Senior Life Insurance Financial Controller

Axon Moore; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Job summary

Axon Moore is partnering with a Lancashire-based life insurance and pensions provider to recruit a Financial Controller. You will build and own a finance function, delivering robust statutory, IFRS and GAAP reporting and insights into key drivers and risks.

You will lead the end-to-end reporting process, challenge outputs, and drive improvements to the control environment while working closely with actuarial and accounting teams.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with significant post-qualification experience in life insurance reporting.
• Strong technical knowledge in life insurance valuation and financial reporting.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and explain complex financial information to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead quarterly and annual financial reporting including balance sheet, P&L, and reserves.
• Own end-to-end reporting process with robust documentation and deadlines.
• Review reconciliations and movement analysis; provide challenge and sign-off recommendations.
• Collaborate with Accounting and Actuarial teams to translate model outputs into financial results.
• Explain key movements, changes in assumptions, variances and sensitivities to senior stakeholders.
• Prepare governance papers and disclosures for executive and committee forums.
• Own reporting control environment with validation, review and documentation standards.
• Lead audit activity and respond to regulatory and internal queries.
• Identify opportunities to improve transparency, controls and reduce reporting cycle times.
• Develop and deliver a reporting improvement roadmap.
• Act as SME across financial reporting and improve the wider framework.
• Lead cross-functional projects in a matrix environment.

Skills

Financial reporting

Life insurance knowledge

Stakeholder influence

Audit readiness

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Job description

Axon Moore is partnering with a Lancashire-based life insurance and pensions provider to recruit a Financial Controller. You will build and own a finance function, delivering robust statutory, IFRS and GAAP reporting and insights into key drivers and risks.

You will lead the end-to-end reporting process, challenge outputs, and drive improvements to the control environment while working closely with actuarial and accounting teams.