Accounting Analyst

Title:

Accounting Analyst

Company:

Everest Insurance (Ireland) Spain

Job Category:

Finance

Job Description:

About Everest

Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest), is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in North America, Latin America, the UK & Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs, mentoring opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and Colleague Resource Groups.

Are you looking for an opportunity to elevate you into a career in Accountancy?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Everest Insurance business based in Madrid as an Accounting Analyst. You would be joining an expanding team and organization, offering an opportunity to put in to practice the accounting knowledge you already have whilst developing on this to further progress your career within accounting. You will be closely working with the Financial Operations Manager and a Team of 3 more people, in a very dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring AP mailboxes for multiple branches and processing all payments, support all day-to-day non-technical operational activities within the finance remit, including vendor management, Concur (T&E), Fixed Assets, Leases, Payroll, AP & expense accounting and reconciliations.

• Employee expense processing and accurate recording of such in the general ledger

• Credit card administrative duties including new applications, managing credit limits, following up with cardholders on outstanding reports

• Maintaining and following up on credit card general ledger suspense postings

• Intercompany accounting including ledger posting, settlement of invoices and reconciliations

• Prepare bank reconciliations and follow up on outstanding items to be cleared

• Prepare monthly accruals

• Expense analysis

• Accounts receivable activities including cash management

• Support with external audit queries

• Identify process improvements

Candidate Profile

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Post graduate degree in business/accountancy/finance disciplines with 2-3 years experience

• Interest in pursuing an accountancy qualification (chartered or technician) e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ACA, ATI etc will be desirable. Everest will support tuition for a professional qualification relevant to this role.

• Good experience of accounts payable within Financial Services

• Strong end user computing skills in particular MS Excel

• Communication skills and strong attention to detail

• Good organisational and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work to tight deadlines

• The candidate will be a self-starter, can work on their own initiative as well as being flexible, energetic, and capable of working as part of a team

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture.  

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and In