Technical Accountant

Salary: £36,000 – £42,000 per year

Technical Accountant role

Liverpool

Hybrid – 1-2 days in the office

£30,000 – £35,000

Technical Accountant

The main focus of the Technical Accountant Role:

To ensure the effective accounting of technical transactions for the International Distribution Companies and support the Accounting and Reporting team to ensure that financial reporting to 3rd party and group companies is timely and accurate.

To support the Finance ambition to become an automated process led department, through process standardisation, application of new technology and leveraging digitisation and automation opportunities.

Responsibilities

Monthly closing of technical systems and Bank reconciliation

Quarterly Audit File production, including coordination, ensuring all schedules are completed on time and referenced to supporting material

Work closely with the Financial Reporting team

Participate in Finance and group wide projects (e.g. Set-up of a new business stream)

Improve and automate existing processes and then integrate them efficiently with the current reporting process

Support other areas of the team where appropriate and with any other ad-hoc task as assigned

Help drive forward good Conduct for the business to deliver the best outcomes for customers/policyholders.

Observing proper standards of market conduct at all times

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

Experience and skills required

Technical background with previous technical accounting and/or Credit Control knowledge

Accounting Qualification (part-qualified/newly qualified)

Advanced knowledge of Excel

Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a team

Analytical, critical thinker with a problem solving attitude

Good communication skills and confident speaking to technical and business stakeholders

Ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance.

Analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and weigh up alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.

Adapt and work effectively in different situations and to carry out a variety of tasks.

MS Excel (advanced)

MS Power BI (basic) & Access (basic)

SAP Finance Modules

Websure and Xipe

Lloyd’s Reporting Tool

Hybrid role based in Liverpool