About the role

  • Senior Financial Reporting Accountant supporting external IFRS reporting for Pension Insurance Corporation's integration with Athora. Collaborating within the Finance business teams to enhance reporting efficiencies and accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Support production of all the external IFRS reporting produced by the Finance function including the Annual Report and Accounts for the Group and its UK subsidiaries; and the half year published Investor Report for the Group
  • New Group reporting requirements to the Athora Group
  • Work closely with members of the Finance business teams to assist with BAU and project work throughout the phase of the project
  • Shape the way the PIC Group reporting to Athora and help assist on enhanced efficiencies
  • Ensure the accuracy of templates and supporting overall external IFRS reporting for both PIC and PICG’s financial reporting
  • Ownership and delivery of testing and reporting tasks, including performing UAT related tasks, preparing change requests and answering queries
  • Support the testing and dry run of the Athora integration and work closely with Change Accounting team as well as external project teams
  • Prepare and support analytical review commentary for assigned deliverables
  • Provide support on ad‑hoc tasks and queries, contributing to team‑wide projects and initiatives as needed
  • Assist in the timely preparation and delivery of disclosures for the financial statements and accompanying notes

Requirements

  • Proven post qualification financial reporting experience
  • Experience in entity and group reporting within financial services (preferred), ideally within insurance industry or similar within a Big 4 accounting environment
  • Working knowledge of IFRS 17 and its implications for insurance reporting
  • Ability to influence key senior stakeholders and to analyse complex problems and propose solutions
  • Ability to work under pressure towards tight deadlines and to prioritise and distinguish what really matters amongst a large quantity of information and make judgement calls
  • Ability to create and deliver clear and concise written reports and to take existing processes and improve/ simplify
  • Strong communication and influencing skills and ability to drive change and contribute to ongoing projects and initiatives
  • Open and actively seeks to discuss issues and share information
  • Detailed knowledge of the insurance industry and the relevant reporting metrics such as IFRS, Solvency II
  • Experience gained from other reporting roles
  • Fundamental knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office package, especially Excel
  • A good understanding of IFRS 17 and its application to insurance companies
  • Experience of Oracle Fusion, Oracle FCCS and Oracle Narrative tool
  • Experience of using the SmartView Excel add-in

Benefits

  • private medical insurance
  • 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
  • competitive base salary
  • opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan

Job title

Senior Financial Reporting Accountant

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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