Accountant - Valuation Oversight

As the Asset Valuation Oversight Accountant, you'll support the team to define, implement and execute the primary Valuation Oversight framework for a significant book of illiquid asset investments. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious candidate to join our team and help drive forward and shape the primary Valuation Oversight over illiquid assets.

Job Type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Edinburgh or Wythall office location (Hybrid, Flexible).
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Salary: Upto £55k depending on experience, depending on experience plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Accountant - Valuation Oversight to join our Investments Reporting & Data Team.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We're the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We're a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.
The role
This is an excellent opportunity to join our investments team in finance who have responsibility for executing robust Valuation Oversight controls over the group's invested assets. You will be joining a dynamic team that continues to evolve and develop our Valuation Oversight capabilities to support the strategic growth in illiquid asset capabilities and mandates. In this role you will also have the opportunity to work closely with various internal and external stakeholders and support change within the team.
You'll develop your career and build your profile at Phoenix within our Valuation Oversight function. This will involve playing a key role in the robust review and challenge of both liquid and illiquid asset valuations from external asset managers. You'll have responsibility for preparation of MI and delivering results to senior management through asset valuation governance. In addition to gaining varied and challenging Valuation Oversight expertise you'll have the opportunity to support the team with high profile change activity.
What are we looking for?
You'll love this role if you're a great communicator with strong analytical skills to review and challenge investment valuations.
We're looking for a qualified accountant or applicants possessing a recognised investments qualification with valuation experience of hard to price/illiquid assets and other investments e.g. derivatives. You will have a strong controls mindset and sound understanding of different investment valuation techniques and best practices. Given the ongoing growth in the business we are continuously evolving and developing our oversight processes. We actively encourage colleagues to improve processes and there's real opportunity to shape how we do things!
You'll thrive in this role if you are a confident self-starter who enjoys being part of a dynamic team focussed on delivering robust oversight for the business.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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