Financial Accountant

Pacific Life Re; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global life reinsurer is hiring a Financial Accountant for their Finance Transformation team. This role offers the chance to oversee significant system changes and drive efficiency improvements within a dynamic and growing company. Candidates must have a strong technical background and effective interpersonal skills, contributing actively to a positive work culture. The position also provides extensive employee benefits and supports a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Subsidised Gym Membership

Private Medical Insurance

Season Ticket Loan

Eye Care

Employee Assistance Programme

Group Income Protection

Wellness Benefits

Qualifications

• 1-2 years post qualified experience in an accounting role, preferably in insurance.
• Experience in finance data migration or finance system implementations.
• Good understanding of accounting principles and related controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage finance systems’ data, ensuring consistency and integrity.
• Lead financial transformation initiatives, improving efficiency.
• Create clear project documentation and liaise with implementation partners.

Skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Job Title

Financial Accountant

Job Description

About us

We are a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with our clients around the world to manage their mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk. We also provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity reinsurance products and services to our clients. Today, we are one of the largest and most experienced in the longevity market and are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us. We have a wide range of benefits and regular social activities, including quarterly socials and wellness initiatives.

We have recently launched a back-office transformation programme (Project Unify) which covers all aspects of our back office across Finance, Corporate Actuarial and Operations. The Division Centre Finance Transformation team will play a key role in this programme over the next few years both implementing change across the business and embedding it within the business.

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our Global Finance Transformation team to deliver Finance Transformations to the business within the change control model. The team is responsible for managing and overseeing change to existing finance systems, as well as engaging in areas of longer term transformation, driving standardisation and continuous improvement in finance activities across the organisation globally.

How you'll help move us forward:

Finance Systems Ownership & Change Control

• Serve as a key member of the Finance Transformation team.
• Partner with Finance and Tech teams to implement system upgrades and improvements.
• Ensure consistency across back-office finance operations.
• Troubleshooting and resolving system issues.

Data Oversight & Maintenance

• Manage finance systems’ data, mappings, hierarchy tables.
• Maintain data integrity and governance across global back-office functions.
• Support data validation, transformation, quality assessment, and process documentation.

Enhancement Projects & Change Implementation

• Lead financial transformation initiatives to improve efficiency.
• Oversee testing and production rollout.
• Work closely with local Subject Matter Experts across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
• Liaise with external implementation partners and technology teams
• Create clear, concise, project documentation, incorporating visuals, managing version control, tailoring content for various stakeholders, and capturing business requirements.

We are looking for candidates with a strong technical background who can work autonomously within an agreed framework, while seeking to question and improve the existing processes. As this role interacts with many teams across the Division, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills are a must.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Accountant (1-2 years post qualified experience), preferably with experience in the insurance industry
• Experience of finance data migration or implementations of finance systems
• Experience of SAP or Oracle-based finance systems strongly preferred
• Experience of multi-GAAP reporting environments desired
• Good understanding of accounting principles, underlying process & related controls within the finance function
• Strong independent thinking and problem-solving skills
• Sharp attention to detail in managing financial systems and upholding data accuracy.
• Strong interpersonal/negotiation skills with the ability to build relationships with different functional areas and work effectively within a team environment
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
• Excellent time management skills, with the flexibility and efficiency to collaborate across multiple time zones and global teams

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

• Stakeholder Pension Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Subsidised Gym Membership

• Private Medical Insurance

• Season Ticket Loan

• Eye Care

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Group Income Protection

• Wellness Benefits

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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