Financial Controls Accountant

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🕒 6 days ago

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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CFC

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💳 Fintech

Insurance • Cybersecurity • Fintech

CFC is a global insurance company offering specialist insurance products to over 130,000 businesses. CFC provides a wide range of insurance coverages, including cyber insurance, environmental liability, intellectual property protection, management liability, medical malpractice, product recall, professional liability, property and casualty, terrorism, and transaction liability. They focus on emerging and technology-based risks, offering innovative solutions for digital healthcare, fintech, media, and entertainment, as well as manufacturing and more. CFC is recognized for proactive cyber security protection and market-leading cyber incident response solutions.

📋 Description

• Maintain and improve the financial controls framework (e.g., risk & control matrices, process narratives, control registers). • Support period-end close controls, including review of journals, reconciliations, and key estimates (as applicable). • Oversee balance sheet integrity through strong reconciliation governance, ageing analysis, and action tracking. • Test and monitor controls (design and operating effectiveness), document outcomes, and agree remediation with control owners. • Lead remediation of control deficiencies, including root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions. • Drive standardisation and process improvement across Record-to-Report and related finance processes. • Provide controls guidance and training to Finance and budget holders to promote a strong risk and compliance culture. • Support internal and external audit activity (walkthroughs, evidence collation, and action follow-up). • Support new initiatives and system changes by assessing control impacts and embedding appropriate controls (including UAT support where relevant).

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent). • Experience in financial accounting, financial controls, and/or audit (industry or practice). • Hands-on month-end close experience, including balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting processes. • Strong understanding of internal controls and finance governance (including policy and compliance). • Comfort working with ERP/finance systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite) and strong Excel skills. • Analytical, detail-oriented approach with the ability to identify control gaps and root causes. • Clear documentation and communication skills, with the confidence to partner and challenge constructively. • Well-organised with strong follow-through and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

🏖️ Benefits

• **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.