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£90,000 + Benefits

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Avencia Consulting are partnered with a well known Reinsurer based in the City, who are looking to hire a Group Reporting Accountant to join their London team!

We are keen to speak to Accounting professionals working in the insurance industry or in Audit partnering with Insurance clients.

The role

Reporting into the Group Reporting Manager, this is an exciting opportunity for a PQ or newly qualified Accountant to join a high performing team where you will influence multiple senior stakeholders.

You will be rewarded wit support to professional development whilst gaining on the job training by your manager and the team to upskill in accounting standards and be exposed to ad hoc projects.

Key accountabilities

• Assist with the preparation of monthly and quarterly management accounts, KPIs and financial supplements for Group of Companies
• Assist with the preparation of monthly consolidation, liaising with other finance teams and IT support as required
• Assist with the preparation of monthly accounting entries to record the financial results of the MGAs, including consolidation adjustments, minority interest calculations and the annual VIE assessments.
• Assist with the preparation of the Group US GAAP financial statements
• Assist with the coordination and production of the financial statements of the Group.
• Assist with the coordination and work with auditors to prepare the VAT and CT entity returns.
• Assist with the preparation of the monthly reporting timetable to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Draft accounting papers supporting the financial statement preparation and interpret new accounting standards and draft papers summarizing their impact on the Group
• Assist with the preparation and posting of certain transactions including share-based payments, as well as discussing new transactions with relevant accounting teams.
• Ownership of historical financial numbers, providing input & support to other teams where necessary
• Assist in the preparation of benchmarking financial performance against peer group
• Assist with internal and external audit providing information as requested, responding to queries, ensuring operation of financial reporting controls, and effectively supporting the overall audit processes
• Maintain and improve internal controls and procedures documentation
• Keep the Group Reporting Manager fully informed of the status of the projects assigned, as well as relevant accounting-related issues that may arise from such projects
• Ad hoc projects as required

Skills & experience

• Newly qualified or nearly qualified towards professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Minimum of 3 years' experience preferably gained in an insurance/reinsurance environment
• Knowledge and experience of US GAAP for insurance accounting
• Knowledge of relevant accounting software (experience with Aqilla or Anaplan preferred but not required)
• Experience of WDesk preferred
• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Suite of applications
• Proven financial, analytical and organisational skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of the finance team and other key stakeholders across different functions within the organisation

Bookkeeper - Accountancy Practice

Our client is a well-established Chartered Certified Accountancy Practice, offering services including self-assessment, company tax guidance, and general accountancy support. With 30+ staff across 3-4 offices, they provide tailored, software-based accounting solutions to over 50 clients - and growing click apply for full job details

The team operates within a modern, stabilised framework built on Next click apply for full job details

The role will involves leading a team to manage contracts, planning and delivering proposals and managing the delivery of projects. This role is critical to the growth of a new business area for Expleo and represents an opportunity for personal career growth based on successful delivery.

• Leading the Engineering teams: Lead the team to delivery, monitoring performance, facilitating growth and ensure the team to achieve the targeted objectives.
• Delivery: Will ensure delivery performance (contract, deliverables, workloads), and quality (RFT, OQD, OTD & CSAT) of a portfolio of projects and bids.
• Business Development: Working with Business Development Director, Chief Engineers and Capability teams to identify opportunities and to support proposals/bids, which address customer needs in a highly competitive market.
• Managing the team, partners, suppliers and clients: Oversee contact between the team members, project managers, clients, suppliers and partners. Apply communication skills to inform clients about project progress and engage and instruct team members.
• Negotiating and managing contracts: Support in negotiating and managing contracts with clients and suppliers, ensuring the team meets all needs to foster positive relationships with external parties.
• Project Planning: Define the technical objectives of projects and establish delivery hours, cost and timelines. This involves determining the resources and milestones to achieve project success.
• Manage Resources: Monitor expenditures, allocate resources efficiently, ensure that the projects are adequately resourced and enable the recruitment process working closely with talent acquisition and Country Lead.
• Project Reporting: Working with the PM community, ensure that Project Tracking processes are completed and the Project Finance Reviews are performed in line with company process and to the standard and frequency set by the Head of Projects
• Conducting risk assessments: Conduct risk assessments & complexity assessments to anticipate potential project challenges. Identifying risks early ensures that we can develop mitigation strategies and ensure a project's success.
• Implementing technical regulatory standards: Engineering managers enforce technical standards to maintain quality and consistency across projects.
• Finding solutions for technical issues: When technical problems arise, lead in finding viable solutions. Utilise understanding of systems to help identify issues and devise efficient solutions.
• Staff Development: Assess and monitoring the performance of staff on the project and provide feedback to the UK Capability Leads and People Services Manager.

• Engineering Degree/Diploma would be advantageous (beneficial IPMA/Prince/APM/PMI qualified)

• Customer-focused balanced with recognising the need for governance
• Ability to establish and meet deadlines, multi-task and prioritise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong planning and delivery orientation
• Full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies

• Naval Architecture / Mechanical Engineering / Marine industry experience.
• Experience within service and support for UK projects
• Experience processes across the CADMID life cycle
• Proven and significant experience in an Operational, Functional or Programme leadership position.
• Technical and Commercial acumen.
• Experience of performance management of people & teams.
• KPI ownership & delivery

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

Due to significant project and framework wins we currently have 3 vacancies for ambitious Geo-environmental Consultants and Engineering Geologist Consultants at either Consultant or Senior Consultant level to join our teams in each of the following offices Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh.These are excellent opportunities for ambitious individuals to join our established Geo-environment & Mining Bu click apply for full job details

Finance Systems Assurance Manager £40 per hour PAYE 24 Months 37hrs per week Frimley or Glascoed (Hybrid working - highly flexible) Inside IR35 We are seeking an experienced Finance Systems Assurance Manager to lead on financial systems assurance, corporate reform compliance, and internal control excellence click apply for full job details

Goodman Masson are thrilled to be partnered with Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to find their new Director of Finance position!

PRI is backed by the UN and is the world's leading proponent of responsible investment. It works to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. They are looking for a strong leader to take responsibility for overseeing all financial aspects of PRI's entities and driving the company's financial strategy and planning together with the Chief Operating Officer.

This role will cover the responsibility for assessing the financial performance of PRI as well as possible risks and investments by retaining constant awareness of the company's financial position and inform Executive Team when to act to prevent problems.

Managing the Head of Financial Administration (who has two direct reports) and three Financial Planning and Analysis Analysts, the main responsibilities include:

• Leading on the Finance Business Partnering approach by providing financial support and planning, including budgeting, forecasting and business analysis to the Executive Team.
• Overseeing support provided to budget holders by the FP&A analysts with the annual budgeting process and monthly forecasts.
• Leading the consolidated forecasting process to ensure accurate and timely forecasts for the business.
• Identifying and developing financial key performance indicators to improve Executive Team insight.
• Playing a key role in the annual planning and budgeting process in collaboration with the Director of Strategy & Transformation.
• Overseeing the preparation of timely and detailed reports on financial performance on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis for Executive Team and Board.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong leadership skills and well-developed people management skills.
• An ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualification
• A proven understanding of Business Partnering within Finance, how to embed this approach and the benefits this brings
• The ability to budget and forecast at an organisational level including understanding and mitigating risks
• Outstanding analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent networking, stakeholder management, relationship management and interpersonal skills. Ability to forge long-term relationships and drive decision-making in diverse, multi-stakeholder groups.
• A collaborative and consultative approach to working with others & commitment to fostering an inclusive environment locally and across colleagues globally
• Language skills other than English.

Please reach out to if you are keen to discuss this position further.

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.

Workshop Fitter - Hagley Starting Salary: 35,000 + Quarterly Bonuses Monday to Friday Permanent Position Join a leading global name in the automotive industry as a Workshop Fitter, contributing to the maintenance and repair of HGVs. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing, reputable organisation known for its modern facilities and clean, well-equipped workshops. Working Hours for the Workshop Fitter - Monday - Friday, standard hours

What's in it for you as our Workshop Fitter?

• Starting salary circa 35,000
• Quarterly production bonuses
• Overtime available and paid at a premium rate
• Access to a private healthcare scheme
• Stable, full-time, weekday hours with a well-established employer

Your Role: As a Workshop Fitter, you'll be working on vehicles, focusing on both bodywork and chassis-mounted equipment. Your daily tasks will include:

• Disassembling and assembling body-mounted components
• Diagnosing faults on chassis-mounted systems
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings
• Drilling, assembling, and fitting both interior and exterior fixtures
• Carrying out light fabrication tasks - measuring, cutting, and grinding

What we're looking for: Candidates with experience in the following areas are encouraged to apply:

• Vehicle body building or coachbuilding
• Plant engineer
• Trailer engineer
• Welder/Fabricator

If you are interested in this workshop fitter role, please apply now or contact Grace at E3 Recruitment .

Engineering Manager

Andover

Permanent

Up to £60,000

Engineering Manager required by highly successful and market leading manufacturing company based in Andover. The successful Engineering Manager will play a key role in the business providing leadership to the Engineering Team whilst ensuring that new products are introduced and manufactured cost effectively click apply for full job details

Senior Cost Consultant / Cost Engineer Defence Consultancy

Salary - £45K-£65K negotiable plus many benefits including bonus, medical, pension.

Location Bristol

Our client if a successful professional services and technology partner to global, defence, energy, space, maritime, and intelligence & communications programmes.

As a Cost Consultant you will be delivering technical consulting projects within the defence sector. You will be providing detailed analysis of data and costs to assist your client s industry make better decisions. This may be working in customer teams to support procurement decisions with analytical thinking and outcomes, modelling of operational performance and sustainment, or historical analysis to support learning lessons from previous operations.

Responsibilities for Senior Cost Engineer Consultant will include:

• Provide detailed analysis to support key decisions within the project teams.
• Identifying and bidding for and winning future work within your client s industry.
• Building new relationships and maintaining the relationships with current customers.
• Using and developing problem structuring methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turn-around analysis or using one of the company s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.

Essential Requirements re role of Senior Cost Consultant /Cost Engineer :

Proven experience in a Cost Engineering or Analyst role within a P3M environment

Educated to degree level or equivalent with a professional qualification (e.g. CCEA, CPCostE, CEng)

Experience working in the defence sector/ military.

Good knowledge of statistics in support of parametric modelling, sampling and risk analysis.

Knowledge of statistical software packages such as R .

Using logical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems for the client.

Strong Microsoft Excel skills to support analysis of data.

Cost Estimating

Risk Management, Risk Analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM)

Experience in analysing project data (cost/risk/schedule).

Working in a client s team to influence strategic decision makers whilst delivering practical solutions.

Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills.

Be dependable, committed and have a genuine enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of a successful business.

Understanding the military environment and MOD management structures. Knowledge of MOD approvals, the MOD acquisition cycle and Defence lines of Development

Experience of Identifying, bidding and winning future work

Candidates from a technical consultancy background working within the MOD sector.

Ability to travel to client sites across the UK as required.

Other requirements Candidates must have existing right to live and work in the UK.

Candidates also need to hold a current SC Clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo security check (SC level)

Senior Cost Consultant / Cost Engineer Consultant MOD Consultancy

An international market leader require an interim Head of Group Financial Reporting to lead accurate and timely consolidated Group reporting including off ledger entities and implementing financial controls to comply with internal policy and regulatory requirements. You will possess excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills to optimise financial performance and mitigate risks click apply for full job details

Business Unit: Product & Channels Salary range: £ 72,000 to £91,000 per annum - DOE Location: Hybrid - with occasional travel to a UK Virgin Money Hub when required. Contract type: Permanent (full time)

Our Team

Our Products & Channels CIO mission is clear: combine engineering excellence, top-tier delivery practices, and outstanding service design to create superb products and services. We're on a journey to become the UK's best digital bank, focusing on digital customer journeys, engineering excellence, and empowering our people.

The Product & Channels (P&C) team leads client-facing apps, web services and contact centre capability. We're transforming to enhance collaboration, encourage curiosity, and streamline operations for exceptional customer experiences. With a purpose-driven approach, we're making money happier for our customers, ensuring better security, stability, and performance.

A Senior Infrastructure Tech Lead plays a vital role in leading the delivery of infrastructure migrations, identifying customer issues, measuring and analysing journey and infrastructure performance, and promoting engineering excellence with a clear focus on building and supporting a resilient infrastructure stack.

What you'll be doing

• Design and deploy secure, scalable, and robust infrastructure patterns for application and database tiers.
• Define the migration strategy for the legacy application tier and database technology.
• Implement and optimize the on prem and public cloud infrastructure for best cost, performance, and security.
• Manage and troubleshoot infrastructure issues in production and non-production platforms.
• Collaborate with IT security, Risk and control team to monitor and ensure the infrastructure security.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure migration techniques, including bulk data migration into the cloud.
• Perform cloud server tasks, including security configurations, troubleshooting and evergreen patching implementations.
• Work closely with the development, Solution architect and infrastructure team to ensure cloud solutions meet company standards of reliability.
• Implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
• Manage disaster recovery, service introduction for the new platform and resilience testing for the infrastructure stack.

We need you to have

• Proven leadership experience in a technical role with a strong background in driving technical delivery.
• 5+ years working in complex infrastructure build specifically cloud migration of application and database, a working knowledge of API platforms
• 5+ years working in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Openshift
• Experience in managing the traditional cloud-based databases such as oracle , IBM DB2, ßAWS RDS, Azure SQL and COSMOS DB.
• Proven experience of leading migration and infrastructure design
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex migration challenges and provide a migration approach with minimal customer impact
• Experience in developing and implementing performance measurement frameworks.
• Financial management skills and experience managing team resources.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to fostering an environment of innovation and continuous improvement.

It's a bonus if you have but not essential

• An understanding of the financial industry, regulatory requirements, and security standards relevant to digital banking.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year .
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money.' Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.

Advert close date is 6th June 2025

Mechanical Plant Fitter £30,000 to £40,000 + Specialist training + Overtime opportunities + Benefits Burnley, Lancashire (Commutable from: Manchester, Preston, Blackburn, Halifax, Bury, Rochdale) Are you an Engineer / Fitter, with experience working with plant / machinery, looking to join a leading company, where you will enjoy a stable Monday to Friday role, with specialist industry training on n click apply for full job details

Production Leader

We are working with a well-developed company who have a focused manufacturing capability based on CNC technology. In addition to traditional standalone machining centres, they have 6 sliding head CNC lathes that allow complete production of finished components from raw bar material. We are recruiting for an experienced Production Leader to join them in their facility in Rotherham.

Key skilled required of the Production Leader:

• Must have at least 12 months experience in a supervisory role
• The Production Leader must have experience with CNC Turner and CNC Milling
• Experience as a Setter Operator will be required
• Ability to write programs from drawings - at a high level of competence
• Some experience of managing small teams
• Ability to run and meet schedules, keep the shift moving, employees motivated etc.
• Experience of medium to high volume engineering background
• Experience of cutting variety of materials - from basic carbon plate, Nicol, duplex etc

The successful Production Leader will be very hands on and will be managing a team of 6 employees. This is full time permanent position and working the late afternoon shift only. In return my client are offering excellent hourly rate inclusive of shift allowance, free on site park and other benefits to be confirmed.

Shift: 14.30pm-23:00 Mon - Thursday, 13:00-20:30 Friday

Overtime is paid at 1.5 x total rate (on both basic + bonus).

Please send your CV for immediate consideration to Technical Ltd.

Sector Growth Manager (M&E / Water Treatment) Nottingham / Midlands / Hybrid / Remote £55,000 - £65,000 + Excellent Bonus + Car (EV) + Home/Field based + pension + career development Are you a Technical Sales professional from an M&E or Water Industry background looking to work for one of the UKs leading providers of M&E products and services to the commercial construction sector? Are you looking for click apply for full job details

• Develop and implement quantitative models and algorithms to support trading and investment strategies
• Collaborate with traders, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders to identify areas where quantitative analysis can provide insights and support decision-making
• Lead the development of proprietary models and algorithms to support the company's trading and investment strategies
• Communicate results and findings to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
• Stay current with industry developments and new technologies

• Advanced degree in a related field such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Python, R, C++ or Java
• Strong understanding of mathematical and statistical concepts, especially in finance
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment
• Strong experience in financial markets, risk management and time series analysis.

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a quantitative role in a financial services company
• Experience with financial modelling or in the financial industry is a must
• Background in equity or credit preferred
• Full stack development or Secdb/Slang experience preferred

Financial Controller - near St Albans, Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City - Hertfordshire Acquisitive 30m turnover SME in Consumer Goods, Technology, Retail and Manufacturing Excellent growth opportunity for a Financial Controller.

This is a newly created role due to the growth of the business. Reporting to the MD and a part time FD, the role has excellent growth opportunities and obvious progression.

Both hands-on and forward-looking, this Financial Controller role will include:

• Provision of management information to the Board
• Management of a finance team of three staff
• Month-end group reporting and management accounting
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Working capital management / FX issues
• Development of systems and controls
• Oversee year-end and audit
• Liaising with banks and external advisors
• Ad hoc involvement in projects and acquisitions

Exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager / Financial Controller looking to progress in a growing business. A qualified accountant is preferred (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ACMA) although qualified by relevant experience (QBE) will be considered.