Job Title
FP&A Senior Financial Accountant
Job Description
London FP&A Senior Financial Accountant
We believe in giving you ongoing opportunities to advance your career. Whether you want to take on broader responsibilities or grow in new directions, you are in the right place. Here at Pacific Life Re and UnderwriteMe, we want to help you embrace your potential so you can achieve your personal best doing purposeful work, every day.
About Us
We are a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with our clients around the world to manage their mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk. We provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity reinsurance products and services to our clients. Today, we are one of the largest and most experienced in the longevity market and are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.
We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us. We have a wide range of benefits and regular company activities, including quarterly socials and wellness initiatives.
We are currently midway through a back-office office transformation program (Project Unify) and the company has recently re-organized into a Line of Business structure. The combination of these two events means an exciting time for Financial Planning and Analysis as we modernize our processes and set ourselves up to partner with the business effectively.
Job Description
Senior Accountant, Financial Planning & Analysis
We are seeking a high-performing, driven FP&A professional reporting to the Manager, FP&A to join our global reinsurance business. This role will focus on delivering high-quality financial planning, analysis, and insight to support decision-making within the Division.
This is a hands‑on role that requires strong analytical skills, sound accounting judgment, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business. Understanding complex reinsurance products and the ability to communicate this understanding with colleagues of differing expertise will be an asset in this role. Proficiency in Power BI development and experience working with financial systems would be beneficial. The role does not carry formal people-management responsibility but plays a key role in influencing outcomes through insight, analysis and business partnering.
Team outputs/ objectives
Financial Planning & Analysis is a global function within Finance operating in UK, Asia, Australia and North America.
The FP&A team is responsible for all financial analysis, MI design and production, strategic planning and forecasting. The FP&A team also support the company’s strategic objectives in relation to organic growth, new products and markets, pricing, modelling and Tax strategy.
The team is also responsible for financial analysis, MI, and stakeholder management with the Enterprise FP&A team based in California.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning, Analysis & Insight:
- Support the development and ongoing maintenance PL Re Division planning processes, including annual budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans.
- Prepare and deliver planning and forecasting outputs that provide transparency into performance, risks, and opportunities for senior FP&A leaders and business stakeholders.
- Conduct in-depth financial analysis, including variance analysis, profitability analysis, and scenario modelling, to support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Opportunity to build relationships and partner with divisional expense functions, and Line of Business teams
- Identify risks and opportunities within financial results and forecasts, escalating material items with well-supported analysis and recommendations.
- Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards, and KPIs to track business performance, communicating insights effectively to stakeholders.
- Ensuring analysis is timely, accurate, and decision-focused, enabling stakeholders to understand both financial outcomes and forward-looking implications.
Systems, Data and Process Enhancement:
- Contribute to finance transformation initiatives aimed at standardising and improving FP&A processes, systems and reporting.
- Support implementation of new planning, forecasting and expense management tools, including requirements definition and testing.
- Assist in development of standardised management information and reporting.
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