Senior Financial Accountant
About the Company
My client a global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance, based in Central Dublin, are recruiting a Financial Accountant within their Group Finance team.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a team where you will have lots of variety and exposure including internal, Regulatory & Statutory Reporting, Ledger Close, Balance Sheet reviews and Analytics, FP&A, Capital Management and Project work as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivery of assigned responsibilities for Monthly and Quarterly US GAAP close functions.
- Quarterly Balance Sheet Reviews and analytics.
- Issue resolution and liaison with upstream operations and underwriting teams for process improvement.
- Address queries arising from various departments including Corporate, Treasury, Segment Finance and Legal Entity Controllers.
- Continuous review of current processes to identify opportunities for standardization or transformation.
- Quarterly and ad-hoc legal entity financial analysis for circulation to key stakeholders across the business.
- Quarterly Board and Executive Management meeting finance presentations.
- Legal entity annual operating budgets, 3 year strategic plans and projected balance sheets.
- Irish and UK GAAP quarterly reporting.
- Financial Statements preparation and review.
- Support the production of the Finance input to the quarterly and annual Solvency II returns including Statutory ledger close and reconciliation.
- Support the production of annual narrative reports (Solvency & Financial Condition Report and RegulatorySupervisory Report) for submission to the CBI.
Experience/Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with minimum 3 years post qualified experience.
- Previous accounting / audit experience within the Insurance / reinsurance industry.
- Good understanding of Irish GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP reporting requirements.
- Solvency II reporting experience.
- Good understanding of SOX compliance requirements with respect to financial reporting processes.
Remuneration Package
- Salary €75,000-€85,000
- Bonus 15%
- Pension 12.5%
- Health Insurance
Contact
For more information on this position or other Accountancy roles, please contact Grace Caraher on 01-5927864 or hit the apply button below to send your cv. Alternatively, contact her directly via email;
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