Systems & Controls Senior Accountant

Job Type:  Permanent

Location: This role is based in our Telford office with time spent working in the office and at home.

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. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: 18 March

Salary and benefits: c £60,000 - £80,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, 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 the UK’s largest 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 will be a qualified accountant with extensive experience of balance sheet risks and issues as you will be responsible for ensuring that all appropriate processes and controls within the team are completed in line with agreed SLA’s and processes.

You will have experience of working in a commercial environment as you will lead the response to external third parties who have outsourced their business to us and you will be maintaining the integrity of their balance sheet in addition to internal Phoenix entities.

You will be required to continuously develop the processes within the team looking for continuous improvement opportunities and hence will display strong systems knowledge to be able to identify where processes have failed or not performed as expected within the underlying policy administration system and therefore excellent SQL knowledge is necessary,

What are we looking for?

• CIMA Or ACCA qualified, with post qualified experience
• Strong SQL skills and experience of interrogating systems data
• Experience of managing balance sheet risks and issues and authorisation of balance sheet reconciliations
• Able to demonstrate management of control environment and remediation of associated issues.
• Good communicator liaising with all levels and cross functions to find solutions fit for all
• Experience of working with policyholder balances in a Financial Services environment would be an advantage.

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.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

Over the next two years, we’ll be moving our customers to a new technology platform. This means that over time, some roles will be in scope for redundancy or redeployment across the group. We’d love for you to join us and gain great experience and we’ll do all we can to mitigate compulsory redundancies. Given that this project will cover a number of years, we’re still looking for talented individuals to join us and will continue to keep all colleagues informed of any direct impacts as we move through this process.

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