Senior Accountant, FP&A

Senior Accountant, FP&A

We believe in giving you ongoing opportunities to advance your career. Whether you want to take on broader responsibilities or grow in new directions, you are in the right place. Here at Pacific Life Re and Underwrite Me, we want to help you embrace your potential so you can achieve your personal best doing purposeful work, every day.

We are a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with our clients around the world to manage their mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk. We provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity reinsurance products and services to our clients. Today, we are one of the largest and most experienced in the longevity market and are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us. We have a wide range of benefits and regular company activities, including quarterly socials and wellness initiatives.

We are currently midway through a back-office office transformation program (Project Unify) and the company has recently re-organised into a Line of Business structure. The combination of these two events means an exciting time for Financial Planning and Analysis as we modernise our processes and set ourselves up to partner with the business effectively.

We are seeking a high-performing Senior Accountant, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to join our global reinsurance business on a 12‑month Fixed Term Contract (FTC). This role covers mainly core FP&A business‑as‑usual activities and some finance transformation initiatives (Project Unify), supporting the production of high-quality financial planning, analysis and insight to enable decision‑making within the Division and the ongoing modernisation of FP&A processes, systems and management information.

This is a hands‑on role that requires strong analytical skills, sound accounting judgement and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Finance, Project Unify and the wider business. Understanding complex reinsurance products and the ability to communicate this understanding with colleagues of differing expertise will be an asset in this role.

Proficiency in Power BI development and experience working on a finance transformation project would be beneficial.

This position does not carry formal people‑management responsibility but plays a key role in influencing outcomes through insight, analysis and effective business partnering.

• Support the development and ongoing maintenance of PL Re Division planning processes, including annual budgets, forecasts, and long‑range plans.
• Prepare and deliver planning and forecasting outputs that provide transparency into performance, risks, and opportunities for senior FP&A leaders and business stakeholders.
• Conduct in‑depth financial analysis, including variance analysis, profitability analysis and scenario modelling, to support operational and strategic decision‑making.
• Identify risks and opportunities within financial results and forecasts, escalating material items with well‑supported analysis and recommendations.
• Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards and KPIs to track business performance, communicating insights effectively to stakeholders.
• Ensure analysis is timely, accurate and decision‑focused, enabling stakeholders to understand both financial outcomes and forward‑looking implications.

• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives aimed at standardising and improving FP&A processes, systems and reporting.
• Support the implementation of new planning, forecasting and expense management tools, including requirements definition and testing.
• Assist in the development of standardised management information and reporting.

• Professional accounting designation (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Relevant post‑qualification experience in FP&A, financial analysis or a related finance…