Project Accountant, Financial Services, Surrey

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT, FINANCIAL SERVICES, SURREY

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT role for FTSE100 INSURANCE company based in SURREY. This is a 3-6 MONTH CONTRACT, paying up to £500 a day.

As a Project Accountant, you will be reporting directly into the Head of Financial Reporting and will help implemen a new system. The responsibilities of this role will include assessing impact of the new system on existing financial reporting processes, helping define and implementing changes to existing processes and supporting user acceptance testing of new system.

The ideal candidate will have experience in supporting system based changes to financial reporting processes, have financial services (preferably Insurance industry and accounting experience).

In addition to this the following skills and experiences are essential:

- Must have insurance experience
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
- Experience in performing UAT and reconciling to source
- Experiencing of implementing interfaces to ledgers
- Project Focused
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent process orientation
- Broad accounting and particularly life insurance operational and accounting knowledge.