Financial Accountant, Reporting Centre of Excellence

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee To assist with accounting and reporting activities ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data, and to liaise with external and internal customers to formulate and implement policy

• Location: Leeds

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity:  

We are excited to announce that due to internal advancement, we have an opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join our Reporting Centre of Excellence team. You will execute Corporate Reporting activities ensuring the accuracy and consistency of underlying data, support ad-hoc data analytics and to liaise with external and internal customers to manage expectations and ensure continued process excellence. This will involve using the wide variety of the evolving stack of available reporting and analytical tools.

The Reporting CoE is a team within the QBE EO Finance function with a remit to own and deliver the single version of the financial truth to the groups internal and external reporting functions. The Reporting CoE is striving to deliver best in class financial reporting results in the most efficient and effective manner.

The roles and exposure within the Reporting CoE are very broad with excellent exposure across the finance function and offer an excellent opportunity to get to the heart of the EO divisional numbers.

Your New Role:  

• Oversee and execute broad range of report production and data manipulation activities, enabling delivery of robust financial results, working in conjunction with Financial Control & Finance Operations functions

• Identify, contribute to and manage the ongoing refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency, automation and control across Corporate Reporting activities

• Collaborate with and support cross training of more junior colleagues, working on reporting activities, at offshore shared services centre

• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations

• Oversee and execute controls / checks on data to ensure robust datasets used for reporting

• Oversee and execute input of data entries and adjustments into the relevant systems to deliver group reporting

• Support ad-hoc analytical and reporting requests

About you:   

In order to thrive in the role of a Financial Accountant here at QBE, we would expect you to have working experience in most of the following areas:

• Part qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent or have relevant years of working experience

• Experience of a continuous improvement environment and a passion to identify and deliver efficiencies with tasks/teams

• Understanding and commitment to quality and control in a fast paced delivery environment

• Digital mindset with a passion for data analytics and reporting

• Knowledge of relevant reporting and analytical tools (eg. HFM) with enthusiasm to embrace new tools and ways of working

• Experience in producing exhibits using financial data

• Experience of Oracle, HFM, Hyperion, Wdesk, Alteryx

Why QBE? At My Best  

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.  

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.? 

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://careers/flex-qbe/). 

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.  

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website. 

At My Best - QBE Benefits  

You are more than your work – and QBE is more than a workplace, which is why we provide you with the benefits, support and flexibility to help you concentrate on living your best life personally and professionally.  As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!  

30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days. 

Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours. 

Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary. 

Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.  

Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent. 

Short term remote work abroad - you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad. 

Sustainable investing - we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions in carbon footprint, by investing more in green businesses than the broader market, so your savings are looking after the planet's future, as well as your own. 

Cycle-to-Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making yo

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