This position is responsible for the recording, reconciling, analyzing and reporting of financial information for the various Markel International entities. This position works closely with accounting and finance (A&F) management while also gaining additional independence and responsibilities as a senior-level associate.
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Who we are:
Business Unit overview:
International Finance is responsible for the financial, regulatory, and business reporting of Markel International and its subsidiaries. It is part of Markel Group’s Global Finance Department.
Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
What you’ll be doing:
Providing senior level support & insights with regard to expense reporting and management at Markel International.
This will include:
- Management Information Provision: Delivering high-quality and timely Management Information that summarizes expense performance against plan, prior year, and strategic priorities. This will include presenting and providing key insights and explanations to a wide range of stakeholders, including Executive Management & Senior Business Leaders.
- Taking the lead in streamlining and automating all current expense and headcount related Management Information, utilizing Power BI and other similar tools.
- Ownership of several key tasks and outputs from the monthly and quarterly expense reporting cycles adhering to established deadlines.
- Timely Expense Performance Responses: Addressing all queries related to expense performance accurately and in a timely fashion.
- Business Planning Support for International’s shared & support services: Ensuring timely receipt of necessary inputs from cost centre owners to support International’s business planning cycles. Facilitating effective “play-back” to cost centre owners to ensure ownership of final business plans.
- Partnering with other FP&A team members to support build out of current reporting processes.
- Support for Continuous Process Improvement & Sophistication: Identifying, articulating & implementing opportunities to improve expense reporting efficiencies and enhancements to management information.
Key Skills:
The successful candidate will:
- Qualified or qualified by experience accountant.
- Detailed and knowledge of expense reporting and management ideally in the insurance industry.
- Experienced of working in a large team of Finance professionals responsible for the business reporting of a Global business.
- Excellent data handling and manipulation skills, experience with data workflow tools such as Power BI and Alteryx would be very useful.
- Keenness to learn new skills that can be applied to the role.
What’s in it for you?
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
- Up to 16% company pension scheme,
- Private medical and dental cover, Menopause plan, emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
- Income protection, Life assurance, electric car scheme, travel insurance
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- As well as other great benefits on offer there are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career!
Are you ready to play your part?
If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward, reach their full potential and seize opportunities. You’ll find your fit amongst our diverse global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to think further because we believe that when we strive for better and realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Join us and play your part in something special!
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We will ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.
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