Senior Accountant, FP&A (12 months contract)

Job Title

Senior Accountant, FP&A (12 months contract)

Job Description

About Us

We are a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with our clients around the world to manage their mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk.  We provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity reinsurance products and services to our clients.  Today, we are one of the largest and most experienced in the longevity market and are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us.  We have a wide range of benefits and regular company activities, including quarterly socials and wellness initiatives.

We are currently midway through a back-office office transformation program (Project Unify) and the company has recently re-organized into a Line of Business structure. The combination of these two events means an exciting time for Financial Planning and Analysis as we modernize our processes and set ourselves up to partner with the business effectively.

Job Description

We are seeking a high-performing Senior Accountant, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to join our global reinsurance business on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract (FTC).

This role covers mainly finance transformation initiatives (Project Unify) supporting the ongoing modernisation of FP&A processes, systems and management information (MI), including development and enhancement of MI reports. Some core FP&A business-as-usual activities may be required to be supported.

This role requires a high degree of autonomy, with the expectation that the individual can independently translate high‑level objectives into tangible reporting and process improvements.

This is a hands on role that requires strong analytical skills, sound judgement and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across FP&A and Project Unify. Understanding the finance transformation changes and the ability to translate these info clear and fit-for-purpose MI reporting outputs, and communicate this understanding with colleagues of differing expertise will be an asset in this role.

Proficiency in Power BI and/or Workiva development and experience working on a finance transformation project would be beneficial.

This position does not carry formal people-management responsibility but plays a key role in influencing outcomes through insight, analysis and effective business partnering.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Transformation

• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives aimed at standardising and improving FP&A processes, systems and reporting.
• Contribute to development of standardised management information and reporting using tools such as PowerBI and Workiva based on data extracted from various reporting systems.
• Support implementation of new planning, forecasting and expense management tools and processes, including requirements definition and testing.

Financial Planning, Analysis & Insight (BAU)

• Support the preparation and delivery of planning and forecasting outputs that provide transparency into performance, risks, and opportunities for senior FP&A leaders and business stakeholders.

Skills & Experience

• Professional accounting designation (CA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) preferred, with typically 3+ years of relevant post‑qualification experience in FP&A, financial analysis or a related finance role.
• Experience working with planning systems and analysis tools, including hands‑on data extraction and management.
• Hands‑on experience designing, building, or enhancing new finance processes and/or management information reports or dashboard.
• Strong independent thinking, problem‑solving skills, and have the confidence to challenge existing approaches to deliver practical and fit‑for‑purpose outcomes.
• Strong accounting knowledge combined with advanced financial analysis and modelling skills.
• Strong communication skills across different disciplines and levels of seniority within the organisation.
• Strong analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience contributing to finance transformation projects is preferred, with the ability to clearly communicate changes to both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating with high degree of autonomy in a fast‑evolving environment with imperfect information and competing priorities.
• Proficiency in Power BI and/or Workiva report development is beneficial.

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

Leave

• 23 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days

• Adoption and fertility leave 

• Generous enhanced parental leave  

Healthcare

• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents

• Group Term Life Insurance coverage of 5x basic annual salary, Group Accelerated CI of 1x annual basic salary and Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment of 3x annual basic salary 

• Optical & Dental benefits 

• Additional flexi benefits

Wellness

• Access to Employee Assistance Program 

• Time off for volunteering 

• Charitable matching of employee donations



As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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