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Group Accountat

High Finance (UK) Limited T/A HFG
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • HFG is seeking a Group Accountant for a London Market insurer, reporting to the Corporate Financial Controller.
  • The role involves enhancing corporate entity reporting, regulatory compliance, and ensuring accurate corporate accounting.
  • Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in a similar role and be qualified accountants (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
  • A strong understanding of UK GAAP/US GAAP and proficiency in financial processes and controls are essential.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, although the specific amount is not disclosed in the job description.

HFG are currently partnering with an exciting London Market insurer in search for their next Group Accountant. The role will be reporting to the Corporate Financial Controller and will be involved in enhancing the corporate entity reporting including commentary on key movements of results, regulatory reporting to UK and overseas regulators and ensuring corporate accounting is completed accurately. This role offers fantastic opportunity to join a highly ambitious Finance team and obtain a real breadth of experience in a profitable fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Continuous improvement of the quality and efficiency of underlying working files
  • Balance sheet substantiation, including comprehensive reconciliations
  • UK and overseas statutory reporting, including dealing with audit queries
  • Prepare board papers to support the sign-off of the financial statements
  • Ensure complete, accurate and timely broker financial reviews
  • Support due diligence process
  • Assist Corporate Controller in enhancing processes, reporting and documentation.
  • Ensure documentation maintained for key processes and controls
  • Keep up-to-date with changes in new financial reporting standards/disclosures and production of associated accounting judgement papers

The suitable candidate for this role will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with at least 5 years working in a similar role. You will need a good knowledge of UK GAAP/US GAAP, to be comfortable with the fundamentals of financial process and controls and will be adept at various software packages.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.