Financial Accountant, Reporting Centre of Excellence

QBE; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent international insurer in Leeds is looking for a Financial Accountant to join its Reporting Centre of Excellence. This role involves executing corporate reporting activities, ensuring data accuracy, and supports analytics. Ideal candidates will be part qualified accountants with a passion for efficiency and digital tools. Flexible working options available, reflecting a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Wellbeing initiatives

Diverse workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience in managing reporting activities and data quality checks.
• Ability to support and collaborate with junior colleagues.
• Passion for continuous efficiency improvements.

Responsibilities

• Execute financial reporting activities ensuring accuracy.
• Manage stakeholder relationships for service delivery.
• Support data analytics and reporting requests.

Skills

Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Continuous improvement mindset

Digital analytics passion

Use of reporting tools (HFM, Oracle, Hyperion)

Education

Relevant accounting qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

HFM

Oracle

Hyperion

Alteryx

Job description

• Location: Leeds
• Type: Permanent, full time
• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity

We are excited to announce that due to internal advancement, we have an opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join our Reporting Centre of Excellence team. You will execute Corporate Reporting activities ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data, support ad-hoc data analytics and to liaise with external and internal customers to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence. This will involve using the wide variety of the evolving stack of available reporting and analytical tools.

The Reporting CoE is a team within the QBE EO Finance function with a remit to own and deliver the single version of the financial truth to the groups internal and external reporting functions. The Reporting CoE is striving to deliver best in class financial reporting results in the most efficient and effective manner.

The roles and exposure within the Reporting CoE are very broad with excellent exposure across the finance function and offer an excellent opportunity to get to the heart of the EO divisional numbers.

Your New Role

• Oversee and execute broad range of report production and data manipulation activities, enabling delivery of robust financial results, working in conjunction with Financial Control & Finance Operations functions
• Identify, contribute to and manage the ongoing refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency, automation and control across Corporate Reporting activities
• Collaborate with and support cross training of more junior colleagues, working on reporting activities, at offshore shared services centre
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations
• Oversee and execute controls / checks on data to ensure robust datasets used for reporting
• Oversee and execute input of data entries and adjustments into the relevant systems to deliver group reporting
• Support ad-hoc analytical and reporting requests

About you

In order to thrive in the role of a Financial Accountant here at QBE, we would expect you to have working experience in most of the following areas:

• Part qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent or have relevant years of working experience
• Experience of a continuous improvement environment and a passion to identify and deliver efficiencies with tasks/teams
• Understanding and commitment to quality and control in a fast paced delivery environment
• Digital mindset with a passion for data analytics and reporting
• Knowledge of relevant reporting and analytical tools (eg. HFM) with enthusiasm to embrace new tools and ways of working
• Experience in producing exhibits using financial data
• Experience of Oracle, HFM, Hyperion, Wdesk, Alteryx

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation. We have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website.

QBE Awards

Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;

• AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year
• Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards 2024: QBE rated as a 5-Star Cyber Insurer
• UK IT Industry Awards 2023 Winner: Green Technology Innovation of the Year
• Working Dads Employer Awards 2023 Winner: Parental Policies Award
• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023: QBE rated as a 5-Star Employee

You can view all our awards here

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in. We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent. For more information on our strategy targets please take a look at our Careers Page

Accessibility

Here at QBE, we are promoting an accessible workplace for all, which includes supporting candidates to perform at their best during their recruitment process. If you require any accommodations, please make your Talent Acquisition contact aware.

ESG & Sustainability

At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future. Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce, and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable, and impactful solutions. For further information regarding QBE’s sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative ‘Premiums4Good’, please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report

What next?

If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to apply! Simply click the “apply” button to submit your CV and other relevant documents, and a member of our friendly Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to discuss your interest further if you meet the requirements of the role.

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