A London city-based insurance company is seeking an experienced qualified accountant to join them as an MGA Reporting Accountant.

Reporting to the Group Financial Reporting Manager the successful candidate will focus of on both the onboarding and the ongoing provision of high-quality management and financial reporting for the assigned group(s) of entities, primarily MGA’s and related consolidation. This includes playing a key role in the financial onboarding of new MGA relationships, recognising that individual MGAs may have differing structures, systems and reporting requirements. The role will include assessing these differences, working with the wider business to design and embed appropriate finance processes, systems interfaces and controls, and ensuring that robust, scalable reporting is established from initial onboarding through to business-as-usual reporting.

This role will also contribute to the Group Financial Reporting team in the overall financial close and reporting process and production of all financial reporting deliverables and analysis for Group of entities, including consolidation.

Furthermore, this role is responsible for ongoing process and procedure reviews specifically focused on key consolidation processes, analytical review of group reporting outputs, monitoring of key controls and supporting business-wide process improvement projects and system change.

Applicants must be qualified accountants with previous MGA Accounting experience, have had exposure to Group Accounting and Consolidation within MGA’s, possess good analytical and Management Information (MI) reporting skills, be skilled in identifying and implementing process improvements, and have strong Excel proficiency e.g. SUMIFS, pivot tables, VLOOKUP etc.