Senior Corporate Accountant

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:

The successful candidate will be part of a team that is responsible for corporate accounting for the Luxembourg legal entities and oversight of group finance services. This role is responsible for statutory and regulatory reporting of M&G's Luxembourg legal entities.

This is a key role within Luxembourg Finance. The role holder will therefore need to be flexible and proactive and contributing to define, establish and evolve the necessary procedures, processes and reporting framework.

Key Work Level Accountabilities:
Experienced Colleague:

• Accountable for providing a quality service or product to customers and stakeholders, using skills/experience built through significant practical experience or training
• For team leaders, accountable for ensuring the team the role supports is delivering a quality service or product
• Works within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
• Delivers outputs that are clearly defined, using discretion over how to achieve them
• Makes suggestions for improvements to the work of the team, based on previous experience and knowledge of similar situations

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Preparation of Financial statement
• Support annual external and Internal audit reviews
• Prepare month-end Financial pack, balance sheet reconciliations and general accrual bookings.
• Monthly oversight of income accounting and billing activities.
• P&L analysis as part of the team's monthly financial control protocol
• Prepare and file regulatory reports to the CSSF
• Review and update of department processes and procedures to accommodate business changes.
• Assist Senior accountants with ad hoc reporting obligations to management and group finance, this included monthly results analysis, statutory / regulatory filings, VAT returns, etc as required.
• Participation in ad hoc projects and assistance in provision of information to auditors and closure of audit points
• To work collaboratively with colleagues and take personal accountability to maintain and enhance controls you are responsible for to support improvement of the overall control environment, customers outcomes and a reduction in M&G's operational risk.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Experience preparing financial statements
• Demonstrates working knowledge of Luxembourg GAAP and/or IFRS
• Ideally bi-lingual to include English plus either French or German.
• Strong Excel Skills
• Experience of SUN and Business Intelligent tools (desired)
• Financial Services experience (desired)
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage tightly controlled processes
• Excellent planning and organisation skills with the ability to work accurately under pressure
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work within a team environment
• Ability to take initiative and manage own workload
• Ability to identify problems and drive to follow them through to resolution
• Some experience of actively seeking out opportunities to learn about new developments and develop knowledge
• Be proactive, decisive, demonstrate well considered judgements and anticipate emerging risks
• Solution oriented

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.