Financial Controller
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Permanent
- £120,000 - £130,000 per annum
Job Description:
Full job descriptionFinancial Controller
Drive Strategic Financial Excellence in a Dynamic Insurance Environment
Are you a seasoned financial professional with a passion for leading teams and shaping financial strategies? Join our forward-thinking client as a Financial Controller and play a pivotal role in overseeing complex financial processes, ensuring compliance, and delivering insightful reports that influence key business decisions. This is your opportunity to be at the heart of a collaborative, inclusive culture where your expertise will directly contribute to continued success and growth.
What You’ll Do:
* Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes with precision, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
* Maintain ownership of the general ledger, ensuring complete, supported, and compliant financial records.
* Analyse financial results, providing variance analysis against plans, prior periods, and benchmarks.
* Deliver comprehensive management reports, including close packages, under both FRS 102 and IFRS 17 standards.
* Support regulatory reporting obligations, ensuring alignment with accounting records and entity review.
* Oversee statutory financial statement production and liaise with auditors to ensure audit readiness and smooth completion.
* Act as a key point of contact for internal and external audits, resolving queries efficiently.
* Lead, develop, and motivate your team, fostering a high-performance environment built on technical expertise and quality outputs.
* Enhance the financial control environment through governance, control remediation, and process improvements.
* Collaborate across departments to implement process efficiencies and support ongoing finance transformation initiatives.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
* Significant experience within the UK insurance or reinsurance sector
* Strong expertise in FRS 102 and IFRS 17 accounting standards
* Proven ability in managing financial reporting, regulatory submissions, and governance processes
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and communicate insights clearly
* Strong stakeholder management capabilities and experience collaborating across functions
* Demonstrated leadership in coaching and developing finance teams
* Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with finance systems
* Willingness to engage in continuous process improvement and cross-functional collaboration
Ready to take your career to the next level and make a tangible impact in a thriving organization? We’re excited to hear from talented professionals eager to bring their expertise to this vital role.
Drive Strategic Financial Excellence in a Dynamic Insurance Environment
Are you a seasoned financial professional with a passion for leading teams and shaping financial strategies? Join our forward-thinking client as a Financial Controller and play a pivotal role in overseeing complex financial processes, ensuring compliance, and delivering insightful reports that influence key business decisions. This is your opportunity to be at the heart of a collaborative, inclusive culture where your expertise will directly contribute to continued success and growth.
What You’ll Do:
* Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes with precision, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
* Maintain ownership of the general ledger, ensuring complete, supported, and compliant financial records.
* Analyse financial results, providing variance analysis against plans, prior periods, and benchmarks.
* Deliver comprehensive management reports, including close packages, under both FRS 102 and IFRS 17 standards.
* Support regulatory reporting obligations, ensuring alignment with accounting records and entity review.
* Oversee statutory financial statement production and liaise with auditors to ensure audit readiness and smooth completion.
* Act as a key point of contact for internal and external audits, resolving queries efficiently.
* Lead, develop, and motivate your team, fostering a high-performance environment built on technical expertise and quality outputs.
* Enhance the financial control environment through governance, control remediation, and process improvements.
* Collaborate across departments to implement process efficiencies and support ongoing finance transformation initiatives.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
* Significant experience within the UK insurance or reinsurance sector
* Strong expertise in FRS 102 and IFRS 17 accounting standards
* Proven ability in managing financial reporting, regulatory submissions, and governance processes
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and communicate insights clearly
* Strong stakeholder management capabilities and experience collaborating across functions
* Demonstrated leadership in coaching and developing finance teams
* Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with finance systems
* Willingness to engage in continuous process improvement and cross-functional collaboration
Ready to take your career to the next level and make a tangible impact in a thriving organization? We’re excited to hear from talented professionals eager to bring their expertise to this vital role.
Job number 4105803
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Harrison Holgate
Harrison Holgate recognise that few insurance recruitment companies understand the technicalities of the insurance market and fewer still have the ski...