Finance Administrator - Leeds, United Kingdom - The Ardonagh Group
Description
Purpose of the Role
This exciting hybrid opportunity has arisen to join our Client Money team in Leeds to ensure client financial transactions relating to insurance broking are managed and recorded correctly.
This role will involve using your skills and knowledge across several financial accounting disciplines to deliver an effective service to our clients, ensuring that we adequately protect and administer our client's money.
What you will do
This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities.
Collaborating with your Line Manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all of the following and more.
Perform reconciliation and process activities across one or more of the following disciplines:- Client & Insurer Payments,
- Payaways (intermediary payment processes)
- Bordereaux
- Manage your own workload to ensure work is completed to the agreed Service Levels (SLAs) and quality standards.
- Communicate and build relations with other IBA departments and internal Brokers and businesses to investigate and resolve any queried transactions to avoid further delays.
- Be proactively involved and support continuous improvement and lean initiatives.
- Support audit requests for information and process walk-through exercises.
- Ensure compliance with the client and insurer money rules within the FCA Handbook, identifying and recording any breaches of FCA rules.
Who we are looking for
This is an opportunity for a talented, dynamic individual, with strong financial skills and experience ideally with some client money (Cass 5) knowledge.
We are looking for someone has:
- Attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills
- The ability to use own initiative as well as work within a team environment
- The mindset to be adaptable, embrace change and respond positively
- Strength to work under pressure
- Skills to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Financial experience in an insurance broking environment would be desirable.
- GCSE Maths and English (grade 5 or above) or equivalent
- Client Money (Cass 5) knowledge
- Desirable but not essential.
In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family and be joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing.
Some of the other benefits are:
- Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
- Pensions scheme for when you feel it's time to retire
- 24hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
- 1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities
- The Spotlight Awards, where we shine a light on the brightest talent across our group
Ardonagh Group is an equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.
The Ardonagh Group is one of the UK's largest independent brokers with over 9000 dedicated and passionate professionals across the country, and worldwide, facing and dealing with our clients' challenges, offering an enviable range of products, services and solutions to their clients.
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Pay:
Up to £25,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- On what basis are you authorised to work in the UK?
- What are your salary expectations? (required)
- Do you have financial administration experience?
- Are you able to commute to Leeds 2 or 3 times per week?
Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Leeds
Reference ID:
ARD and ARD1002466
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