer base.

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

What next?

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 NOW 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.

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

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