Apply: Senior Statutory & Regulatory Accountants - Insurance

Reference: BH-175119-2
Our client is a leading global insurance group currently going through a number of major transformation and implementation programs within their finance function.  As such they are looking for a number of senior regulatory and statutory accountants to join the finance team to back-fill current team members moving onto projects and secondments. 

Reporting to the Financial Controller you will focus on:

  • Timely delivery of complete and accurate local and group reporting processes, including month/quarter end close processes,
  • Lead discussions with stakeholders in Finance and the business to resolve issues and support other team members in the close process.
  • Manage reporting areas or functions, related corporate entities, underwriting agency results, reporting to government bodies 
  • Implement and maintain an appropriate control framework to ensure complete, accurate and timely reporting. Proactively improve month-end processes and controls through appropriate risk recognition and mitigation.
  • Prepare quarterly balance sheet reconciliations and investigate variances proactively.
  • Establish strong working relationships within and outside of Finance, be a 'go-to person' for areas of responsibility and understand the business, their strategies and drivers, and the connection to figures reported. Support the team in developing these networks.
  • Deliver year-end financial statement compilation process, including full analysis of figures, preparation of Board / Audit Committee papers. Assist in coordinating and facilitating requests from the external auditor.
  • Assisting with ad-hoc projects - e.g. implementation of new accounting standards, review of strategic business proposals, acquisitions/divestment's.
You will be a qualified accountant with strong financial, statutory and/or regulatory reporting experience within a financial services environment and be available at short notice.  Will also consider candidates on working holiday visas from Big 4 / chartered accounting backgrounds.
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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