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About the Role
This role is an excellent opportunity to join Brown & Brown in a role that offers strong exposure across financial accounting, reporting, and controls, with excellent career development opportunities as the business continues to grow and evolve. The Financial Accountant will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong balance sheet control, and compliance within a regulated insurance environment.
Responsibilities
- Perform the month-end close process, including preparation, review, and posting of General Ledger (GL) journal entries, including transfer of balance from RiskServe to Workday (General Ledger)
- Ensure all month-end journals (accruals, prepayments, reclassifications, and adjustments) are accurate, complete, and posted within close deadlines.
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, ensuring all financial transactions are recorded accurately and on a timely basis.
- Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving reconciling items promptly.
- Produce timely and accurate profit and loss (P&L) analysis, explaining variances against prior periods and budgets.
- Analyse movements in selected balance sheet accounts and provide clear commentary.
- Support management reporting with accurate financial data and insights.
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly regulatory returns, ensuring compliance with insurance and statutory reporting requirements ( FCA RMAR and Baseline resilience survey, ONS Reports, VAT)
- Support adherence to internal accounting policies and external regulatory standards.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing documentation, schedules, and explanations as required.
- Assist in maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring audit points are addressed efficiently.
- Liaise with internal teams and external stakeholders, including auditors and advisors.
- Support ad hoc finance projects and initiatives as required across the business.
- Actively contribute to strengthening the Finance function including continually identifying ways to improve processes, controls, reporting, and analysis, particularly within the month-end close and GL processes.
Requirements
- Qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
- Insurance experience is required to be considered for this role
- Prior experience in financial accounting
- Strong understanding of general ledger, journal processing, and month-end close.
- Experience with balance sheet reconciliations and financial analysis.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Confident communicator with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
- Proficiency in accounting systems and excel.
Skills
- Financial Accounting
- Reporting
- Controls
- General Ledger (GL)
- Month-End Close
- Journal Entries
- Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- Financial Analysis
- Regulatory Reporting
- Audit Support
- Process Improvement
- Excel
- Accounting Systems
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Qualified
Education Level
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA
Salary/Compensations
- £Negotiable
Benefits
- Benefits package
About the Company
- Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers.
- Exposure to a growing, international insurance group
Equal Opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.