Description
Technical Accountant/Insurance
Location Hove/London
Day Rate £600 - £800 per day
Overview
Our Client a leading financial services organisation a strong Technical Accountant with an understanding SaaS finance modules and a background in financial reporting
The role will be responsible for key accounting work streams and include undertaking detailed analysis of processes
Defining the reporting structure and technical requirements definition
This will also include identifying requirements for process re-engineering including progressing them through to execution
The ideal candidate will have experience of Insurance accounting/SaaS finance modules and general ledger projects
Skills, knowledge and expertise:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
- 3+ years of experience in the insurance industry
- SaaS Finance Modules
- Financial Reporting
- Deep understanding of analytical data techniques and related visualization
- Excellent communication skills and experience in report writing and MI
- This role sits between the Finance and Technical reporting team being able to communicate and influence in both camps is essential
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including excel, word and PowerPoint.
- Experience of working on a core accounting system and performing ledger postings and reconciliations.
- Experience of using, extracting and reporting data from accounting and other office based administration systems.
Experience/Knowledge/Qualifications;
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA)
- Experience of preparing statutory financial accounts preferred
- Familiar with large ERP systems
- Confident individual with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent attention to detail and reporting MI skills
- Self-motivated and proactive approach to work; experience of working in a dynamic, fast paced environment with tight deadlines
Additionally you will be fully versed in the principles and concepts of analysis including requirements elicitation, business process modelling and stakeholder management.
You will be comfortable to critically review and evaluate proposals to initiate change activity, identifying fit with an agreed divisional Roadmap and challenging with Sponsors where conflicts and contention exist so that the integrity of the Roadmap is maintained.
You will work with key business stakeholders within the Group Finance and Group Function divisions to define strategies, draw up feasibility studies, and requirements specifications, produce high-level and detailed business models and implement solutions, which will have a measurable impact on the profitability and effectiveness of the divisions.
Lead requirements elicitation processes on projects, including activities and deliverables for defining the business opportunity/problem, planning and executing business analysis, eliciting requirements from stakeholders and requirements documentation.
Please submit a CV no more than four pages long if the above matches your skill set, together with current availability. As we anticipate a high volume of responses, if you have not heard back from us in five working days please assume there were more suitable candidates and your application was unsuccessful