Technical Accountant – 6-12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover)

Location; Crewe, Cheshire - Hybrid or Remote working opportunities available

Who are we?

Assurant, Inc. is a global leader in business services for the connected world. Our lifestyle and housing solutions help leading brands grow revenue, manage risk and provide a great experience for their customers. We support, connect and service over 300 million consumers worldwide, helping people get more value from their connected devices, vehicles and homes. Assurant is a proud member of the Fortune 500, with decades of experience in the industries we serve.

Our Values

Common Sense, Common Decency, Uncommon Thinking and Uncommon Results guide our every action at Assurant. These values inspire our commitment to be a responsible corporate citizen.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the European Financial Controller you will prepare the underwriting data in the company’s general ledger, ensuring accuracy and completeness in accordance with the monthly reporting timetables

You will also ensure adequate controls are maintained through the preparation of balance sheet and underwriting reconciliations

You will:

• Reconcile general ledger interfaces to cash transactions, profitability reports and other reporting·     
• Create manual journal entries for non-interfaced business and for ledger corrections·      
• Prepare sales invoices and processing of vendor invoices following the correct approval and payment process·      
• Ensure that period end provisions for unearned premium, deferred expenses, outstanding claims and IBNR have been correctly made and following up with actuarial and underwriting staff.  This will include checking interfaces back to underwriting data and creation of manual journals for adjustments and non-interfaced business.  ·      
• Ensure that transactions are recorded at the level of detail required for future reporting, including the correct use of general ledger fields in addition to the development and use of controls·     
• Create cash transfer requests with appropriate journals and the reconciliation of insurance control accounts between departments·      
• Report IPT liabilities, reconciliation of IPT balances and cash transfers·      
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliation for specified accounts

You Have:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and a high level of technical proficiency
• Advanced spreadsheet skills
• Good accounting skills with a desire to develop new solutions
• Experience of PeopleSoft, Felita or equivalent such as SAP
• Experience of AS400 desirable, but not essential
• Experience of the insurance industry

Benefits & Training 

• Financial, social and health discounts
• Medicash
• Internal Wellbeing Programme
• Learning and Development opportunities

At Assurant, diversity helps us inspire creativity in the global marketplace, and we are believers in the strategic value of inclusion and how it improves performance, creates growth opportunities, better aligns us to our clients, and enhances employee engagement. 

We look forward to receiving your application

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