Cost & Treasury Accountant

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My client, a leading global Reinsurer, are looking to hire a Cost & Treasury Accountant to join the Finance function of their Life Business. This is an exciting role, offering the opportunity to shape the expense, banking, and financial operations of the business.

Job Title: Cost & Treasury Accountant
Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in office per week)
Industry: Insurance
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 – £63,000

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of expense management, banking operations, planning, budgeting, and financial operations across multiple UK legal entities, ensuring accurate, consistent, and well?governed financial processes.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior leadership by providing clear financial analysis, insight, and constructive challenge to support decision?making.
• Drive continuous improvement through process enhancement and automation, maintaining up?to?date documentation, controls, and policy frameworks.
• Oversee end?to?end expense processes, including annual planning, management and Board reporting, intercompany recharges, and shared?service cost allocations.
• Manage liquidity and treasury operations, including bank reconciliations, payroll funding, banking transactions, and employee expense programmes.

Preferred background:

My client, a leading global Reinsurer, are looking to hire a Cost & Treasury Accountant to join the Finance function of their Life Business. This is an exciting role, offering the opportunity to shape the expense, banking, and financial operations of the business.

Job Title: Cost & Treasury Accountant
Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days in office per week)
Industry: Insurance
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 – £63,000

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of expense management, banking operations, planning, budgeting, and financial operations across multiple UK legal entities, ensuring accurate, consistent, and well?governed financial processes.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior leadership by providing clear financial analysis, insight, and constructive challenge to support decision?making.
• Drive continuous improvement through process enhancement and automation, maintaining up?to?date documentation, controls, and policy frameworks.
• Oversee end?to?end expense processes, including annual planning, management and Board reporting, intercompany recharges, and shared?service cost allocations.
• Manage liquidity and treasury operations, including bank reconciliations, payroll funding, banking transactions, and employee expense programmes.

Preferred background:

• Newly Qualified or Part-Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience of expense forecasting and cost-allocation methodologies.
• Experience in Treasury Operations and Purchase ledger management.
• Experience within an Insurance or Financial Services business.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global brand with a great internal culture. For more information, please email [email protected] or message Ben Lines on LinkedIn.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global brand with a great internal culture. For more information, please email [email protected] or message Ben Lines on LinkedIn.

Bruin recognises the positive value of diversity, and aims to promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. As a champion of equal opportunity employment we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services industry. Our clients work with us because they value a diverse workforce, and subscribe to our shared principle that all appointments are made on merit and that ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.