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.

For more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com

Overall purpose of the job

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 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 timely manners in Sun6.
• Prepare the Journal templates with support for approvals in adherence to processes.
• Organize and save all the backups/ support in shared drive for easy access and follow.
• Investigate monthly inter-company accounts Transactions, Post journals, share and save backups to respective counterpart.
• Maintain and reconcile the Prepayment, Accruals, Debtors, Creditors accounts to the trial balance.
• Review capital expenditure monthly, calculating and reconciling the depreciation. Fixed assets IFRS16
• 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 team, as requested.
• Provide information and assistance to Internal and External Auditors as and when required.
• Assisting in various Ad Hoc Projects as required
  
  
  

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with major in Finance and/or Accounting
• 3-5 years of professional experience in accounting, reporting and/or auditing with 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.
• Strong Excel skills in managing and manipulating large data.
• Adapt at building relationships and have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to prioritize and work under a tight schedule.
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision.
• Highly motivated and great Team Player
  
  
  

Equal opportunity employer

At Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide 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.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.