Senior Financial Accountant

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Opportunity
We are excited to announce that due to internal advancement we are recruiting a Senior Financial Accountant to join our Balance Sheet and Control team within the Financial Operations department. This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to excel their finance career in a forward thinking business.
Your new role
As a Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a key and leading role in accounting, balance sheet and control activities, ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data and liaising with both external and internal customers to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence.
Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Gaining and maintaining an in depth understanding of the balance sheet through reviewing reconciliations and working with teams across finance to understand accounting entries
• Working with teams across finance and data to ensure a robust control environment for data flow and journal entries
• Managing and driving the refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency and control across accounting and balance sheet substantiation activities
• Supporting key stakeholders through the delivery of meaningful variance and trend analysis
• Overseeing and mentoring colleagues in the onshore team and in our offshore shared service centre
• Representing Finance Operations and inputting into projects / change programmes, impacting accounting activities, as necessary
• Maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including our auditors, to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations
• Working with Senior Finance Managers to set the tone and create a culture of continuous improvement within accounting activities in Finance Operations

Your story so far
In order to thrive in the role of a Senior Financial Accountant here at QBE, we would expect you to have experience in most of the following areas:""

• Be a qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 2+ years PQE"or have relevant years of working experience
• Moving from a manager or experienced senior accounting role in practice in practice or industry
• Have an in depth understanding of best-practice accounting (experience in an insurance environment is preferred but not essential)
• Be confident building controls into processes"and implementing process improvement
• Have experience mentoring and developing others
• Have a strong understanding of excel
• Have experience working with accounting software (knowledge of tools such as Oracle Fusion, Blackline, and Hyperion Financial Management is preferred but not essential)

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/).
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