Executive Financial Reporting Manager

3 weeks ago

Dublin, Ireland Irish Life Group Services Limited Full time

Company: Irish Life Group Services Limited

- Full Time 12 month Fixed Term Contract position
- Hybrid role based in our City Centre offices

What we offer

We have embraced a hybrid working model for most of our positions, which means that you can enjoy a balanced approach of working from home for part of the week and working from the office for the remainder of the week.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries and bonuses, robust Learning and Development support, excellent Defined Contribution pension and comprehensive Wellbeing initiatives and support to name but a few.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the preparation of, and facilitating the review of, financial and regulatory reporting for companies within the Irish division (Irish Life Assurance, Irish Life Health, Irish Life Investment managers), and the centrally controlled holding companies, Irish Life Group and Canada Life Ireland Holding Company.

What you will help us to achieve

As the Executive Finance Reporting Manager, this role will involve:

1. The preparation of EU-IFRS statutory financials to meet Irish regulatory requirements, Solvency II quarterly and yearly returns to the CBI and C-IFRS consolidated financials for GWL reporting purposes, monthly, quarterly and annually within deadline.
2. The day to day management of the relationship with external auditors.
3. The day to day management of the relationship with GWL finance counterparts.
4. Assessment and adoption of new reporting standards including accounting, statutory and regulatory rules/requirements.
5. Running group wide financial development projects, for example the implementation of the new financial reporting aspects of Solvency 2.
6. Preparing financial updates and reports to the Board Audit Committees and Executive teams.
7. Control and manage, as the business owner, the integrity of all financial systems adopted for reporting group wide (eg, SAP, Workiva, Smartsheets).
8. Ensure that there is a strong control environment across all accounting teams within the Irish Life Group.
9. Ensures accounting and regulatory developments which may have an impact on Irish Life and other entities within the Irish Division are identified, planned and adopted appropriately in line with implementation dates.
10. Is the lead technical accountant in the Irish Division and, using their team, provides support and guidance to other Irish division financial controllers.
11. Ensure industry developments in financial reporting standards and associated technology are assessed, associated issues addressed and adoption strategy proposed and agreed with the Group Financial Controller.

What you will need to be successful in the role

The ideal candidate will have/be:

1. A qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA qualification) with 10+ years PQE.
2. Experience in insurance financial accounting and group reporting would be essential.
3. Proven track record in the identification, assessment and implementation of new financial reporting standards and their adoption.
4. Must be highly self-motivated, assertive and have a proven ability to initiate, develop, implement and manage project deliverables at a senior level.
5. Ability to achieve results and deliver through collaboration across multi-disciplined teams.
6. Proven technical financial accounting skills with experience in managing the assessment and adoption of new reporting standards in a regulated environment.
7. Excellent analytical and problem solving ability.
8. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
9. Strong end user computing skills in particular MS Excel and PowerPoint.
10. Held executive level roles for at least 5 years.
11. Financially articulate and have a clear ability to read financial trends within the business.
12. Awareness of control environments within financial systems and ability to address weakness.
13. Strong track record in successfully leading finance teams.
14. Ability to demonstrate their ability to work under pressure and still deliver positive results.
15. Demonstrate an ability and track record of building effective working relationships at all levels of an organisation.
16. Ability to understand new issues quickly and clearly.
17. Highly self-motivated individual, a strong communicator, capable of building & maintaining excellent relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing people around a common set of objectives.

About us

Irish Life is one of Ireland’s largest financial institutions with a presence across a range of financial services markets. We are one of Ireland’s leading financial services groups with over 1.5 million customers. For over 80 years, we’ve been helping people to look after their life insurance, pension and investment needs, and more recently their health insurance.

It is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies.

We are proud of our culture of developing and supporting the growth and professional development of our people. The focus has resulted in a team of top talent with high standards, positioning us at the forefront of our industry.

Irish Life is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. We have created an environment of inclusion and growth to help people achieve their potential, to ensure they can bring their whole selves to work and to feel valued. We celebrate diversity of thought and perspective and want all of our employees to feel valued, respected and supported.

We have built a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees and strive to ensure that our behaviours, processes and practices are aligned to this culture.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process please contact lifecareers@irishlife.ie and we will be delighted to ensure you are fully supported to be your best.

ILGL supports Equal Opportunity and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

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