HFG are currently partnering with an exciting London Market insurer in search for their next Corporate Accountant a significant change within their group structure. 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.