Accountant

Overview

Job Title: Accountant

Target Start Date: Asap

Contract Type: 6mth Fixed term contract

Salary Range: £40 – £46k dependant on experience

Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid – 2x week

Closing Date for applications: 17th February

Accountant

Are you a detail-oriented finance professional with a passion for accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement? AgeasUK is seeking a dedicated and analytical individual to join our Finance team, where you’ll play a key role in supporting the monthly close process, preparing financial statements, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting across our UK entities. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our core reporting requirements, as well as supporting the team in the delivery of some key strategic projects.

Main Responsibilities

• Supporting the control and delivery of the monthly close process for the Ageas UK entities, ensuring that all transactions are accurately recorded and that associated balance sheet entries are valid.
• Timely and accurate reporting and reconciliation of the Ageas UK consolidated IFRS balance sheet to Group and senior management on a monthly basis.
• Preparation of first level financial information for various stakeholders within the UK group.
• Critically reviewing monthly close processes and documented procedures to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, ensuring the controls are updated as appropriate.
• Supporting the team with ad hoc queries, projects and the development of knowledge and understanding within the team.
• Building effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Actuarial, Underwriting, Payroll and other parts of Finance.

Skills and experience you need as Accountant

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
• An understanding of the technical aspects of accounting and its application.
• Experience using Oracle’s E1 (general ledger) and IBM’s Cognos TM1 (reporting tool) desirable.
• Excellent attention to detail, and a core value set that is focused on delivering high quality outputs.
• Excellent numerical skills and the ability to understand, evaluate and interpret financial data, identifying and looking to resolve apparent inconsistencies.
• Strong organisational and planning skills and the ability to prioritise and timetable workflows.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Benefits and culture

Flexible Working – Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Health – Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Wealth – 50% off esure and Sheilas\\\’ Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Work – Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Back to work – Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. If you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone. We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

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