Job Description

Job Title: Accountant
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: 12-14mth FTC
Salary Range: 36k - 42k dependant on experience
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: 15th August
Accountant: Are you a detail-oriented finance professional with a passion for accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement? Ageas UK is seeking a dedicated and analytical individual to join our Finance team, where you'll play a key role in supporting the monthly close process, preparing financial statements, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting across our UK entities. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the delivery of our core reporting requirements, as well as supporting the team in the delivery of some key strategic projects.
Main Responsibilities as Accountant:

• Supporting the control and delivery of the monthly close process for the Ageas UK entities, ensuring that all transactions are accurately recorded and that associated balance sheet entries are valid.
• Timely and accurate reporting and reconciliation of the Ageas UK consolidated IFRS balance sheet to Group and senior management on a monthly basis.
• Preparation of first level financial information for various stakeholders within the UK group.
• Meeting internal and external tax compliance requirements across all types of business taxes (excluding payroll taxes).
• Preparing the annual financial statements for the Ageas UK entities, including liaising with external auditors and ensuring the appropriate internal reviews take place.
• Critically reviewing monthly close processes and documented procedures to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, ensuring the controls are updated as appropriate.
• Supporting the team with ad hoc queries, projects and the development of knowledge and understanding within the team.
• Building effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Actuarial, Underwriting, Payroll and other parts of Finance.

Skills and experience you need as Accountant:

• Qualified or part qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
• An understanding of the technical aspects of accounting and its application
• Good Excel skills
• Experience using Oracle's E1 (general ledger) and IBM's Cognos TM1 (reporting tool) desirable
• Excellent attention to detail, and a core value set that is focused on delivering high quality outputs
• Excellent numerical skills and the ability to understand, evaluate and interpret financial data, identifying and looking to resolve apparent inconsistencies
• Strong organisational and planning skills and the ability to prioritise and timetable workflows.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see .
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see .
Important Notice - Recruitment Scam Alert: We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process. Ageas will always ask you to make an application via our Company Websites and all legitimate Ageas job opportunities are listed on our official careers pages within. Communication will only come from verified Ageas email addresses and if you are unsure about the legitimacy of a job offer or communications you are receiving, please contact recruitment@ageas.co.uk with the subject FRAUD.
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