Reporting Accountant

Axon Moore are currently partnering with a well-established and growing financial services business to recruit an experienced Reporting Accountant.

Working closely with Finance and key stakeholders, you will play an important role in the preparation of statutory and regulatory reporting, support the external audit process, and provide input on technical accounting matters. You will also contribute to maintaining a strong financial control environment and identifying opportunities to improve reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the preparation of statutory financial statements, interim reporting and regulatory submissions.


• Prepare and review regulatory reporting, including SFCR and QRTs.


• Ensure reporting complies with relevant accounting and regulatory requirements, including IFRS, LUXGAAP and Solvency II.


• Support month-end and statutory close activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, journals, accruals and disclosures.


• Assist with technical accounting assessments covering areas such as reinsurance, acquisitions and disposals, impairments, assumption changes and model changes.


• Support Group reporting and consolidation, including reporting packs, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations.


• Work with external auditors throughout the audit cycle, responding to queries and helping ensure timely completion.


• Contribute to the ongoing development of the financial control environment, including controls, process documentation and remediation activity.


• Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes, including opportunities for greater automation, standardisation and efficiency.

We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with relevant post-qualification experience. You will ideally have:

• Experience in statutory and regulatory reporting, ideally within financial services or insurance.


• Experience preparing or reviewing statutory financial statements under LUXGAAP.


• Knowledge of EU regulatory reporting, including SFCR and QRTs.


• A good understanding of life insurance accounting and the relationship between Finance and Actuarial teams.


• Experience dealing with technical accounting judgements, disclosures and complex transactions.


• Experience working with external auditors and operating within a strong financial control environment.


• A proactive approach to process improvement, with an interest in improving efficiency and automation.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant looking to develop their technical accounting and reporting experience within a complex and regulated environment.

The business offers a generous benefits package, bonus, hybrid working (two days in the office per week) and excellent opportunities for career development and progression.

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on or on . INDFIN

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