Job Description
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Birmingham, London, Edinburgh or Telford with time spent in the office and at home.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.
Closing Date: 23rd November 2025
Salary and benefits: £130,000 to £146,600 plus an indicative bonus range of 30%-60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Recruiter: Beth Wood
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The role
As Head of Entity Reporting, you will deliver strong financial controllership for the Group’s regulated and non-regulated subsidiary entities, through the delivery of robust, accurate and timely statutory, regulatory and external financial reporting. The role will provide strong leadership as we look to transform the finance function and transition to a future state characterised by efficient processes, clear accountabilities and accurate and insightful financial information.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Lead a multi-site and multi-disciplinary team delivering the financial, statutory and regulatory reporting for the Group’s Life Companies, other regulated and non-regulated entities, including shared services support for Europe as required.
- Manage the reporting responsibilities for circa 60 operating entities under all applicable reporting bases, including IFRS, UK GAAP, Solvency UK and other applicable reporting regimes.
- Oversight of investment reporting and fair valuation oversight activities for the Group’s financial assets, including illiquid assets.
- Manage the aggregation of entity level actuarial analyses of technical provisions, QRT disclosures and Solvency results.
- Preparation of Board and other governance materials relevant to the entity financial reporting
- Ownership of the control environment operating over the entity reporting processes, to ensure the quality and robustness of the entity financial information, including regular attestation processes and any remediation activities
- Support initiatives to enhance entity reporting processes and respond to wider business needs through a period of significant and complex change for the function.
- Self-identify and deliver opportunities for BAU led continuous improvement in processes and controls.
- Lead the relationship with external auditors for the entity statutory and regulatory reporting within audit scope.
- Work with the Segmental Reporting and Analysis team to ensure there is a robust understanding and analysis of the drivers of the financial results and disclosures for the entities.
- Lead the operational management of a large team, including resourcing, performance management, people development and budget management.
What are we looking for?
- An experienced qualified accountant
- Strong background in financial reporting in a highly regulated environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact with and influence a wide range of stakeholders, including those in Senior management positions
- A strong growth mindset, with a willingness to embrace and drive change and to challenge the status quo.
- Strong people leader with experience of leading large teams through a complex change environment.
We Want To Hire The Whole Version Of You.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.
Find out more about
- Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
- Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us
Senior Managers Certification Regime (SMCR)
Role
This role is covered by the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) as a certified role. Therefore this role is subject to annual certification by Phoenix Group, as well as regulatory compliance standards. Anybody performing this role will be subject to:
- PRA Individual Conduct Standards
- FCA Senior Individual Conduct Rules
Further information on the Senior Managers & Certification Regime can be found on the FCA website.
