Insurance Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Experienced Insurance Regulatory Reporting Accountant needed

Do you want to work for a global market leader and the opportunity to develop your career?

cer Financial are working with a leading insurance provider based in Central London. They are looking for an experience Regulatory Reporting Accountant with experience working for an insurance company.

Details on the role:

1. Support the Head of Regulatory Reporting in UK/EMEA Solvency II and other regulatory reporting requirements, including Luxembourg local regulatory reporting.
2. Key contributor to the overall UK/EMEA Regulatory Reporting control environment and internal governance requirements.
3. Working closely with the US GAAP and Legal Entity reporting teams to ensure consistency in processes, approach and integrated data flow from US GAAP SAP for downstream reporting purposes.
4. Provide support to External Auditors, Internal audit, Actuarial and Risk teams for all regulatory reporting topics and issues.
5. Working with Actuarial, ERM and Strategic Finance to drive internal and external reporting consistency, and timely resolution of issues.
6. Work closely with an outsourced team to timely production of the regulatory returns
7. Provide regular feedback and where necessary train the outsourced team.
8. To conduct analytical reviews on judgements and assumptions used for the regulatory reporting including developing and documenting policy methodologies to support the regulatory reporting.

What you’ll need to succeed

1. Qualified accountant with Big 4 experience preferable
2. Experience of delivering Solvency II and regulatory reporting within a large and complex insurance organisation with complex finance systems
3. Proven track record of delivering and working to tight timelines
4. Comfortable explaining difficult concepts to senior management
5. Able to work cohesively in a matrix structure with ability to mentor, coach and develop key staff
6. Strong accounting technical knowledge in US GAAP / European and UK GAAP / Solvency II / Solvency I technical accounting expertise with understanding and interpretation of accounting policies under US GAAP, UK GAAP and European