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Finance Administrator

  • Posted February 10, 2025
  • Up to £30000 per annum + +10 Bonus
  • Looking for a strong finance individual with great experience on dealing with transactional accounts, analysing and reconciling the data.
  • Permanent

Finance Administrator

Industry: Financial Services
Buckinghamshire Office (5 days on site)

£30,000 + 10% Bonus

Key Responsibilities:

* Support daily and month-end tasks like accruals, prepayments, reporting, and system admin.
* Perform daily and monthly reconciliations accounts ensuring accuracy and meeting deadlines.
* Work with other teams to resolve queries.
* Assist with accounts payable/receivable, bank reconciliations, VAT returns, and processing payments.
* Maintain process and procedure notes.
* Support the finance team with ad-hoc tasks.
* Notify regulators of any required matters.

Key Skills / Experience: Financial Analysis, Accounts Reconciliation, Process Improvement, Team working, Stakeholder Management.

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    Data Analyst

    • Posted January 31, 2025
    • £500 - £600 per day
    • Remote - Adhoc travel to York
    • Contract

    Data Analyst

    • Location; Remote, ad-hoc travel to York
    • Duration; 6 months initial
    • Rate; Up to £600 (engagement must be via an umbrella company)

    Sanderson are currently partnered with a leading financial services brand to support an ongoing pensions project looking at policies that have gone ‘Beyond Maturity’. The candidate taking on this role will be responsible for matching & analysing data, spotting anomalies within the data, data mapping and working with large model point files.

    Required Experience:

    • Understanding of Policy level data, liabilities and customer journeys beyond retirement.
    • Experience working on ‘with profits’ products.
    • An understanding/background within Finance or Actuarial

    If this is of interest, please apply online or email [email protected] with an updated CV attached.

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      Tax Manager

      • Posted January 27, 2025
      • Up to £500 per day + remote working
      • Manchester
      • Contract

      Job Title: Tax Manager – FTC
      Salary: Up to £550 per day (overall assignment rate to Umbrella company)

      Contract Length: 12 months
      Location: Flexible / Remote

      Are you an experienced tax professional ready to make an impact? Our client is looking for a Tax Manager to join their team on a contract basis, providing high-level support in tax compliance, reporting, and advisory services. This role offers a competitive daily rate and an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment.

      This role will need to operate through an Umbrella company and all employer, employee tax and NI will be deducted from the rate.

      Benefits

      • Flexible working
      • 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
      • Employee Assistance Programme
      • Tailored learning programmes

      Key Responsibilities

      • Manage a varied workload with both short- and long-term deadlines, ensuring all deliverables are met.
      • Identify and implement best practices to enhance efficiency in tax return and accounts processes.
      • Prepare accurate and timely tax reporting, forecasting, and compliance deliverables aligned with Group Tax Standards.
      • Oversee tax provisions and disclosures for IFRS and Solvency II financial statements.
      • Handle all aspects of the corporation tax compliance process, including CTSA payments and reviews.
      • Provide expert advice on tax matters, ensuring tax risks are well-managed and understood.
      • Ensure tax efficiency for in-scope entities while considering group-wide implications.
      • Collaborate with Finance teams on tax charge preparations and other reporting requirements.
      • Build and maintain strong business relationships, effectively managing expectations.
      • Contribute to team goals, sharing knowledge and delegating where appropriate.

      Essential Experience and Skills

      • Accounting and/or tax qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIOT).
      • Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and HMRC practices.
      • Experience with IFRS accounting (including consolidated accounts) and Solvency II reporting.
      • Ability to assess and communicate the impact of new corporate tax developments.
      • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey key tax risks to non-specialists.

      If you’re ready to take on this challenging and rewarding role as a Tax Manager, apply today to make your mark in a forward-thinking organisation!

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        Mortgage Advisor

        • Posted January 26, 2025
        • £30000 - £35000 per annum
        • Chorley - Hybrid Model - Working 2/3 days per week from the head office
        • Permanent

        Mortgage Advisor
        Hybrid Position, Based in Chorley (2-3 days per week)

        Permanent / Full Time Position

        £30,000 – £35,000

        We are currently working with one of leading financial service clients to recruit a Mortgage Advisor into their well-established team, to deliver a high-quality and efficient mortgage advisory service to customers, conducting all meetings in strict adherence to regulatory compliance.

        Mortgage Advisor Responsibilities & Key Duties

        • Provide Expert Mortgage Advice: Offer accurate and reliable mortgage advice to potential customers, both in-person and over the phone, ensuring a personalised experience.
        • Support Mortgage Retention Strategy: Proactively engage with customers before their current mortgage term ends to support the Society’s retention strategy and enhance customer satisfaction.
        • Efficient Mortgage Application Processing: Process mortgage applications using the Society’s software system and handle all related administrative tasks, maintaining clear communication with customers throughout the application process.
        • Accurate Record Keeping: Maintain detailed, up-to-date records and notes at each stage of the mortgage application to ensure smooth processing.
        • Mortgage Application Approval: Approve mortgage applications within specified limits, ensuring alignment with the Society’s Lending Policy.
        • Consider Non-Standard Applications: Evaluate mortgage applications that fall outside the standard lending policy, providing justifiable business reasons when necessary.
        • Present Out-of-Criteria Cases: Submit non-standard cases to the Credit Risk Committee with well-supported recommendations and rationale for consideration.
        • Stay Informed on Regulatory Changes: Continuously update knowledge of regulatory matters, including compliance with the latest mortgage-related laws and share insights with colleagues.
        • Comply with Legal & Regulatory Standards: Ensure full compliance with all legal responsibilities, such as regulations on Vulnerable Customers, AML, MCOB, DPA, FCA, and other relevant guidelines.

        Technical skill and Knowledge Required;

        • CeMap qualified or industry equivalent.
        • 5 GCSE at Grade C or above including Maths and English or equivalent.
        • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
        • Experience of Microsoft packages including word & excel.
        • Ability to independently manage multiple tasks
        • Strong attention to detail

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          Regulated Reconciliations Analyst

          • Posted January 24, 2025
          • £200 - £300 per day
          • Edinburgh
          • Contract

          Regulated Reconcilitations Analyst

          • Edinburgh (Hybrid Working)
          • 6 month initial contract
          • Up to £300 (inside IR35)

          Brief Description of Role/Purpose:
          This role is part of the Regulated Reconciliations Team within Finance Operations. The primary responsibility is to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial records, specifically focusing on client money reconciliations, regulatory compliance (CASS), and resolving discrepancies in financial transactions. The role ensures compliance with the FCA’s CASS regulations and supports the safeguarding of client money and assets.

          Key Responsibilities:

          • Complete daily internal and external client money reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with CASS 7.
          • Manage daily system control reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and ensuring proper allocation.
          • Process operational loss investigations and report in line with internal standards.
          • Prepare and input manual journals as required.
          • Download and review tax reconciliations, ensuring timely payments to HMRC.
          • Validate monthly BaNCS or Legacy Corporate Ledger against the LBG Corporate Ledger.
          • Prepare and submit the monthly Client Money & Asset Report (CMAR) to the FCA within regulatory deadlines.
          • Support the upkeep of CASS Resolution Pack data and escalate potential CASS breaches.
          • Ensure all tasks adhere to Consumer Duty regulations.

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            Regulated Reconciliations Analyst

            • Posted January 23, 2025
            • £200 - £300 per day
            • Edinburgh
            • Contract

            Regulated Reconsilitations Analyst

            • Edinburgh (Hybrid Working)
            • 6 month initial contract
            • Up to £300 (inside IR35)

            Brief Description of Role/Purpose:
            This role is part of the Regulated Reconciliations Team within Finance Operations. The primary responsibility is to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial records, specifically focusing on client money reconciliations, regulatory compliance (CASS), and resolving discrepancies in financial transactions. The role ensures compliance with the FCA’s CASS regulations and supports the safeguarding of client money and assets.

            Key Responsibilities:

            • Complete daily internal and external client money reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with CASS 7.
            • Manage daily system control reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and ensuring proper allocation.
            • Process operational loss investigations and report in line with internal standards.
            • Prepare and input manual journals as required.
            • Download and review tax reconciliations, ensuring timely payments to HMRC.
            • Validate monthly BaNCS or Legacy Corporate Ledger against the LBG Corporate Ledger.
            • Prepare and submit the monthly Client Money & Asset Report (CMAR) to the FCA within regulatory deadlines.
            • Support the upkeep of CASS Resolution Pack data and escalate potential CASS breaches.
            • Ensure all tasks adhere to Consumer Duty regulations.

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              Senior Regulated Reconciliation Analyst

              • Posted
              • £275 - £300 per day
              • Part of the Finance Operations Team as a Snr Regulated Reconciliation Analyst, you will be responsible for completing daily client money reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies, documenting findings to improve operations.
              • Contract

              Our client a well known Financial Platform Provider are currently looking to hire several Senior Regulated Reconciliation Analyst.

              Location: Edinburgh – Potentially Hybrid working
              Duration: 6 Months with potentially extension
              Date Rates: £275 to £300prd (Inside IR35)

              Role Summary:

              Part of the Finance Operations Team based in Edinburgh as a Senior Regulated Reconciliation Analyst, you will be responsible for completing daily client money reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies, documenting findings and working closely with Operations to implement corrective actions.

              If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for delivering high standards of financial analysis and reconciliation, we would love to hear from you.

              Job Duties:

              • Completing all the underlying processes to enable the production of accurate reports
              • Preparing the daily System Control Reconciliations to ensure all the control accounts are correct and that any discrepancies have been identified
              • Performing the Operational Loss processes ensuring all losses are properly investigated and reported
              • Preparing and inputting manual journals where required
              • Ensuring any issues you identify which may constitute a CASS breaches are escalated immediately

              Knowledge/Experience Required:

              • Strong knowledge of CASS regulations and how these apply to both CASS Reconciliations and Operations daily or monthly procedures.
              • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
              • Knowledge of Finance and Accounting principles
              • Strong attention to detail, good fact finding skills and ability to make evaluative judgements based on both quantitative and qualitative information.
              • Are able to work effectively under pressure and manage to tight deadlines

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                Team Manager - Regulated Reconciliations

                • Posted
                • £350 - £400 per day + via Umbrella
                • Edinburgh - Hybrid working
                • Contract

                Sanderson are supporting a large programme of work within Financial Services and are looking to speak to Team Managers with regulatory reconciliations experience. This role will be hybrid working in Edinburgh.

                What You’ll Be Doing:

                • Leading a team of up to 8 in client money reconciliations, ensuring full compliance with CASS regulations and internal policies.
                • Driving continuous improvement in reconciliation processes to minimise risk and enhance accuracy.
                • Setting and monitoring KPIs to promote high performance and accountability across the team.
                • Resolving complex issues and managing escalations related to reconciliations.
                • Overseeing regulatory reporting, including CMAR submissions and maintaining the CASS Resolution Pack.
                • Collaborating with auditors and spearheading preparations for CASS and financial audits.
                • Contributing to strategic initiatives and providing actionable insights for Management Information (MI) reporting.
                • Ensuring all team activities align with Consumer Duty regulations.

                What We’re Looking For:

                • Deep understanding of CASS regulations and client money reconciliation processes.
                • Proven leadership skills with a strong ability to manage stakeholders effectively.
                • Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
                • Highly organised with a keen attention to detail and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
                • Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and Word, with significant experience in financial services-particularly in investments.
                • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in finance roles within financial services, supported by relevant qualifications (part or fully qualified accountant/QBE preferred).
                • IOC qualification in mutual funds (or actively working toward it).

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                  Performance Analyst, Fully Remote

                  • Posted January 16, 2025
                  • £30000 - £35000 per annum
                  • West Sussex
                  • Permanent

                  Performance Analyst, West Sussex, Fully Remote

                  Salary: £30k – £35k
                  Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
                  Fully Remote

                  Our client, an innovative market-leading insurance company, are looking for a Performance Analyst to join their Commercial & Marketing team either working remotely or based in their Haywards Heath, West Sussex office.

                  Key Responsibilities

                  • In this role you’ll support understanding and delivery of all acquisition/persistency KPIs to ensure budget targets are met. You will carry out analysis to support the identification of risks and opportunities to meet business objectives.
                  • Are you a detail-oriented professional with a strong analytical mindset and come from an insurance background? Have you worked with large data sets of more than one million rows? Do you have experience in forecasting, including phasing, bridges/waterfalls, and budgets and/or have you previously worked with price comparison website (PCW) data? If so, then they want you on their team!

                  What you’ll be doing

                  • Carrying out analysis and tracking MI to support the understanding of all acquisition/persistency KPIs. Identifying any risks and opportunities where appropriate.
                  • Support the understanding of the key drivers of acquisition/persistency performance and being able to clearly articulate them.
                  • Support acquisition/persistency Performance manager in the execution of the customer acquisition strategy.
                  • Support commercial initiatives across functional teams to deliver new capability or improvements in acquisition/persistency performance.
                  • Support acquisition/persistency Performance manager with forecasting, budget and retrospective analysis processes.
                  • Access and analyse often large amounts of information, data and market intelligence from multiple sources to create insight to optimise trading activities and generate new tactical and strategic initiatives.
                  • Support the acquisition/persistency Performance manager with the Daily Trade stand-ups ensuring appropriate updates are delivered and any analysis/actions completed in a timely manner.
                  • Any other reasonable duties as required.

                  Skills & experience

                  • Understanding of the insurance/financial services industry, its products.
                  • Experience of personal lines insurance analysis
                  • Experience of SAS, Excel and strong background in statistical methods
                  • Highly numerate and analytical. Ability to solve problems and distil complex information into clear insight and recommendations.
                  • Structured thinking to find solutions to complex problems and the ability to adopt a pragmatic way forward.
                  • Excellent communication & presentation skills, both verbal and written.
                  • Attention to detail.

                  Essential Skills

                  • Analytical mindset
                  • Worked with large data sets (greater than 1 million rows of data).
                  • Previously worked in Insurance

                  Desirable Skills

                  • Forecasting experience – Daily Phasing, bridges/waterfalls and budgets
                  • Experience working with PCW data
                  • Experience using SAS or SQL

                  Behaviour

                  • Professional, confident and personable.
                  • An agile approach to project management and the ability to react rapidly to changes in business priorities to take advantage of emerging opportunities.
                  • Able to work independently or collaboratively as part of a team.
                  • Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business.
                  • Analytical by nature with an aptitude for data-based decision making.
                  • A determined attitude to deliver change and rapidly overcome obstacles.

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                    Senior Management Accountant

                    • Posted January 15, 2025
                    • Up to £400 per day
                    • Manchester
                    • Contract

                    Job Title: Senior Management Accountant

                    Day Rate: Up to £400 a day (overall assignment rate to Umbrella company)

                    Contract length: Minimum 3 Months

                    Location: Manchester City Centre

                    Working Pattern: Hybrid (Flexible Working)

                    Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Management Accountant to join their finance team on a 3-month contract basis. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you’ll drive process improvements, mentor team members, and deliver valuable insights to senior management.

                    This role will need to operate through an Umbrella company and all employer, employee tax and NI will be deducted from the rate.

                    Benefits:

                    • Hybrid working
                    • 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
                    • Employee Assistance Programme
                    • Tailored learning programmes

                    Key Responsibilities:

                    • Assist the Finance Manager in preparing Group Management Accounts and act as the primary contact for finance team queries.
                    • Review balance sheet reconciliations, month-end processes, and team project tasks.
                    • Lead the transformation of Management and Financial Accounts processes to meet accounting standards.
                    • Standardise processes to ensure compliance with standards and business needs.
                    • Support the onboarding and integration of Management Accounts for new acquisitions.
                    • Drive process improvements to enhance efficiency and deliver high-value outputs for senior management.
                    • Conduct complex adhoc reporting and financial analysis to aid decision-making.
                    • Collaborate with the Financial Accounts team during audits and the preparation of statutory accounts.
                    • Line-manage and mentor team members, offering guidance and support.
                    • Ensure timely production of Group Accounts during month-end with minimal disruption.

                    Skills & Experience:

                    • Recognised professional accounting qualification or significant experience in a similar role.
                    • 2-3 years’ experience as a Management Accountant.
                    • Extensive knowledge of accounting processes and financial statements.
                    • Proven ability to drive continuous improvement and challenge existing methodologies.
                    • Strong commercial awareness and practical business judgment.
                    • Management or mentoring experience preferred.
                    • Advanced Excel and analytical skills, with excellent communication abilities.
                    • Experience in high-volume, fast-paced environments, with creativity to enhance processes.
                    • Attention to detail and quality focused.
                    • Proficiency in process mapping and implementation.

                    If you’re a skilled Senior Management Accountant ready to make an impact, apply now for this rewarding contract role!

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