Job Type: Permanent 

Location:  This role could be based in either our Edinburgh, Wythall (Birmingham) or Telford offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. 

Salary and benefits:  Up to £55k depending on experience plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Accountant in our Technical & Oversight Team within Financial Reporting

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role 

You’ll join our Technical & Oversight Team within Financial Reporting to provide professional accountancy and regulatory advice across all business processes ensuring that our organisation meets its regulatory, reputational, and commercial requirements.

You’ll be responsible for providing technical accounting and regulatory reporting to contribute to a compliant end to end financial reporting process. Managing the environment for impacts on Phoenix Life’s financial reporting and control technical issues across the department.

As part of this role, you’ll produce high quality papers providing sound analysis and recommendations fit for all levels of stakeholder/governance. Producing quality departmental updates to Boards on behalf of Life Finance by co-ordinating the relevant inputs, coordinating suppliers and contributing to the review process as well as co-ordinating KPI, KRI, risk and control reporting across the Financial Reporting team.

You’ll also get the opportunity to support the technical accounting needs of our business change projects and external developments.

What are we looking for?

You’ll be a Qualified Accountant with a background in audit with experience of producing sound technical accounting analysis.

You’ll be able to communicate confidently, asserting influence at all levels and across functions, with other areas of the business.  You’ll be able to present information requests and financial data in an easily understandable manner.

We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational ability and who can work under pressure to tight deadlines.

 We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

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