Financial Reporting Accountant

Join us as a Financial Reporting Accountant to grow your career with a global market leader.

Make your mark in Finance

Our Finance team plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance sheet at AIG. It delivers significant finance support for the overall enterprise, optimizing operations, controllership, funding, and capital structure to honour our stakeholder commitments. The team’s work is invaluable to informing leadership decision making, complying with regulatory requirements, and maintaining financial discipline, transparency and controls, while providing timely and meaningful information.

How you will create an impact

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious part-qualified who is keen to step up and develop their finance career. You will have the opportunity to work within our Controllership Finance function and broaden your knowledge of financial reporting in a large organisation.

The role assists with the delivery of financial statements and other statutory reporting requirements for AIGUK, non-insurance entities and the UK Solvency Group. This includes annual statutory finance processes, management of the audit engagement, ad-hoc finance assistance for other AIG entities, support on internal (SOX) controls and the delivery of required submissions to Companies House and other stakeholders in accordance with governance requirements.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

Assist with statutory reporting requirements of AIGUK and the non-insurance entities within the UK Group.

Assist with developing ESG reporting disclosures for UK entities to ensure compliance with evolving Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS).

Develop UK GAAP/US GAAP technical experience and become a key SME for legal entity reporting.

Work with external auditors to deliver financial statements in line with applicable standards.

Assist with developing the overall control environment and internal governance requirements for each legal entity.

Ensure consistency in all processes and the integrated data flow from US GAAP ledger for downstream reporting purposes.

Key contact point for External Audit, Actuarial, Risk and Tax teams for all financial reporting topics and issues.

Review of principal balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with AIG internal controls.

Prepare results for key stakeholders such as the board directors and other members of the Finance Leadership team.

Together with Actuarial, ERM and Strategic Finance you will assist with overseeing internal and external reporting consistency, and timely resolution of issues.

Develop and maintain efficient processes, maintaining policies and methodologies to support external reporting requirements.

What you'll need to succeed

Experience of working in a finance role in large and complex Financial Services organisation with complex systems.

Part qualified accountant

Strong UK GAAP technical accounting knowledge.

Self-starter, team player and able to manage time effectively to meet deadlines and priorities.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfortable dealing with and explaining technical concepts to senior management.

Ready to take your career to the next level? We would love to hear from you.