Job Description

About the Role:

To perform a range of specialist finance activities to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory, reputational and commercial operational finance requirements within Servaada and to lead others in the accountancy discipline with a strong focus on system and control

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Key Responsibilities:

• Applying commercial understanding of the business to ensure accountancy advice is aligned with the business needs.
• Communicating complex accounting procedures and principles with multiple stakeholders across the business and influencing outcomes.
• Ensuring a continually high quality of output to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and meet customer needs
• Maintaining and applying knowledge of multiple reporting basis and overseeing team development.
• Maintaining up to date professional knowledge in an environment of fast moving regulatory change.
• Managing a range of senior stakeholders across the business.
• Managing competing priorities on different pieces of work in challenging timescales.
• Support the decision making process across the organisation teams where priorities and interests are often conflicting.

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Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

Knowledge

• Understands the commercial environment
• Understands requirements of Finance control environment
• Knowledge of Master Trust and Client Money Controls

Experience

• At least 10 years’ experience in a finance department (or relevant qualification)
• Experience of working within a regulatory environment
• Demonstrated experience leading control remediation
• Experience of system interrogation.

Qualifications (desirable not essential)

A qualified or in training member of a CCAB body or equivalent qualification (or relevant experience)

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Competencies

• As required, lead, develop, coach and mentor others to maximise their contribution
• Design and monitor appropriate quality assurance controls to ensure the accuracy and validity of Servaada financial information.
• Ensure all data is prepared and reported in accordance with relevant reporting standards and business reporting requirements.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Lead the delivery of designated accounting activity throughout regulatory and new business requirements. Deliveries include accounting requirements captured, reviewed, validated against project designs and implemented into BAU
• Maintain an appropriate level of technical accountancy knowledge and understanding of different reporting requirements, including the policyholder accounting journey from source system to regulatory reporting.
• Manage and undertake analysis of complex business data to provide recommendations on operational viability.
• Manage project work to support the development of robust and effective financial reporting processes and outputs, in relation to BAU needs as well as Waterloo requirements.
• Perform a range of activities to support key stakeholders in a range of business environments, such as within the regular finance reporting cycle or within a project environment to inform business decision making.