Finance & Project Accountant
Posted 5 days ago by JSS
£65,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Finance & Project Accountant role is a 6-month fixed-term contract based in Birmingham, focusing on finance, claims reporting, and operational projects within a growing insurance and financial services business. The position requires a hands-on approach to drive process improvements and manage various finance-related tasks. The candidate will oversee claims data, project management, payroll, and general accounting functions. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in finance and insurance, looking to contribute to a dynamic team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership and review of claims bordereaux data, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Liaising with internal stakeholders and third parties to validate claims information
- Supporting reporting and analysis of claims performance
- Lead and support finance and operations-focused projects (e.g. process improvements, system changes)
- Drive delivery timelines, stakeholder coordination, and implementation
- Identify opportunities to improve controls, efficiency, and data quality
- End-to-end payroll oversight, working with external providers where applicable
- Ensure accuracy of payroll processing, reconciliations, and related reporting
- Maintain compliance with tax and statutory requirements
- Support month-end close processes including journals, reconciliations, and reporting
- Assist with financial reporting and audit deliverables
- Maintain strong financial controls and documentation
- Contribute to continuous improvement of finance processes and systems
Key Skills:
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Experience within insurance, financial services, or a similar regulated environment
- Strong exposure to claims bordereaux / insurance data
- Demonstrated experience in project management or change initiatives
- Hands-on payroll experience
- Solid grounding in general accounting / financial reporting
- Strong Excel skills and attention to detail
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in a broad, evolving role
Salary (Rate): £65,000.00 yearly
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Finance & Project Accountant Insurance 6 Month FTC
Salary: £55,000 – £65,000
Location: Birmingham - Hybrid Working Options Available
Overview
We are supporting a growing insurance / financial services business in hiring a Finance & Operations Accountant to play a key role across finance, claims reporting, and operational projects. This is a broad and hands-on position suited to someone who enjoys working across multiple areas of finance and driving process improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Claims Bordereaux & Reporting
- Ownership and review of claims bordereaux data, ensuring accuracy and completeness
- Liaising with internal stakeholders and third parties to validate claims information
- Supporting reporting and analysis of claims performance
- Project Management
- Lead and support finance and operations-focused projects (e.g. process improvements, system changes)
- Drive delivery timelines, stakeholder coordination, and implementation
- Identify opportunities to improve controls, efficiency, and data quality
- Payroll
- End-to-end payroll oversight, working with external providers where applicable
- Ensure accuracy of payroll processing, reconciliations, and related reporting
- Maintain compliance with tax and statutory requirements
- General Accounting
- Support month-end close processes including journals, reconciliations, and reporting
- Assist with financial reporting and audit deliverables
- Maintain strong financial controls and documentation
- Contribute to continuous improvement of finance processes and systems
Candidate Profile
Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
Experience within insurance, financial services, or a similar regulated environment
Strong exposure to claims bordereaux / insurance data
Demonstrated experience in project management or change initiatives
Hands-on payroll experience
Solid grounding in general accounting / financial reporting
Strong Excel skills and attention to detail
Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in a broad, evolving role
Apply now or contact chloe.williams@thejssgroup.com for more information.