Financial Accountant

Company Overview

Charles Taylor is a leading global provider of professional services and technology solutions to the insurance industry. We are a profitable, growing organisation that is highly regarded in the insurance industry, employing some of the industry’s ‘best in class’ professionals and technical experts. Our services and solutions support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model, across all major commercial insurance lines as well as technical areas of personal insurance. We serve a diversified blue‑chip international customer base that includes national and international insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd's syndicates and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors and corporate insureds. Charles Taylor is PE‑backed, following a majority investment by Lovell Minnick Partners in January 2020, and has strong ambitions for organic and acquisition‑led growth. Our delivery of high quality, tailored services and solutions to our clients is backed by our core values of support, excellence in people, client partnership, quality of work, entrepreneurship and positive change.

Role Overview

The role sits within Finance Group Shared Services and is responsible for Record‑to‑Report (R2R) operations including preparation of monthly management accounts and general finance accounting tasks for the Charles Taylor group or one of our businesses. The incumbent will be expected to support and work closely with their assigned Finance Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly accounting journals and post them in a timely manner in Sun6.
• Prepare the journal templates with support for approvals in adherence to processes.
• Organize and save all the backups/support in a shared drive for easy access and follow‑up.
• Investigate monthly inter‑company accounts transactions, post journals, and share and save backups to the respective counterpart.
• Maintain and reconcile the prepayment, accruals, debtors, and creditors accounts to the trial balance.
• Review capital expenditure monthly, calculating and reconciling depreciation; manage fixed assets and IFRS 16 considerations.
• Post payroll, 401K, HSA and bonus accounting journals.
• Support the Finance Manager with general accounting (chart of accounts, journals, accruals, prepayments, period close and open) and month‑end activities.
• Assist/investigate any system‑to‑system reconciliation for the team, as requested.
• Provide information and assistance to internal and external auditors as and when required.
• Assist in various ad‑hoc projects as required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Finance and/or Accounting.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in accounting, reporting and/or auditing with a large global corporation or accounting firm.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP (IFRS knowledge is a plus).
• Experience with Sun6, TM1, Microsoft Dynamics is a plus.
• Detail‑oriented with strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong organizational and stress‑management skills.
• Advanced Excel skills for managing and manipulating large data sets.
• Ability to build relationships and strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and work under a tight schedule.
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision.
• Highly motivated and a great team player.

Charles Taylor is an inclusive employer that provides an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.