Description

Job Type: Fixed Term Contract 12 months



Location:
This role is based out of our Telford office and is hybrid, office and home based.

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.

Closing Date: 04/09/2024

Salary and benefits: £55,000 - £65,000 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

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Senior Accountant to join our product & proposition finance change team.

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 business that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The Role

We’re currently recruiting for a Senior Accountant to join our product & proposition finance change team to provide professional accountancy and / or finance analysis service across business processes to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory, reputational and commercial requirements.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the delivery of designated finance activity throughout the project change cycle. Deliveries will include accounting requirements captured, reviewed, appropriate scope, validated against IT designs and implemented into BAU efficiently and effectively. The use of appropriate MI to stakeholders will be essential. Cross functional collaboration will include participating in internal discussions and groups in order to promote finance interests, identify requirements which will contribute to the successful delivery of the projects.

The role will require the successful candidate to understand and communicate complex accounting/finance procedures and principles with multiple stakeholders across the business both internally and externally. With this fast paced role, balancing competing priorities on different pieces of work in challenging timescales will be key, while maintaining a continually high quality of output. The role will require the candidate to confidently influence decisions across the organisation teams where priorities and interests are often conflicting.

What We’re Looking For

Essential

Fully or part qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

Good ownership of tasks, through excellent organisation skills and diligent approach

Good interpersonal skills, to build networks across accounting and the wider business

Stakeholder management

Desirable

Knowledge of ALPHA

Experience using SQL

Experience of finance operational change ideally within life or equivalent

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.

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• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates

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