Technical Accountant

HDI is a Corporate & Specialty Insurer part of the Talanx Group. With over 120 years of experience, HDI operates across five continents, around 40 countries and employs over 5,000 people worldwide.

The role

• To carry out all aspects of insurance credit control for the UK and Ireland branch.
• To support the Financial Controller and the credit control team with technical knowledge, training and in depth team technical tasks.
• Develop knowledge and regularly produce accurate team debt reports (weekly and quarterly)
• Act as team representative within the branch.

Key accountabilities

• Develop the synchronization and collaboration with the key significant brokers to facilitate the timely collection of debt
• Support the Technical accountants within the team to resolve queries and provide in depth knowledge to ensure best practices are met
• To accurately process all cash amounts to the appropriate ledger, having agreed the items with the relevant third party. This includes brokers, co-insurers, reinsurers and other third parties, such as loss adjusters etc.
• To correctly allocate all cash against the respective debt entries on the ledgers (including in the HDI GNP) and to be able to reconcile any balance due to/from the third party to the third party statements.
• Develop knowledge to promptly and proactively investigate any settlement or accounts queries on the ledgers, liaising with the underwriters, operations technicians and claims teams as appropriate to resolve the queries.
• To issue accurate and timely statements of account to all third parties, as required in order to facilitate prompt settlement of
• To process accurate cash entries/journals onto the appropriate ledgers, in order to ensure up-to-date statement of accounts are maintained . This will include various inter-company accounts as well as those of third
• To operate best practice credit control procedures in order to ensure Terms of Trade are met.
• To proactively participate in topics or other initiatives designed to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of the credit control department.
• To undertake any other tasks as requested by the Financial Controller in order that the team achieve its

Skills & experience

• Strong knowledge of insurance and the terminologies used, across all lines of business
• Good interpersonal skills - comfortable with phone & face to face discussions with customers, underwriters, brokers & other internal technical staff
• Experience of working with credit control teams & understanding their requirements
• Able to organise own workload effectively to meet service standards
• Deadline focused; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Competent user of Excel & Word
• Systems knowledge, experience of using various company bespoke systems to extract data

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