Reconciliations Accountant (Part-Time, Job-Share and Full-Time)

Reconciliations Accountant (Part-Time, Job-Share and Full-Time)

Location: Fareham (other locations will be considered but must be within a commutable distance to Fareham)

The opportunity:

A new opportunity has arisen for a Reconciliations Accountant to join the Fin Ops team in Fareham. An interesting and varied role, the key responsibilities are:

• Embed an operational framework within Finance Operations for balance sheet reconciliations ensuring regulatory and group guidelines are adhered to, monitoring targets and feedback mechanism
• Closely monitor and evaluate the quality of reconciliations completion in accordance with the framework
• Report on quality performance to key stakeholders, promoting adherence and improvement
• Provide feedback on process reviews and improvement programs to improve reconciliations
• Investigate and determine root causes to facilitate the improvement program and drive up the quality of the reconciliations benefitting all stakeholders
• Collaborate with Fin Ops operational teams as well as the Continuous Improvement team and/ or Reconciliation automation working group regarding findings, actions and improvements
• Coach and train individuals (onshore and offshore) to improve process quality, promoting root cause analysis and action planning for enhancements
• Understands processes, products, services and systems in order to make educated recommendations for improvements
• Maintain appropriate level of functional and technical expertise. Has ability to analyse in detail to make robust decisions that resolve issues and improve processes when required
• Ensure new processes are rolled out effectively to all impacted stakeholders as well as documenting the procedures
• Takes a proactive, holistic approach to business practices and processes impacted by the change
• Maintain working relationships across business to ensure delivery through key stakeholders, managing dependencies
• Supports the development of high level and detailed project plans, collaborating with cross-functional areas to ensure timelines, resources and deliverables are established and executed upon; addresses the risks and issues and escalates as appropriate

Your skills and experience:

• Qualified accountant with audit experience would be desirable, or equivalent experience
• Preferably experience working with Business Process Outsourcing and Financial Services
• Knowledge of financial services legislation, regulation and accounting policies
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to coach and train others to improve processes
• Ability to understand process steps
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong analytical abilities
• Highly professional
• Enthusiastic, positive attitude
• Highly proactive and driven
• Able to instigate, implement and manage change and hand over new process to process owners / teams
• Application of analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills to help validate the quality review and root cause analysis
• Effective stakeholder management
• Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Effective at prioritising, resourcing and planning

The reward:

As well as a competitive salary we also offer an excellent lifestyle benefits package which includes -

• 12% pension
• 25 days holiday plus an additional 3 volunteering days
• Annual company bonuses
• Contribution towards private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Cover
• Discounted technology offers
• Virtual GP appointments
• Discounted gym membership,
• Free flu jab
• Discounted gadget insurance
• Plus much more!

At Zurich we will consider requests for flexible working on hiring. Many of our employees work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Who we are:

With about 55,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers and employees. If you're interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiatives and contributions - then Zurich could be just the place for you. The success of our business is built on the contributions of our highly talented employees - people who work every day to position us at the forefront of the insurance industry. We therefore look to hire great people and we encourage those people to give their best.

You'll feel the support of being part of a strong and stable company. A long-standing player in the insurance industry, we make every effort to address the career development needs and plans of our employees to ensure their success in the future.

Further information:

At Zurich we are proud of our culture. We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We want you to bring your whole self to work we have a diverse mix of customers and we want our employee base to reflect that.

Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are creating an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of protected characteristics.

With the above in mind we accept applications from everyone regardless of your background, beliefs or culture however we especially welcome applications from women, people from ethnic minorities, people with a disability and people who are LGBT+ as these groups are currently under-represented in our organisation.

We are committed to continuous improvement and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. Zurich is passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity through the Zurich Community Trust.

We have won numerous awards for our work on Diversity and Inclusion. We are also proud to be nominated for the 2020 Insurance Times award for Diversity and Inclusion. You can read about our awards on our website.

So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.