Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant - 12 month FTC

Location:

Bexhill/Hybrid

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We’re a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we've made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4

Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same - building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

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HD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.

The Financial Accounts Team is responsible for the Management and Financial Accounting for the retail trading entity plus all of the holding companies within the Hastings Insurance Group including full Group consolidations. The team also ensures the integrity of the Group's Balance Sheets by performing monthly reconciliations and using business insight to understand the movements and provide informative commentary.

• Production/review of all month end consolidation adjustments for the Hastings Insurance Group with adherence to IFRS
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• Working closely with IT and Operations on our customer interest calculations to ensure accuracy
• Production/review of month end journals for Hastings and all holding entities within the Group, including accruals and provisions
• Working closely with Financial Planning & Analysis team to finalise month end results
• Production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, providing insightful commentary into movements and ownership of specific balance sheet area and leadership of related monthly control meetings
• Provision of data to external auditors

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Ability to analyse, summarise and insightfully comment upon data
• Strong Systems skills outside of pure accounting systems
• Excellent reconciliation skills and attention to detail
• Must be able to work on own initiative

Our interview process involves the below:

• Recruiter screening call
• 1st stage interview with hiring leader
• 2nd interview with hiring leaders leader

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website.

Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

In addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive …

We champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail.

All colleagues are eligible for our annual 4

Cs performance bonus.

As a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen.

As well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support.

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