Financial Reporting Accountant - Hybrid Dublin

Phoenix Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 53,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Lunch Allowance

Pension (10% non-contributory, matched

Funded Industry Qualifications

Job summary

Standard Life in Dublin is seeking a Financial Accountant to join the Financial Reporting team, delivering high-quality monthly MI and quarterly statutory and regulatory reporting. You will review results, identify key drivers and variances, and collaborate with internal teams and outsourced providers to ensure accurate and compliant reporting.

The role focuses on maintaining strong governance, supporting finance projects, and driving continuous improvement across the function.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong technical grounding.
• Post‑qualification experience: ideally 2+ years in financial reporting, audit, insurance or another regulated environment.
• Analytical capability: ability to interpret complex data, identify anomalies and articulate the underlying drivers of financial outcomes.
• Professional curiosity: a proactive approach to understanding results, investigating issues and seeking clarity.
• Strong communication skills: able to present complex information in a clear, concise and structured manner to both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Stakeholder engagement: comfortable working with multiple teams, including outsourced providers, and influencing outcomes through collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Financial reporting delivery: responsible for preparation, review and analysis of statutory and regulatory financial results, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and aligned with internal and external requirements.
• Insight and communication: provide clear, well‑structured written and verbal explanations of financial performance, highlighting key drivers, trends and variances for senior stakeholders.
• Control and governance oversight: maintain a strong control environment across outsourced and internal processes, ensuring risks are identified, monitored and appropriately addressed.
• Continuous improvement: evaluate existing reporting and control processes, propose enhancements, and support the implementation of more efficient and effective ways of working.
• Audit support: coordinate internal and external audit activities, ensuring high‑quality documentation, timely responses and strong audit outcomes.
• Cross‑team collaboration: work closely with teams across the wider group, including outsourced accounting providers, to ensure consistency, alignment and effective information flow.
• Project involvement: support and represent the reporting team on finance and business projects, shaping requirements, assessing impacts and ensuring business readiness for process or system changes.
• Knowledge sharing: support training and capability development within the finance team to embed new processes, systems and best practices.

Skills

Financial reporting

Audit

Regulated environment

Analytical ability

Stakeholder engagement

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

Standard Life in Dublin is seeking a Financial Accountant to join the Financial Reporting team, delivering high-quality monthly MI and quarterly statutory and regulatory reporting. You will review results, identify key drivers and variances, and collaborate with internal teams and outsourced providers to ensure accurate and compliant reporting.

The role focuses on maintaining strong governance, supporting finance projects, and driving continuous improvement across the function.