Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Regulatory Reporting Accountant

London

Permanent

£60,000

cer Financial are working alongside an asset management company who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Regulatory Reporting Accountant to work with them on a permanent basis.

The responsibilities of the candidate will include:

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 will 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