Primary Details

• Location: London

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity:  

We are seeking a highly experienced and detail-oriented Senior Reinsurance Technical Accountant to join our Group Ceded Reinsurance team. This pivotal role will take the lead on post-placement Quota Share reporting, working closely with the Group’s reinsurance captives, the Offshore Processing Team, and other key stakeholders across the business.

The successful candidate will bring extensive experience in reinsurance technical accounting, particularly in the post-placement lifecycle, and will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of reinsurance financial data and reporting.

Your New Role:  

• Lead the post-placement technical accounting and reporting for Group Managed Quota Share treaties.

• Collaborate with the Group Ceded Reinsurance team, Group Captives, and the Offshore Processing Team to ensure accurate and timely settlement of reinsurance accounts.

• Prepare and review ceded premium, claims, and recoveries reports, ensuring alignment with treaty terms and accounting standards.

• Manage reinsurance account reconciliations and cash flow tracking.

• Liaise with internal stakeholders (Finance, Actuarial, Claims) and external partners (brokers, reinsurers, auditors).

• Support the internal and external periodic audit process related to reinsurance.

• Identify and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to enhance reporting efficiency and accuracy.

• Mentor and support team members, sharing technical knowledge and best practices.

Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role.  QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion.

About you:   

• Extensive experience in a reinsurance technical accounting role, ideally within a global (re)insurance organisation, and complex international reinsurance programs.

• Strong understanding of Quota Share and other reinsurance structures, including treaty wording and accounting implications.

• Proficiency in technical accounting practices.

• Advanced Excel skills; experience with DCXL is highly desirable.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively across teams and manage multiple priorities.

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 your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000. 

To find out more visit our  Reward Page 

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