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About the Role
This role focuses on delivering high-quality financial planning, analysis, and insight to support decision-making within the Division. It requires strong analytical skills, sound accounting judgment, and effective collaboration with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business. Understanding complex reinsurance products and communicating this understanding is an asset. The role does not have formal people-management responsibility but influences outcomes through insight, analysis, and business partnering.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Build relationships and partner with divisional expense functions and Line of Business teams.
- 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 implementation of new planning, forecasting, and expense management tools, including requirements definition and testing.
- Assist in the development of standardised management information and reporting.
Requirements
- Typically, 3+ years of relevant post-qualification experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or related finance role.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong experience working with planning systems and analysis tools, including hands-on data extraction and management.
- Appetite to use new technology and embrace new ways of working.
- Accounting knowledge combined with advanced financial analysis and modelling skills.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical rigor, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel (Power query)
- Power BI report development
- Insurance or reinsurance experience
- Finance transformation projects
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of relevant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Professional accounting designation (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) is preferred.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
- Adoption and fertility leave
- Generous enhanced parental leave
- Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
- Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
- Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
- Optical benefits
- 15% combined employee/employer contributions to savings/retirement
- Subsidized gym membership
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Time off for volunteering
- Charitable matching of employee donations
About the Company
- Pacific Life Re is a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with clients worldwide to manage mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk.
- They provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash, and Longevity reinsurance products and services.
- They are one of the largest and most experienced in the longevity market and are continuing international growth with offices across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
- The company has a relaxed but hard-working culture with a focus on employee work-life balance.
- They are midway through a back-office transformation program (Project Unify) and have reorganized into a Line of Business structure.
- This presents an exciting time for Financial Planning and Analysis as processes are modernized to partner effectively with the business.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners, and communities.
- We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
- As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.