Financial Controls Accountant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Reporting To: Kris Roepke

Description

We're looking for a Financial Controls Accountant to support the design, operation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of our financial control environment. Working closely with Finance and stakeholders across the business, you'll help ensure accurate financial reporting, robust balance sheet governance, and strong compliance with internal policies and external requirements.

About the role

Your main responsibilities for this role will involve but are not limited to:

• Maintain and improve the financial controls framework (e.g., risk & control matrices, process narratives, control registers).
• Support period-end close controls, including review of journals, reconciliations, and key estimates (as applicable).
• Oversee balance sheet integrity through strong reconciliation governance, ageing analysis, and action tracking.
• Test and monitor controls (design and operating effectiveness), document outcomes, and agree remediation with control owners.
• Lead remediation of control deficiencies, including root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Drive standardisation and process improvement across Record-to-Report and related finance processes.
• Provide controls guidance and training to Finance and budget holders to promote a strong risk and compliance culture.
• Support internal and external audit activity (walkthroughs, evidence collation, and action follow-up).
• Support new initiatives and system changes by assessing control impacts and embedding appropriate controls (including UAT support where relevant).

About you

To be considered for this role you will need to bring:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in financial accounting, financial controls, and/or audit (industry or practice).
• Hands-on month-end close experience, including balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and finance governance (including policy and compliance).
• Comfort working with ERP/finance systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite) and strong Excel skills.
• Analytical, detail-oriented approach with the ability to identify control gaps and root causes.
• Clear documentation and communication skills, with the confidence to partner and challenge constructively.
• Well-organised with strong follow-through and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Core Values

Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything:
We're never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.

Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.