Senior Regulatory Accountant; FTC

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Creation Date: 14-Jan-2026

Employment Type: Fixed term contract;
Full time

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The Senior Accountant – Regulatory Reporting is a critical finance role responsible for the end‑to‑end preparation, quality assurance, and timely submission of statutory and regulatory reports for Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE (LMIE SE) and its UK branch.

This role serves as a key technical specialist within the External Reporting team, ensuring compliance with Solvency II requirements and delivering accurate, audit‑ready submissions to the Commissariat Aux Assurances (CAA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and other European regulators. The Senior Accountant acts as a trusted partner to Risk, Actuarial, and Operations, embedding best‑practice controls and driving continuous improvement in reporting policies and processes.

The role holder will support the Finance Target Operating Model (FTOM) transformation, contributing to automation / reconciliation, data quality initiatives, and regulatory change implementation to enhance efficiency and insight across LSM's legal entity reporting landscape.

Finance at Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) is a ~100 FTE function that delivers:

• Business Partnering: Strategic planning, analysis, and performance reporting across Specialty, Commercial, Reinsurance, and support functions.
• Legal Entity Optimization: Structuring and managing LSM's entity platform to support business strategy in a capital and cost‑efficient manner.
• External Reporting: Preparation and submission of statutory, regulatory, tax, and capital reports across a complex legal entity landscape including a Lloyd's syndicate, a European insurance company with a UK branch and multiple service companies and cover holders.
• Group Reporting: Monthly and ad‑hoc reporting to Liberty Mutual's US parent on both pillar and legal entity bases.
• Treasury & Investment Management: Cash, investment, and financial risk management, alongside finance operations support.

The External Reporting team is responsible for coordinating financial close, regulatory submissions (including Solvency II QRTs, SFCR, RSR, and PRA returns), and statutory accounts across LSM's entities. The team operates in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment and is committed to delivering exceptional reporting quality through robust controls, efficient processes, and strong cross‑functional collaboration. The team champions continuous improvement and is actively engaged in transformation initiatives to modernise reporting tools and workflows.

• Prepare and coordinate quarterly and annual Solvency II Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRTs) for LMIE SE and the UK branch, ensuring technical accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to the preparation of the Solvency and Financial Condition Report (SFCR) and Regular Supervisory Report (RSR), including narrative disclosures and quantitative analysis.
• Execute timely filings via regulatory portals (e.g., EIOPA, Bank of England Gateway, CBI); monitor regulator feedback and resolve queries or rejections promptly and professionally.
• Maintain current knowledge of Solvency II / Solvency UK, and any other relevant regulatory frameworks; track taxonomy and reporting requirement changes and assess impacts on processes, systems, and controls.

• Ensure all regulatory submissions are fully audit‑ready by developing processes which include reconciliations, data validations, variance and trend analysis, completeness checks, and formal sign‑offs.
• Respond to internal and external audit queries, regulator requests, and ad‑hoc data challenges with accuracy and professionalism.

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues in Risk, Actuarial, FP&A, Treasury and Accounting Operations to ensure seamless data flows and coordinated delivery.
• Influence and challenge cross‑functional teams to resolve data quality issues, reconciliation issues, and process bottlenecks,…