Regulatory Reporting Accountant

Regulatory Reporting Accountant

London

Permanent

£60,000

cer Financial are working alongside an asset management company who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Regulatory Reporting Accountant to work with them on a permanent basis.

The responsibilities of the candidate will include:

• Support the Head of Regulatory Reporting in UK/EMEA Solvency II and other regulatory reporting requirements, including Luxembourg local regulatory reporting.
• Key contributor to the overall UK/EMEA Regulatory Reporting control environment and internal governance requirements.
• Working closely with the US GAAP and Legal Entity reporting teams to ensure consistency in processes, approach and integrated data flow from US GAAP SAP for downstream reporting purposes.
• Provide support to External Auditors, Internal audit, Actuarial and Risk teams for all regulatory reporting topics and issues.
• Working with Actuarial, ERM and Strategic Finance to drive internal and external reporting consistency, and timely resolution of issues.
• Work closely with an outsourced team to timely production of the regulatory returns
• Provide regular feedback and where necessary train the outsourced team.
• To conduct analytical reviews on judgements and assumptions used for the regulatory reporting including developing and documenting policy methodologies to support the regulatory reporting.

What you will need to succeed:

• Qualified accountant with Big 4 experience preferable
• Experience of delivering Solvency II and regulatory reporting within a large and complex insurance organisation with complex finance systems
• Proven track record of delivering and working to tight timelines
• Comfortable explaining difficult concepts to senior management
• Able to work cohesively in a matrix structure with ability to mentor, coach and develop key staff
• Strong accounting technical knowledge in US GAAP / European and UK GAAP / Solvency II / Solvency I technical accounting expertise with understanding and interpretation of accounting policies under US GAAP, UK GAAP and European