Job Description

Job Category: Finance
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Job Type: Permanent
Location: The role is hybrid, whereby the role holder can take advantage of the our flexible working arrangements with a mix of working remotely, at home and working in an office environment. The teams are located in Birmingham, Edinburgh and Telford offices.
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.
Closing Date: 21st January 2026
Salary and benefits: 80,000 - 110,000 depending on experience plus an indicative bonus range of 30- 60% private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We're Phoenix Group, we're a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. 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 and your team will be responsible leading the financial reporting of the Group's regulated life entities. You will lead across the finance teams, defining and receiving high quality inputs and supporting information to provide stakeholders with an assured end product. In addition, you will work directly with the Head of Entity Reporting to deliver upon the team strategy by championing and setting standards for cross team working and communication & to adopt best practice in the leadership and operation of the function.
Key objectives for the individual in this role will be:

• Provision of quarterly controlled IFRS and Solvency II data to group consolidation team
• Production of quality and timely submissions of solo Solvency II QRTs
• Production of quality GAAP entity financial statements
• Entity results explanation and financial controllership
• Entity board and other governance reporting
• Cross team leadership
• Engagement with internal and external audit, and timely closure of management actions
• BAU technical papers and local technical change for insurance entities
• Controls assessment, risk management and reporting
• Ownership for change (including regulatory change) and local process improvements, ensuring change is understood, appropriately tested and implemented safely.
• Operational management of pooled resources to ensure deliveries across the entity reporting team are met

What are we looking for?

• Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with post-qualification experience.
• Strong leadership to support the evolution of finance through the reshaping of how we work, building a team that is more efficient, structured, and accountable.
• Strong technical knowledge of financial reporting requirements in a financial services context, including IFRS, UK GAAP, and Solvency II, with attention to detail to help us ensure our numbers can be validated to the external market and both internal and external auditors.
• The ability to deliver in high pressure environment whilst maintaining quality, resilience, and outcome focus. Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
• Ability to influence and challenge thinking at a senior level faced with a range of conflicting priorities and opinions, using exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to anticipate challenges and issues across a 1 -3-year horizon for change, challenge and growth. Continually seeking to bring the 'outside in' and use external insight to shape the strategic and operational priorities, as well as the operating model of the business to build organisational excellence with industry leading standards.

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.
We're reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.
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