Accountant

We're currently recruiting for an Accountant to join our team within Fund Accounting to provide professional accountancy and regulatory advice across all business processes to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory, reputational and commercial requirements.

Job Type: FTC 12 months
Location: Wythall, Birmingham
Salary: £45k-£50k depending on experience, plus 16-32% bonus, 38 days holiday, 10% pension
Closing Date: 30 November 2022

Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical accounting and regulatory reporting support across the team, department and business to contribute to a compliant end to end financial reporting process.
- Monitor the technical accounting and regulatory reporting environment for impacts on Phoenix Life's financial reporting.
- Manage technical issues across the department, liaising with key stakeholders such as Group Finance, Finance Technical Committee and External Auditors to bring issues to a timely and satisfactory conclusion.
- Produce high quality papers providing sound analysis and recommendations fit for all levels of stakeholder/governance
- Produce quality departmental updates to Boards on behalf of Life Finance by co-ordinating the relevant inputs, coordinating suppliers and contributing to the review process.
- Co-ordinate the relevant inputs, suppliers and ensuring compliance with appropriate regulations to oversee Solvency II Narrative Reporting
- Support the technical accounting needs of business change projects and external developments such as IFRS 17.
- Co-ordinate KPI, KRI, risk and control reporting across the Financial Reporting team.
- Apply TCF principles throughout all deliverables.
- Participate in internal discussions and groups as required in order to promote finance interests and work closely with stakeholders across the business

What We're Looking For

Essential
- Part Qualied / Qualified Accountant.
- A track record of producing sound technical accounting analysis.
- Able to communicate confidently, asserting influence at all levels and across functions.
- Ability to communicate with other areas of the business and able to present information requests and financial data in an easily understandable manner.
- Excellent organisational ability.
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
Desirable
- Experience of Life Company Accounting and Reporting.
- Experience of Solvency II Reporting

What We Offer
Bring your 'whole self', skills and dedication to the Phoenix Group and we'll recognise your effort, support your development and help to drive your ambition. We'll ensure you're rewarded for your contribution with a competitive package that includes an attractive pension, annual bonus potential, private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity and adoption leave and a range of other financial services and lifestyle flexible benefits.
Join us and you join a unique organisation. It's not just the 14 million policyholders we serve, or the £300 billion of assets we look after. Or that we're a FTSE 100 company that has been listed as one of the UK's Top Employers for nine years running. It's our talented, inclusive and diverse workforce that makes us a success. We offer flexible working opportunities ensuring we attract and retain the very best of talent. Find out about more about our people's stories, our values and our commitment to diversity
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Key Competencies
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills
- Embrace Change
- Managing Risk
- Working Across Boundaries

We value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone.