Financial Accountant
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Reporting To: Harry Fort
Description
We’re looking for a Financial Accountant to play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, completeness and integrity of financial data across the CFC group. You’ll support the month-end close, deliver high-quality financial reporting outputs, and provide insight through robust analysis and commentary to a range of stakeholders.
About the role
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Prepare year-end financial statement inputs and supporting analysis relevant to CFC, ensuring completeness, accurate ledger tie-outs, and producing detailed analytical review notes to support disclosures.
- Support the preparation of internal and external regulatory and Group reporting submissions for CFC, ensuring consistency between CFC MI, statutory reporting, and Group reporting outputs.
- Conduct actuals vs expected analysis for CFC results, ensuring material variances are clearly explained, evidenced, and communicated to stakeholders.
- Prepare and coordinate CFC MI reporting packs, ensuring timely delivery of accurate financial insights and operational drivers.
- Produce and contribute to CFC and Group Board Packs, providing clear, concise financial summaries with supporting analytics.
About you
To be considered for this role:
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Newly qualified up to c. 3 years post-qualification (or equivalent experience).
- Strong financial accounting fundamentals, including close, reconciliations, controls and audit support.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to explain movements and tell the story behind the numbers.
- Strong stakeholder management and the confidence to work with finance and non-finance teams.
- Advanced Excel skills; experience improving processes and automating reporting is a plus.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
