Senior Accounts Technician - Payments

Role Description

We’re looking for a motivated and detail-orientated Senior Accounts Technician to join our Accounts Payment team.

Working within our Accounts Payment team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality financial reporting, governance and operational excellence. As a technical expert, you'll use your understanding of financial systems, controls and reporting processes to provide meaningful insight that supports business decision-making. You'll regularly engage with senior stakeholders across the business, translating complex financial and technical information into clear, actionable recommendations for non-technical audiences. As the go-to person for specialist queries, you'll help shape best practice, drive continuous improvement initiatives and support the Team Leader by providing guidance to colleagues and deputising in their absence.

Location: This role is be based in our Guildford office, please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation that attend the office 40% of your time.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £55,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

As a Senior Accounts Technician, you will:

• Deliver monthly and quarterly reporting in accordance with agreed deadlines, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful and aligned to stakeholder requirements.
• Improve the controls environment and support the implementation of internal and external audit recommendations to strengthen governance and mitigate risk.
• Act as the subject matter expert for payment processes, providing technical guidance, advice and support to colleagues and stakeholders across the business.
• Own and coordinate the external audit process, ensuring timely delivery of audit requirements and effective stakeholder engagement throughout.
• Support projects relating to Accounting Harmonisation and payment process improvements.
• Support the development, maintenance and governance of standard operating procedures, functional rules, process documentation and best-practice guidance to ensure consistency, compliance and operational excellence across the function.
• Develop strong relationships with internal and external customers, including Executive Committee members, providing trusted expertise, understanding their needs and ensuring outputs consistently meet business requirements.
• Build and maintain an effective control framework for your area, ensuring all payments and controls are completed accurately and on time.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards and management information that provide clear, accurate and timely visibility of operational performance, trends, risks, exceptions and areas requiring management attention.
• Present complex financial, reporting and operational information to a range of audiences, translating technical data into clear and meaningful insights that support decision-making by non-technical stakeholders.
• Support the Team Leader, mentor colleagues across the wider team, act as a referral point for complex queries and provide cover during periods of absence.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, productivity, control effectiveness and service delivery through process simplification, standardisation, automation and the adoption of best practice.
• Use performance data and management information to identify trends, monitor service delivery and provide insights that support strategic decision-making across the function.
• Manage and maintain effective relationships with offshore teams, providing clear direction, support and constructive challenge where required to ensure consistent process execution, effective issue resolution and adherence to agreed controls and service standards.

Essential Skills

• Significant experience working within an Accounts Department.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and good knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong understanding of how business activities translate into financial transactions and reporting.
• Good knowledge of SAP and BEx systems.
• Part Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
• Capability to mentor and support colleagues within a team environment.
• Strong ability to analyse, interpret and present complex financial and operational data to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience building relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels, including up to Executive Committee.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience driving continuous improvement, automation or process transformation initiatives within a finance environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining functional rules, standard operating procedures and governance documentation.
• Experience working collaboratively with offshore or geographically dispersed teams.
• Knowledge of the insurance or financial services sector.
• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Ouraim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Inclusive Support & Accessibility

At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: cathryn.thomas@allianz.co.uk

Closing date: 4th November 2026

Join us – Let’s Care for Tomorrow. #LI-Hybrid

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