The Role

The 'Financial Accountant – Balance Sheet & Transformation Support (Regional)' is responsible for supporting the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of balance sheet accounts across Europe, UK and APAC entities through detailed reconciliation, analysis, and issue resolution.

Working closely with the Balance Sheet Lead Accountant, this role executes regional balance sheet cleanup initiatives across European and APAC and supports regional projects for Europe entities, contributing to improved efficiency, standardisation, and control.

In addition, the role has a dotted line reporting to the Financial Accounting Manager – EMEA as they will also provide interim support for Record-to-Report (R2R) activities in the EMEA region, ensuring continuity of critical finance operations during periods of absence.

Please note the working hours for this role are 12pm to 8pm, Monday – Friday.

Key Responsibilities

• Support BS lead with balance sheet cleanup initiatives, including resolving legacy balances, correcting mis-postings, and addressing process gaps.
• Maintain reconciliation schedules, trackers, and status reporting to ensure timely delivery in line with reporting deadlines.
• Monitor and follow up with entity accountants on open items, ensuring proper justification, ageing control, and timely clearance of balances.
• Lead and support project-based balance sheet and reporting cleanup activities for European entities, ensuring alignment with global standards and timelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (R2R, P2P, FP&A, Treasury, and Group Finance) to resolve issues and improve data quality.
• Identify, assess, and escalate risks, unusual balances, and control deficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal policies, and audit requirements.
• Provide interim backup support for EMEA R2R activities (e.g., during maternity leave), including month-end close, journal postings, and reporting tasks.
• Support internal and external audit requests/coordination with accurate and timely documentation when required
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including automation, standardisation, and process optimisation.
• Support knowledge sharing and best practice adoption within the team.
• Carry out Ad Hoc duties and tasks allocated at the discretion of management and that are within the capabilities and scope of the post.
• Demonstrate and champion Charles Taylor Values by ensuring Agility, Integrity, Care, and Accountability and Collaboration.

Required Skills

• Qualified Accountant with 5 years minimum commercial accounting experience preferably in multinational company
• Proven experience in financial management, with a focus on balance sheet analysis.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS accounting principles, financial statements, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and proactive in resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
• Proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to build trust and rapport with all stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and detailed problem-solving skills; able to identify issues and develop effective solutions.
• Effective organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage both BAU and project work.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise and work under a tight schedule, flexible approach to move between tasks continuously and demonstrable experience of working in a fast-paced environment with proven success.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for conveying internal control and risk matters to diverse stakeholders globally
• Ability to speak English fluently and significant experience of working across cultures and borders globally.
• Experience with SUN & Cognos Controller system would be useful but not essential
• Willing to work partially during EMEA hours from 12pm – 8pm

About Us

Founded in 1884 as a mutual insurance association, Charles Taylor began under the leadership of coal merchant Charles Taylor, whose astute management set the stage for growth. Today, we are a global leader providing insurance services and technology solutions with a team of c.4,000 experts across 120+ countries on 6 continents.

Our unmatched depth of specialist expertise, from loss adjusters to forensic accountants, helps the global insurance market to address its challenges. Through our trusted partnerships model, we build long-term, personal relationships with clients based on trust and cooperation. Our powerful technology helps our clients improve their customers’ experience from start to finish. Thanks to our global reach, our clients can access our services wherever they are in the world, whenever they need us.

Our services and solutions support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model, across all major commercial insurance lines serving a blue-chip international customer base that includes insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd's syndicates and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors and corporate insureds. Our Group Business Services (GBS) function supports the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the company ensuring that teams have the tools, systems and support needed to deliver high-quality client solutions. Focused on finance operations, HR services, IT infrastructure, legal and compliance support, and workplace management, the GBS function enables the business to operate with agility, maintain compliance and focus on delivering value to our clients.

Expertise you can trust - for more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com

Why join Charles Taylor?

Charles Taylor prides itself on being a people-centric business. Our culture and values define who we are, what we stand for and how we behave. They guide how we work with our colleagues and our clients, today and in the future. By living our values every day when we come to work, we deliver better results for the world of insurance.

We strive to provide a positive working environment that offers opportunities for professional development and growth across all our business areas. This includes a structured onboarding process, job-specific skills development, online and in-person training, as well as study assistance
for professional qualifications.

Our Values

• Accountability (We take ownership and responsibility)
  We all have a role to play in Charles Taylor’s growth and overall success.
• Agility (We learn, evolve and adapt quickly)
  We anticipate, prepare for and adapt to change; it’s how we stay competitive.
• Care (We are compassionate and human)
  We are approachable and genuinely interested in others.
• Collaboration (We are one)
  We are unique but united in our work.
• Integrity (We do the right thing)
  At all times, we act with responsibility and respect.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We foster an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

We recognise that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is essential in enabling us to deliver better insurance outcomes and fulfilling our responsibilities to clients, colleagues, and the community. We proactively promote and celebrate differences and strive to create an environment where our people feel included and can reach their full potential. We take pride in our inclusive and diverse culture, which is supported by strong partnerships and a transparent, fair recruitment process.

Contact information

Cara Norkett