Group Financial Reporting Accountant (Contractor), Finance Transformation Programme at Pension Insurance Corporation

London, England, United Kingdom

This role is within the Finance Transformation programme, helping to shape and implement the financial reporting solution.

- Leading on key change projects, including the Finance Transformation Programme, representing the reporting team to shape and deliver a robust solution for the external and internal reporting requirements.
- Implementing the long-term solution for all external reporting produced by the Finance function including:
- Year End Statutory Accounts for the PIC Group and PIC plc (and oversight of the other UK reporting entities).
- The year-end publicly available regulatory return (SFCR) for the Insurance Company and Group.
- The half yearly and annual external reporting to shareholders and/or debt holders; and
- Quarterly and annual regulatory returns for the Insurance Company and the Group.
- Acting as Finance SME on company-wide projects or initiatives.
- Creating policies and procedures around the new reporting solution to ensure that all internal and external reporting is sufficiently well controlled and is working efficiently.

Pension Insurance Corporation

Group Financial Reporting Accountant (Contractor), Finance Transformation Programme

This role sits within the Group Financial Reporting team that encompasses all aspects of eternal reporting for the Group and includes IFRS and other regulatory reporting together with involvement in other projects.

Group Financial Reporting Accountant (Contractor), Group Finance

- Ownership of the end-to-end consolidation of the Group’s financial results, including liaison with business units, co-ordination of consolidation system data (HFM) and review and challenge of submissions.
- Preparation of external reporting disclosures , including quantitative data and narrative explanations.
- Preparation and development of analytics to provide insight for senior management and support internal and external reporting products, liaising with other head office teams especially Financial Performance, Investor Relations and Group Risk.
- Supporting on the project of upgrading the Global reporting system (OneStream).

Prudential plc

Group Financial Reporting Accountant (Contractor), Group Finance

This role covers all aspects of year end reporting and performance including external reporting, internal management reporting and regulatory reporting.
- Preparation of reliable, timely and complete year end management reports with analytical review and variance commentaries.
- Preparation of year end statutory accounts under IFRS insurance, holding investment management and dormant companies.
- Preparation and posting of journal entries into the SUN System general.
- Establishing good working relationships with a number of stakeholders across the organisation to work effectively across different teams as well as external auditors and consultants.
- Supporting the finance team in creating an environment of continuous improvement to ensure that all reporting is conducted to the highest possible standard, within set deadlines whilst meeting efficiency requirements.

Foresters Financial Ltd

Senior Financial Reporting Accountant (Contractor), Group Finance

Reporting to the Head of Consolidation, the core focus of the role is to deliver creating a unified Finance function to help manage the merger of the two businesses and the de-merger from the Prudential Group; creating a dynamic and well controlled Finance function for the future.

- Preparation of the Group’s consolidated results, including review of business inputs, eliminations and consolidation adjustments.
- Preparation of the Group IFRS financial statements and notes to the accounts.
- Implementation of the Group’s Solvency II reporting, including quarterly and annual QRTs.
- Supporting the Group consolidation system and change processes, working closely with the Finance Systems support team.
- Leading the delivery of initiatives required as part of the demerger project to ensure Group reporting processes meet all reporting and control requirements of a newly listed PLC.
- Liaising with the external auditors, ensuring that timescales are communicated and agreed and the auditors’ requirements are met to ensure timely completion of their work.

M&G Prudential

Senior Consolidation Accountant (Contractor), Group Finance

- Preparation of the monthly MI reporting deliverables to the Group Finance board.
- Deliver the 5-year annual planning cycle and validating assumptions / drivers by working with the global businesses.
- Review the monthly rolling forecast and analysing the key drivers versus budget.
- Working with Finance Change Delivery on developing and implementing solutions required for BAU reporting.
- Own the strategic investment initiatives reporting process.
- Supporting the business on key initiatives (IFRS17 implementation).

HSBC

Senior FP&A Manager

- Preparation of Group finance board materials including detailed financial analysis and reporting.
- Implementing TM1 (planning tool) including data migration and testing.
- Liaise with stakeholders to provide detailed analysis on variances against budget and forecast.
- Liaise with Bermuda based underwriters on premium planning.

Fidelis Insurance

Group Planning Accountant (Contractor), FP&A Team

Responsible for engaging with Group functions and oversight of BU finance teams to prepare and review internal and external deliverables covering all aspects of IFRS and Solvency II reporting, including to Aviva Board and committees.

Senior Manager, Solvency II Reporting
August 2014 – Present

- Managed implementation of Solvency II reporting into BAU, including IT system development and ongoing process transformation.
- Market engagement lead supporting the delivery of Solvency II submissions to Group.
- Subject matter expert on the quarterly and annual Assets QRTs.
- Assisted in integrating the Friends Life integration (April 2015) into BAU reporting.
- A dedicated point of contact for PRA related queries on Aviva Solvency II submissions.
- Assisted the Group zero based budgeting initiative covering circa £4bn of operating expenses.

Finance Manager, Group Finance
August 2011 – August 2014

- Supporting the external financial reporting deliverables, including:
-  Full year and half year financial statements / analyst pack
-  Quarterly interim management statements
-  Investor presentations
-  Ad-hoc public financial disclosure
- Providing value add analysis and insight into the results of the businesses.
- Communicating key messages to management and internal stakeholders which is used to inform the messages external stakeholders.
- Working closely with a number of key stakeholders including the Group Chief Accounting Officer, Investor Relations, Media Relations, Group Finance and BU finance teams.
- Supporting in the reporting requirements to the Group Executive Committee, Disclosure and Audit Committee.

Aviva

Senior Finance Manager

In late 2010, RBS sold WorldPay to Bain Capital and Advent International. The role involved supporting RBS and the new owners in the divestment of WorldPay and the Group reporting of the new standalone company.

Finance Manager, Group consolidation and reporting

- Involved in the divestment of Global Merchant Services (WorldPay) from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
- Manage month-end reporting of consolidated financial reporting.
- Collate and review monthly business commentary for reporting, ensuring any variances to budget, forecast and prior year are explained.
- Produce monthly reporting pack for the Executive Board and Finance Board.
- Manage the delivery of budgets and forecasts for WorldPay to meet finance reporting requirements and deadlines to Group.
- Responsible for ensuring WorldPay consolidated financial position for actual, budgets and forecasts are submitted to the reporting system.

Royal Bank of Scotland

Finance Manager

Finance Business Partner (Home Finance – UK Mortgage Business)

Home Finance provides mortgages to customers across the UK. The business manages assets in excess of £75bn and delivers income of c£500m per annum for the Retail Banking division. The role manages month end, budgeting, forecasting and BAU reporting and ad hoc project work.
- Co-ordinate with the financial control team, whilst reporting variance analysis.
- Driving the Revised Annual Forecast, liaising with the business teams to ensure all risks and opportunities are covered.
- Deliver month end management reporting, new business reporting and board packs with appropriate commentaries.
- Own the quarterly external reporting for Home Finance division through insightful and commercial commentary.
- Provide key market share analysis through market share reporting and external competitor reporting.
- Process improvement on various monthly tasks to enable faster and more accurate reporting.

Barclays

Finance Business Partner

- Completing the Group semi-annual property planning round.
- Delivering a 3-year Group level property portfolio plan which identifies options and recommendations for value creation.
- Forming recommendations to Group and to customers to maximise synergies between customer requirements.
- Undertake financial modelling requirements for the analysis of property and property related expenditure requests which Group and cluster requirements.

Property Management Analyst

- Developing and reporting against the measures used to drive performance of the business area. These include balanced scorecard, financial flight paths and action plans.
- Analysing performance against target, producing commentaries and reports with recommendations.
- Assisting the Business Partners in the preparation of short term plans, medium term plans detailed budgets and business cases.
- Preparation of quarterly executive dialogue, interim / full year results.
- Working with the business clusters to ensure that financial budgets are translated into sales targets that are used to drive performance in the sales teams.
- Provide forecasts during the year against budget.
- Translating medium term plans into generic performance plan targets.

Ahmed Chishti