Staff Financial Accountant

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. We look for employees who exemplify these values to join us and help drive our growth.

About the role

Overall purpose of the job The role sits within Finance Group Shared Services and is responsible for running the Record-to-Report (R2R) operations including preparation of monthly financial accounts for a selection of Charles Taylor operational entities across the US Adjusting portfolio. The role requires an experienced accountant to take ownership of the entities to ensure smooth and efficient management of the accounts.

Responsibilities

• Become the senior financial point of contact in the R2R team for the US Adjusting business
• Ensure comprehensive, timely and robust month end close and financials delivering accurate and meaningful numbers and reporting these to the Group center for consolidation
• Ownership of accounting and financial reporting and local finance operations activities to ensure that ledgers are accurate and complete at all times
• Ensure monthly close activities are performed based on a consistent process that ensures complete and accurate information being submitted to