Senior Accountant

Senior Management Accountant

Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days a week in office)

Salary: £65000

Type: Permanent

An established insurance organisation is looking to appoint a Senior Management Accountant to join its finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced management accountant to take ownership of financial reporting, expense analysis, budgeting and forecasting within a complex finance environment, while supporting continuous improvement across finance processes.

The role offers a broad remit, combining management reporting, financial control and business partnering, with the opportunity to mentor junior members of the team and contribute to finance transformation initiatives.

• Produce accurate and timely monthly management accounts and financial reports.
• Lead the monthly expense reporting process, including detailed expense analysis, variance analysis and cost allocation.
• Prepare budgets, forecasts and financial plans, providing insight into business performance and expenditure.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring balances are fully understood, supported and accurately reported.
• Support the monthly and quarterly financial close process, ensuring reporting deadlines are achieved.
• Maintain the general ledger and complete bank reconciliations.
• Prepare information for group reporting in line with reporting timetables.
• Assist with statutory and regulatory reporting where required.
• Support the finance controls framework by maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring compliance with internal policies.
• Take ownership of finance data quality, identifying opportunities to improve reporting processes and system integrity.
• Mentor and support junior members of the finance team, providing guidance on journals and day-to-day accounting activities.
• Work closely with colleagues across different finance functions to deliver accurate and reliable reporting.
• Support ad hoc finance projects and continuous process improvement initiatives.

You'll be an experienced finance professional with strong management accounting skills and the confidence to work with large volumes of financial data.

You'll ideally have:

• Experience producing monthly management accounts.
• Strong experience in expense analysis, budgeting, forecasting and reconciliations.
• A solid understanding of balance sheet accounting and financial controls.
• Confidence investigating and explaining financial balances.
• Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP functions.
• Experience using ERP or finance systems such as SAP or similar.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
• The ability to prioritise workloads and meet reporting deadlines.
• Previous insurance experience, or a good understanding of insurance finance, would be highly desirable.
• Experience supporting data quality, financial reporting and process improvements.
• The confidence to mentor and support junior members of the finance team.

• Hybrid working.
• Opportunity to join a collaborative finance function.
• Broad management accounting role with significant exposure to reporting, planning and finance projects.
• Opportunity to mentor junior team members and contribute to process improvements.
• Long-term career development within a well-established financial services organisation.