Assistant Accountant

Discipline: Finance & Strategy
Job type: Contract
Contact email: ollie@weareedenbrook.com
Job ref: J5093
Published: about 2 months ago
We are working with a leading General Insurer for an Interim Assistant Accountant (12 Months FTC). This role is to ensure timely payment of claims, FAC, premium returns and employee expenses in accordance with company policies and procedures and to provide cover for the other team members. Core responsibilities of the role: • Manage insurance payments (claims, surveyor fee, FAC, premium return and claim fund). • Checking and making payments for employee expense reimbursements. • Posting journals to accounting system, including but not limited to operational/insurance payments and investments. Monitoring and FX posting for the ‘Clearing Account.’ • Covering for other team members in their absence, particularly for the other Assistant Accountant. • Review of the monthly debtors aging and working with Jordan team to provide comments on the overdue balances. • Reconciliation of all Insurance transactions (XIS) related bank accounts and the money market accounts. • Monthly summary of the cash movements of the XIS accounts. • Preparing bank transfers instructions for investments as advised by senior team members/ Chief Investment officer. • Providing analysis of selected expense accounts by comparing actual spent against the budget. • Assist team with other areas of finance during the quarter end. The ideal candidate: • Part qualified for a professional qualification. • Insurance experience is desirable. • Experience in finance or transactions.