Acquisitions Accountant - Brown & Brown (Europe) : Job Details

Acquisitions Accountant

Location: EC3R 7NE, City of London (Hybrid)

Package: Negotiable plus benefits

Job Purpose

Managing Accounting, Budgeting and Forecasting for acquired European business

Responsibilities

• Finance integration for acquired business’
• Convert Investment Hypothesis to budget
• Produce opening balance sheet
• Integrate into BAU operations

Principal Accountabilities

Strategic

• Work with acquisition team to bring acquisitions into finance operation
• Account correctly for acquisitions under US and UK GAAP
• Part of European Finance team – work with team to drive effective integration
• Define best practice and drive change into organisation
• Support growth strategy – UK and Pan Europe ME
• Support integration of acquired businesses
• Support implementation of core operating/business systems to support scalable growth

Key Tasks

• Deliver Opening balance sheet in line with US and UK GAAP and Brown & Brown accounting policies
• Deliver with acquisition team the budget for all European acquisitions in accordance with Company requirements and timetable. Develop budget and drive adoption of company standards.
• Develop company system, process and tools to work to support the business and drive continuous improvement
• Run accounting operation with acquired company pre integration to BAU team including SOX submissions
• Support Retail, Wholesale and Programs finance team to integrate finance operations in to BAU teams
• Improve team quality in budgeting and forecasting tasks.
• Work with BI team to integrate acquired companies to the data warehouse
• Drive central allocations

People

• Leadership, communication and influencing skills required to drive adoption of business process and improve quality of budgeting and forecasting
• Ensure all activities are aligned and promoted in line with the company culture
• Ensure teammates are appropriately trained to adopt new tools and processes
• Ensure clarity of responsibility in process

Competencies

• Communication, influencing, and negotiation skills
• Analysis, judgement, and decision making
• Demonstrated financial acumen and commercial mind-set
• Planning, organisation, and leadership
• Direction, tone and leadership; team working; people development, coaching and management, motivation and objective setting
• Challenges the status quo; open to new ideas
• Knowledge and understanding of the financial services sector and insurance broking in particular

Job Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Education

• University Degree level or equivalent
• Accounting qualification to ACA, ACCA, CIMA fully qualified

Specific experience

• Experience within an international insurance services sector at manager level.
• Track record of integrating acquisitions.
• Track record of dealing with the management of processes in large organisations.