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Finance Analyst (12 month FTC)

Full Time Accounting Finance Insurance

Job Description

Pension Insurance Corporation (“PIC”) provides secure retirement incomes through comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management, as well as exceptional customer service. Our purpose is to pay the pensions of our current and future policyholders.

As part of the Expense Management Team, you’ll play a key role in overseeing the budgeting, financial accounting, and daily payment management for all group expenses. The team is fast-growing and dynamic, handling a wide variety of payment types and reporting that directly impact the company’s approach to expense management.

In this role, you’ll work closely with Finance Business Partners, focusing on expense accounting and conducting in-depth analyses that support new business initiatives. You’ll collaborate with senior leaders, helping them understand, plan, and take accountability for the costs in their areas. By ensuring accurate cost accounting and delivering clear, insightful reports, your work will drive smarter financial decisions across the company.

Our Company values are expected to be reflected in the delivery and performance of every role.

Specific accountabilities assigned to the role of Finance Analyst within the Reporting and Financial Management team:

  • Supporting the budget and forecast process to drive efficient company growth.
  • Support the monthly close process for cost accounting and purchasing.
  • Provide full lifecycle cost support for change initiatives e.g. new investments and benefits tracking
  • Prepare accurate cost options through excellent PowerPoint presentations.
  • Contribute towards the development of the Expense Business Partnering Strategy and support its delivery across PIC.
  • Deliver excellent stakeholder management for the teams you support.
  • Establish the strong process and reporting discipline to ensure data, reports and quality and timeliness is of a very high standard.
  • Work with colleagues across finance to ensure quality and timely information is received to enable the team to perform at a high standard
  • Help ensure PIC costs are maintained within agreed budgets and controlled
  • Actively work with the rest on the team on process improvements and progress other projects.

Requirements

Knowledge

  • Established knowledge of budgeting and forecasting.
  • Understanding of Financial services cost base.  

 Skills

  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly
  • Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
  • Ability to organise work to meet competing deadlines
  • Highly organised with an excellent eye for detail
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel
  • Great working knowledge of PowerPoint

Experience

  • Qualified chartered accountant / Finalist (CIMA, ACCA etc.)
  • Experience in Financial Services Industry
  • Experience of cost management framework and reporting

Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you’ll have access to some great benefits, including: private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, insurance for Travel, Private Medical, Critical Illness, Life Assurance and Income Protection, and much more.

Pension Insurance Corporation
About Pension Insurance Corporation


About PIC:

The purpose of PIC is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders.

PIC provides secure and stable retirement incomes through leading customer service, comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management. At 30 June 2022, PIC had insured 293,400 pension scheme members and had £44.1 billion in financial investments, accumulated through the provision of tailored pension insurance buyouts and buy-ins to the trustees and sponsors of U.K. defined benefit pension schemes. Clients include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals, and the public sector.

PIC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority (FRN 454345). For further information please visit www.pensioncorporation.com

In essence, we are a simple business: we take on assets transferred from defined benefit pension schemes through buy-ins and buyouts invest them, and use the cashflows generated from these investments to pay our policyholders’ pensions. PIC operates in the Pension Risk Transfer Market.

Our Culture:

PIC employs highly skilled individuals who all work to deliver a common purpose, supported by a culture of innovation and a strong set of values. Our success in hiring new people is due to our focus on creating a purposeful and stimulating working environment, where individual contributions are recognised within a collaborative, team-based effort.

Work Benefits:

We want our employees to be appropriately rewarded for their outstanding work, and PIC offers competitive remuneration packages and a generous range of benefits.

These include:

  • hybrid working model
  • competitive pension contributions
  • private medical cover
  • travel insurance
  • season ticket loans
  • access to 24/7 mental health support through an employee assistance programme
  • a Cycle to Work scheme and a dedicated secure cycle space at our London office
  • death in service benefit
  • save as You Earn (“SAYE”) scheme. Allows employees to build up blocks of shares in the Company. The scheme is open to all employees on an annual basis
  • discretionary family leave enhancements including up to 26 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity

Diversity and Inclusion:

Diversity of thought is critical to PIC’s success, helping us to deliver our purpose in an innovative way. PIC demonstrably values individuals regardless of background or experience. It is important for us that our people can discuss cultural and other issues that are important to them in a respectful and engaging way.

PIC has been the lead sponsor for the Actuarial Mentoring Programme for the past five years. The initial aim was to retain female actuaries in the profession, and it now has a wider D&I remit. We also have our own mentoring programme, offering opportunities to people across all professions. Our Aspiring Managers Programme has a target of 50% female participants.

In 2021 we created our own Early Careers Academy, which encompasses the 10,000 Black Interns Programme and our own Apprenticeship Programme. Both these programmes focus on attracting diverse talent.

PIC also partners with LGBT Great, Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (GAIN) and RedStart, which is a charity providing financial education to children from disadvantaged areas.

We joined Women in Banking and Finance to provide our female talent with access to learning, networks, and development opportunities, as well as enabling us to learn from other member organisations on how we can continue to keep improving as an inclusive employer.

Workplace Initiatives

Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave?

Yes

Leadership development programs?

Yes

Mentoring programs?

Yes

Coaching programs?

Yes

Employee-led diversity networks?

Yes

Internal women’s networking groups?

Yes

Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage?

Yes

No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary:

Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave:

No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary:

Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave:

Gender pay gap reporting information (2021) (UK):

Average pay gap:

18.4%

Median pay gap:

6.8%

Average bonus gap:

1.1%

Median bonus gap:

23.4%

Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter?

N/A

Targets to raise the number of women in leadership?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership?

N/A

Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index?

N/A


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