Purpose of the Role

This exciting hybrid opportunity has arisen to join a growing Finance team in Leeds ensuring client financial transactions relating to insurance broking are managed and recorded correctly. You will lead a transactional finance team in overseeing and managing client money processes and responsibilities, ensuring client money is transacted in a timely and correct manner across several disciplines. You will have line management of the team and manage financial escalations as well as process excellence.

What you will do

This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Collaborating with your line manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all the following:

• Motivate, develop, and inspire your team to achieve personal and team goals whilst managing team workloads ensuring SLAs and quality standards are met.
• Take responsibility for the accurate and timely processing of transactions for our partners, suppliers, and clients.
• Be a key contact for related escalations, complaints and change requests.
• You will need to have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail whilst being adaptable to changing environments and priorities to ensure deadlines are met.
• Complete agreed procedures to ensure we remain compliant with client and insurer money rules as governed by the FCA.
• Liaise and build relationships with senior business leaders ensuring support for one another to maximise individual and team contributions.
• Oversee and support external audits and ensure that all balances are appropriately supported and closed in line with deliverables.
• Act as the first line of defence in identifying, recording, and investigating FCA breaches.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to handle and analyse large amounts of data.
• Confident in onboarding new starters including liaising with IT to ensure all systems and requirements are in place.
• Take the lead or be part of ongoing project and changes within the business to ensure this is communicated to the team in an affective and timely manner.

Qualifications and Experience

• Leadership experience essential from within an FCA regulated environment
• GCSE Maths and English (Grade C or equivalent and above).
• Excel to intermediate level.
• Insurance experience (not essential).

Most crucially for any applicant is your communication skills across all mediums, use of analytical and investigative skills to solve problems and the ability to respond positively to change.

This is an opportunity for a proactive, resourceful, self-motivated individual who is happy to lead a team and train others whilst working under pressure.

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

• Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
• Award-winning learning & development offering and support to obtain professional qualifications to enhance your knowledge and career prospects
• Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
• 24-hour Employee Assistance support for you and your family’s physical and mental wellbeing
• Corporate perks such as discounted gym memberships, cinema tickets, shopping, Eyecare vouchers, cycle to work and much more
• One day paid volunteering to give back to our communities
• Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT) - raising funds for charity with donation matching in your local community
• The Spotlight Awards, where we celebrate the best of the Ardonagh Group and all the bright talent across our business.

We offer genuine potential for both personal and professional development, come and be part of our story and help us shape our future. So, what are you waiting for? Apply today and one of our team will be in touch.

Ardonagh Group is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check.

Please note: We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. No Agencies please.

Why not check us out on LinkedIn or speak to one of our team to find out what life’s really like with The Ardonagh Group family.

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Everywhen is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check.

Please note: We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. No Agencies please.

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