Financial Accountant

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Financial Accountant

The opportunity

We are excited to announce that we are recruiting a Part-Qualified Financial Accountant to join our Balance Sheet and Control team within the Finance Operations department. This is a great opportunity for someone who is part way through their studies, or is looking to start their studies and has relevant work experience, and is looking to launch their career further within the world of finance.

Your new role

As a Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in accounting, balance sheet and control activities, supporting the team in ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data and liaising with internal stakeholders to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence.

Your primary responsibilities will include:  

• Supporting the team in a broad range of operational accounting activities, including preparation of journals, preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and analysing data
• Investigating unreconciled items to identify issues within data sets and look to resolve or escalate these issues
• Challenging existing processes and identifying improvements and enhancements
• Building relationships with internal stakeholders, including colleagues in our offshore shared service centre, to ensure delivery meets stakeholder expectation
• Gaining an understanding of the internal control environment and identifying and escalating risk areas

About you

• A university graduate with 2+ years work experience, keen to progress a career within finance and start/continue study towards a professional accounting qualification (funded by QBE)
• A proactive individual that will seek out areas to support the wider Finance team
• An individual that has great attention to detail and is keen to suggest improvements and challenge the status quo to benefit the department
• Someone able to demonstrate and build strong skills in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and keen to learn more around data analysis
• An organised individual able to manage time effectively

What you’ll get in return

• A competitive salary + bonus
• 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Generous pension contribution
• Hybrid working (with the aim of 2+ days office-based per week)
• Flexible working (with opportunities to flex hours)
• Internal secondment opportunities and a focus on personal development
• Opportunities to travel to London for cross-team collaboration
• Working with an international team (with key stakeholders in Australia, Philippines, USA, as well as across Europe and the rest of the world)

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it’s not just what we do that matters, it’s how we do it that makes the difference.  In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.

At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://careers/flex-qbe/).

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Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include; 

5-star Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DEI) awards, 2023 Winner - Insurance Business Canada

Employer of the Year 2022Winner – Insurance Insider

British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award 

Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year 

Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response  

Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year 

We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.

We know that diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our customers. 

ESG & Sustainability

At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future.  Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable and impactful solutions. For further information regarding QBE’s sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative ‘Premiums4Good’, please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report (Link).