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About the Role
We're looking for an Assistant Insurance Broking Accountant to assist with the financial management and accounting activities related to our insurance broking platforms, primarily supporting Howden Equine - Howden's specialist equine and bloodstock insurance division. This role will report to the IBA Manager – AUS and will oversee the IBA ledgers, client and insurer reconciliations, and trust account management, working closely with our brokers, the wider finance function, other internal teams and auditors.
Responsibilities
- Performing the IBA function, including maintaining the IBA ledgers within the relevant broking platform/s.
- Attending to insurance debtor and creditor reconciliations and managing client ledgers and accounts with account brokers and the credit control team.
- Reconciling all insurer/underwriter accounts and IBA trust bank accounts, ensuring all outstanding reconciling items are promptly investigated and appropriately resolved.
- Performing the receipting processes, reviewing unallocated cash receipts, and attending to IBA payments, refunds and claims payments.
- Reviewing and validating client and insurer bank account details, and rates and calculations within the broking platform.
- Attending to insurance duty returns and lodgements and assisting with ESL and NRIT returns and lodgements.
- Ensuring data integrity, maintenance and compliance across all systems.
- Assisting the Finance team with general finance-related activities (such as journals, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis).
Requirements
- Accounting and/or other related qualifications.
- 2+ years’ experience as an Assistant Accountant / in an accounting role (insurance industry experience preferable, but not essential).
- Knowledge of relevant tax regimes and duties, such as non-resident withholding tax, GST, insurance duty and ESL/FSL (preferred).
- Strong Excel, Word and Outlook skills.
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to reconciliations and reporting.
- Sound judgement and the ability to build effective working relationships across internal and external stakeholders.
- Embody cultural values: Put people first, be authentic, challenge complacency, think client, pursue excellence and keen to make your mark.
Skills
- Excel
- Word
- Outlook
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Fiji
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Accounting qualifications
Benefits
- Free salary continuance insurance
- Industry-leading bonus leave benefit (up to two weeks' additional paid leave each year)
- Ongoing professional development and learning opportunities
- Supportive and experienced team
- Opportunities to grow capability through a strong mentoring leadership team
- Reasonable adjustments (software, IT, office setups, flexible hours, hybrid working)
About the Company
- Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart.
- We have pushed the boundaries of insurance.
- We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 24,000 employees spanning over 56 countries.
- Our culture is what sets us apart.
- We are part of the Howden Broking Group, the world's largest privately owned insurance broker, headquartered in London.
- Since launching Howden in the Pacific region in March 2021, we have grown from a team of three to over 600 employees across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
- Our mantra is to be People First.
- We believe you can teach someone new skills, but not how to be a different person.
- We offer a chance to join a rapidly growing business at an exciting time, with a genuinely collegiate culture and highly engaged team.
Equal Opportunity
- We wish to provide a supportive and welcoming workplace environment, which represents the communities and cultures within which we live and work.
- We have a huge diversity of talent from all walks of life, each with unique experiences and perspectives, all of whom can make a difference.
- Howden Pacific strives to build an inclusive workplace where our people feel welcome to bring their whole and true self to work, where differences are accepted and where our words and actions are inclusive.
- At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type.
- We're looking for individuals who share the same values as us: Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new, We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges, We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.
- We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs.