Within the newly formed Uris Group (formerly Direct Group) we have worked hard to create a company culture that enhances the Employee experience and above all make it a place where our people matter. There are lots of possibilities to explore within Uris Group across many avenues of the insurance sector and now is an exciting time to become a part of our community. We believe in growing our own talent for the future and creating opportunities is what we do.

This role will require you to support the preparation of divisional financial statements whilst maintaining the day to day financial accouting.

Key

Responsibilities:

• Review Bank reconsilliations prepared by finance staff, including investigation and resolution of reconcilling items
• Ownership of commission drawdown process
• Support to Financial Controllers on cash management and cash flow forecasting
• Individual business unit balance sheet ownership
• Calculation of month end acrruals, including revenue and prepayments.
• Ensure payments are processed within agreed SLA's
• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations and assigned
• verify and control that all data is extracted across various operating systems into the general ledger
• Team managements
• Mentoring of finance staff
• Timely completion of all assigned tasks
• Provide support as required to the management acctant and financial controller.
• Support to deliver finance department projects as undertake
• Continuously seek to enhance systems and controls within the finance department
• Always meet stakeholders needs and requirements and adhere to company values
• Ad hoc duties as and when required

Skills/Qualities/Experience:

• Exchequer (preferred or suitable accountaing package)
• MS Excel - Advanced
• Ability to execute in a timely and efficient manner when provided tasks
• Ability to think laterally in a problem solving/trouble shooting capacity
• High level of accuracy

Qualifications/Requirements:

• 8 GCSE's grade C and above (including maths and english) or equivalent
• Accouting Experience
• AAT Qualified or equivalent (preferred)
• A desire and willingness to undertake further professional qualifications.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive salary

• Generous holiday allowance

• Life Insurance

• Westfield Health Cash Plan

• Enhanced Company Pension

• Retail Discounts

The hours of work would be 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday between the hours of 8:30am and 5:30pm.

Due to Covid-19 this role will initially be home based.