Senior Financial, Planning & Analysis Accountant

FP&A Senior Financial Accountant London FP&A Senior Financial Accountant We believe in giving you ongoing opportunities to advance your career. Here at Pacific Life Re and UnderwriteMe, we want to help you embrace your potential so you can achieve your personal best doing purposeful work, every day.

We are a rapidly growing global life reinsurer, working with our clients around the world to manage their mortality, longevity, and morbidity risk. We provide Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity reinsurance products and services to our clients. We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us. We are currently midway through a back-office office transformation program (Project Unify) and the company has recently re-organized into a Line of Business structure. The combination of these two events means an exciting time for Financial Planning and Analysis as we modernize our processes and set ourselves up to partner with the business effectively.

Senior Accountant, Financial Planning & Analysis

This role will focus on delivering high-quality financial planning, analysis, and insight to support decision-making within the Division.

This is a hands‑on role that requires strong analytical skills, sound accounting judgment, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business. Understanding complex reinsurance products and the ability to communicate this understanding with colleagues of differing expertise will be an asset in this role. Proficiency in Power BI development and experience working with financial systems would be beneficial. The role does not carry formal people-management responsibility but plays a key role in influencing outcomes through insight, analysis and business partnering.

Financial Planning & Analysis is a global function within Finance operating in UK, Asia, Australia and North America.

The FP&A team is responsible for all financial analysis, MI design and production, strategic planning and forecasting. The FP&A team also support the company’s strategic objectives in relation to organic growth, new products and markets, pricing, modelling and Tax strategy.

The team is also responsible for financial analysis, MI, and stakeholder management with the Enterprise FP&A team based in California.

Financial Planning, Analysis & Insight: Support the development and ongoing maintenance PL Re Division planning processes, including annual budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans. Prepare and deliver planning and forecasting outputs that provide transparency into performance, risks, and opportunities for senior FP&A leaders and business stakeholders. Conduct in-depth financial analysis, including variance analysis, profitability analysis, and scenario modelling, to support operational and strategic decision-making. Identify risks and opportunities within financial results and forecasts, escalating material items with well-supported analysis and recommendations. Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards, and KPIs to track business performance, communicating insights effectively to stakeholders. Ensuring analysis is timely, accurate, and decision-focused, enabling stakeholders to understand both financial outcomes and forward-looking implications.

Systems, Data and Process Enhancement: Contribute to finance transformation initiatives aimed at standardising and improving FP&A processes, systems and reporting. Support implementation of new planning, forecasting and expense management tools, including requirements definition and testing. Professional accounting designation (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) is preferred. Typically, 3+ years of relevant post-qualification experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or related finance role. Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Power query) and Power BI report development beneficial. Strong experience working with planning systems and analysis tools, including hands-on data extraction and management. Experience on finance transformation projects is preferred. Accounting knowledge combined with advanced financial analysis and modelling skills. Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days ~ Generous enhanced parental leave

Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary Savings & Retirement ~Subsidized gym membership Access to Employee Assistance Program Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme Time off for volunteering We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities.