Senior Financial Accountant

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💰 Salary: up to £75,000 + bonus & benefits

We are partnering with a well-established and growing reinsurance business seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to join its finance team in a high-profile role with a clear succession plan to a future Financial Controller opportunity.

This role is ideally suited to a Big 4–trained accountant (or equivalent) looking to transition from practice or take the next step within industry, gaining exposure to senior stakeholders, technical accounting, and leadership responsibility within a regulated reinsurance environment.

• Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting under IFRS.
• Support group and statutory accounts, audit processes, and regulatory reporting.
• Ensure compliance with insurance and reinsurance accounting standards.
• Strengthen financial controls, processes, and accounting policies.
• Work closely with senior finance leadership, gaining exposure to Financial Controller-level responsibilities.
• Support ad-hoc projects, process improvements, and system enhancements.
• Act as a key point of contact for auditors and internal stakeholders.

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA), ideally Big 4 trained
• Experience with in reinsurance, insurance, or a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting expertise (IFRS).
• Ambitious, career-driven individual seeking progression to Financial Controller.
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders.

Please quote EJR
52054 when you email your CV to , this is only one of many vacancies we are handling.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been short listed for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Finance and Accounting/Auditing
• Industries:
  Insurance and Financial Services

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