Senior Group Financial & Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Hastings Insurance Services Ltd; Bexhill-on-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking digital insurance provider as a Senior Group Financial & Regulatory Reporting Accountant. In this hybrid role, you'll lead the charge in delivering high-quality external reporting, focusing on IFRS 17. You'll collaborate with a dynamic finance team, ensuring best practices in financial controls and contributing to transformational change. With a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including a flexible working environment and a strong emphasis on mental wellbeing, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the finance sector. If you're passionate about driving change and enhancing financial performance, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Life assurance cover

Income protection

Matched pension contributions

27 days annual leave

Mental wellbeing programme

Discounted health assessments

Cycle to work scheme

Social events throughout the year

Qualifications

• Experience in technical accounting and financial reporting.
• Demonstrable experience in IFRS 17 implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end close process and external reporting.
• Provide IFRS technical accounting advice to stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership and transformation skills

Coaching and mentoring

IFRS 17 technical accounting advisory

Understanding complex commercial arrangements

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

IFRS Standards

Job description

Senior Group Financial & Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Senior Group Financial & Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Location - London or Bexhill - Hybrid once a week

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We're a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we've made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same - building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

The fact you're now reading this job advert means we've tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.

Role Overview

Working in the Group Financial Reporting and technical accounting team, this role includes responsibility for producing and delivering all aspects of external reporting with a focus on IFRS 17. The role has responsibility for acting as a technical accounting expert and adviser on IFRS 17, and effectively operating as a deputy to the GFRM.

Lead the delivery of the month end close process both statutory and management, production of group quarterly results pack and disclosures for submission to parent company, reporting to the group audit committee and writing board papers.

The Senior Group Financial Reporting Accountant will have hands on responsibility in relation to the delivery of transformational change as it pertains to group accounting and reporting and aspects of financial control that support the outputs from the team.

Job details - you'll need to have demonstrable experience in

• Ownership of the day-to-day coordination and management of the external audit across financial reporting team, wider finance function and more broadly the business as a whole
• Provide IFRS technical accounting advice, with particular focus on (but not limited to) IFRS 17 to the accounting operations team, senior management and other stakeholders.
• Co -lead for the production of Loan covenant certification and all aspects of reporting to the Group's lending syndicate at half year and year end
• Ensuring that best practice controls environment exist and maintained in financial and regulatory reporting
• Deliver technical accounting projects including consultation with other teams throughout the group and preparation of technical accounting memos and discussion papers
• Co -lead for the production of climate- related disclosures in compliance with regulatory requirements

Skills we would love you to have

• Leadership and transformation skills with the ability to operate as part of the Group Financial Reporting Manager's leadership team
• Ability to coach/mentor to the group financial reporting accountants
• Experience working within a technical advisory team of one of the Big 4 accountancy practices with particular focus on IFRS 17 technical accounting advisory support
• Experience in technical accounting/accounting policy development team/financial reporting team of a UK publicly listed insurance company, IFRS 17 experience
• Ability to understand complex commercial and financial arrangements quickly and develop accounting solutions that are based on the applicable accounting standard within tight timeframes

The interview process

Our interview process involves the below:

• Recruiter screening call

• 1st stage interview with hiring leader

• 2nd interview with Director - Group Finance

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website Diversity, inclusion, equality and fairness with Hastings Direct | Hastings Direct Careers

Benefits: in addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive...

Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail

Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus

Physical wellbeing - as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen

Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs

There's more! - 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more ....

Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we'll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

At Hastings Direct, we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.

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