Accountant

We're currently recruiting for an Accountant to join our Expense Analysis Team to provide professional accountancy and / or finance analysis service across all business processes to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory, reputational and commercial requirements.

Job Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 29 March 2023
Salary: Up to £55,000, bonus 16-32%, 38 days holiday (inc Bank Holidays), 10% pension
Location: Telford, Wythall (Flexible)

We have an excellent opportunity to work in a business critical, fast-paced project and gain skills and experience of the brand new IFRS17 accounting standard that went live in January 23. This small IFRS17 Expenses team requires a dynamic individual to join us and support ongoing development of Excel EUCs (End User Computing) and analysis of results vs existing reporting standards. The right candidate will model the Phoenix values in everything they do, and in particular share our passion to deliver quality results in a timely manner.
This is an exceptional opportunity to gain recognition in a large financial services group and gain desirable experience with respect to IFRS17. We support a Hybrid working approach and our team thrive on the Phoenix passion to make this the best place any of us have ever worked. Whilst the role is challenging, it comes with extremely supportive colleagues and management.

Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our colleagues have ever worked.
We are the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business with c.13 million customers and c.£310 billion of assets under administration. As a market leader and FTSE 100 organisation, we understand that our scale and expertise means that we have a key role to play for our customers, colleagues and our communities to help as many people as possible secure a life of possibilities. We are tackling key environmental and social issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050 - but we're not done yet.
We've seen huge growth and change, and this means there is enormous opportunity for our 8,000 colleagues to grow alongside us.

Flexible working
You can expect to work in a hybrid manner with time spent working in the office and at home. We believe that work/life balance offers benefits for customers as well as ensuring that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work. We will discuss flexibility, what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Key Responsibilities
- Complete a range of standard Accountancy and / or analytical functions (including producing financial reports - performance, controls and providing analysis of data, statutory reporting, etc) as required to meet business and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain knowledge and understanding of multiple business processes and different financial reporting bases (as required for role) in order to ensure a comprehensive service provided to all stakeholders.
- Apply appropriate quality assurance controls to all work produced in the team to ensure the accuracy and validity of the Company's financial information.
- To support the successful delivery of designated finance activity throughout the project change cycle. Deliveries include accounting requirements captured, reviewed, appropriate scope, validated against IT designs and implemented into BAU efficiently and effectuively. Appropriate MI to stakeholders.
- Participate in internal discussions and groups as required in order to promote finance interests and work closely with stakeholders across the business
- Maintaining up to date professional knowledge in an environment of fast moving regulatory change.
- Maintaining and applying knowledge of multiple reporting bases and area of expertise.
- Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
- Balancing competing priorities on different pieces of work in challenging timescales, yet ensuring a continually high quality of output.

What We're Looking For
Essential
- Strong experience with analysis of vast data sets
- Advanced Excel Skills
- Certifications - Association Chartered Certified Accountants / Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a complex business environment and work collaboratively across functions
- High degree of initiative, dependability and ability to work with little supervision.
- Great attention to details.
Desirable
- Education - Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent)
- Good PowerPoint Skills
- IFRS17 knowledge is an advantage but not a requirement

Why choose us?
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.
Sound good? If you are ready to help us make Phoenix the best place you've ever worked, we'd love to hear from you.

About Us
Phoenix Group is a member of the FTSE 100 index and is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. We specialise in the acquisition and management of Heritage life insurance and pension funds. We've businesses in the UK, Germany and Ireland and hold a broad range of both Heritage and Open products split across three key business segments: UK Heritage, UK Open and Europe. Our open business manufactures and underwrites new products and policies to support people saving for their future in areas such as workplace pensions and SIPPs, primary under the Standard Life brand. And we market corporate pension trustee services and manufacture products to be sold under other brands. Did you know Phoenix Life manufactures SunLife's market leading Guaranteed Over 50's plan? Find out more about Phoenix Group here.
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