Zego
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2016
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
🛡️ Insurance
💰 $150M Series C on 2021-03
Logistics • Consulting • Insurance
Zego is a company that provides flexible motor insurance solutions for various types of drivers and riders, including private hire taxi drivers, delivery drivers, and courier users. Zego's insurance products cover vehicles such as cars, scooters, motorbikes, and vans, and are designed to accommodate both personal and business use. Using technology such as the Sense telematics app, Zego offers personalized and potentially cheaper insurance premiums for safe drivers. The company collaborates with major delivery and ride-sharing platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Amazon Flex to offer tailored insurance options for their drivers. Zego emphasizes customer satisfaction, providing easy-to-use services via their app, and is a trusted provider for thousands of UK and European drivers.
Interim Head of Finance
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Zego
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2016
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
🛡️ Insurance
💰 $150M Series C on 2021-03
Logistics • Consulting • Insurance
Zego is a company that provides flexible motor insurance solutions for various types of drivers and riders, including private hire taxi drivers, delivery drivers, and courier users. Zego's insurance products cover vehicles such as cars, scooters, motorbikes, and vans, and are designed to accommodate both personal and business use. Using technology such as the Sense telematics app, Zego offers personalized and potentially cheaper insurance premiums for safe drivers. The company collaborates with major delivery and ride-sharing platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Amazon Flex to offer tailored insurance options for their drivers. Zego emphasizes customer satisfaction, providing easy-to-use services via their app, and is a trusted provider for thousands of UK and European drivers.
📋 Description
• Own the general ledger and insurance balance sheet in NetSuite, accounting for premiums, claims, commissions, reinsurance recoveries and profit-share arrangements • Lead month-end and year-end close and produce insurance-carrier management accounts • Prepare annual statutory accounts under UK GAAP (FRS 102) and applicable Gibraltar Companies Act requirements • Support regulatory returns to the GFSC • Reconcile balance sheet, bank, fiduciary, and intercompany accounts monthly, including reconciliation to actuarial reserves • Validate and integrate technical reserve calculations such as IBNR, UPR and URR into the ledgers • Support Solvency II reporting, including QRTs, SFCR and ORSA inputs • Monitor capital adequacy and appropriate capital buffers • Partner with actuarial, underwriting and pricing teams to analyse loss ratios, combined ratios and product-line profitability • Design, implement and enforce financial controls and SOPs • Act as primary contact for external auditors and the GFSC and manage the annual audit through sign-off • Ensure timely filing of corporate taxes and regulatory financial submissions • Manage, mentor and develop one finance team member • Oversee daily cash flow and liquidity and produce rolling cash flow forecasts • Support investment income accounting • Own the ZIL finance system stack and maintain integration with policy administration and actuarial data
🎯 Requirements
• Fully qualified accountant: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent • Proven track record in insurance carrier balance-sheet accounting; broker or agency-only experience is insufficient • Demonstrated experience working closely with actuaries • Strong conceptual grasp of reserving, pricing and capital modelling • Familiarity with Solvency II reporting, including QRT, SFCR and ORSA • Experience preparing statutory accounts • Gibraltar or comparable small-jurisdiction regulatory experience is an advantage • Demonstrable experience building, testing and enforcing internal financial controls • Experience managing and developing direct reports in a lean environment • Experience managing external audits end to end • Resilience in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining quality and accuracy • Willingness and ability to hold a GFSC-approved regulated-person position for ZIL • AI-first mindset; willingness to use AI daily, experiment quickly and take ownership of learning • Big 4 audit experience with an insurance client portfolio is a bonus • Hands-on NetSuite experience in an insurance or MGA setting is a bonus
🏖️ Benefits
• Annual performance bonus, linked to company performance and your contribution • Share options • Private medical insurance, for you and your family • Pension • Generous holiday • £1,000 a year to spend on getting to the office or learning something new • Cutting-edge systems and tools • Teams come together every quarter • Whole company gathering once a year • Inclusive community of Zegons across the UK and Europe
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