Assistant Accountant

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London, Greater London, England
In-Office
Junior
Insurance
The Role
The Assistant Accountant will handle accounts payable, credit card reconciliations, payroll checks, and assist in financial reporting and audits, ensuring attention to detail and timely completion of tasks.
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About Homeprotect

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle – to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.

We’re experts at insuring people who want to build or buy a unique property, renovate, rent a home or leave it unoccupied. We can cover people who travel a lot, run a business from home or even collect rare treasures. We protect people who love living in a listed building, having a view of a river or sunbathing on a flat roof.

We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK customer support teams are on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do.

Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. But we’re not content with being the leading provider of what’s called ‘non-standard’ insurance. We believe there’s no such thing as ‘standard’. We’re all unique and we all deserve home insurance designed with our individual needs in mind – something our combination of real people and smart tech enables us to do.

Our simple promise? Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.

What It's Like To Work Here

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We’re a small but perfectly formed team, made up of insurance industry specialists alongside a diverse mix of technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions from all sorts of industries and backgrounds. We all bring our individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to empower people to protect their homes and the things that they love.

Working in a fast-paced environment where change happens regularly is how we do things. But we also recognise that you’ll do your best work when you have the right balance, and that’s why we have fully embraced hybrid working, and in some cases, fully remote working, giving our teams the flexibility to choose the right location and working hours for them. We prefer to focus on the outputs of their work, not where they complete it. That said, there will be times when getting together in one location makes sense, but day-to-day, our teams have the freedom to decide where to work and we trust that they’ll make the right decision balancing the business needs and their own preferences.

Most companies think their culture is great, however at Homeprotect, we have the proof to back this up. We have been recognised externally as a Great Place to Work for the last six consecutive years

Sound good? Read on to find out more about joining our team…

Key Responsibilities

  • Accounts payable processing and payment runs including expense processing.
  • Credit card processing and reconciliation in the accounting system
  • Some payroll checking (e.g overtime)
  • Purchase order queries
  • Bank payments and reconciliations.
  • Assisting the Management accountant on commission and premium corrections as part of the monthly Bordereaux preparation
  • Assist in Preparation and distribution of monthly Premium Finance slides.
  • Staff discount validation on Home insurance
  • Statutory audit support.
  • Adhoc reporting assistance (e.g. ONS data collection)

Requirements

We would love to hear from people with the following skills and experience:

Experience

  • Experience in month end duties and running the accounts payable and expenses function
  • Solid accounting experience
  • Good excel skills
  • Excellent attention to detail with the ability to meet strict deadlines with accurate results.
  • Confident at building new relationships and deal with management.
  • Communication and presentations skills (both verbal and written).
  • Positive, energetic, can-do attitude and hands on approach.
  • Strong analytical skills.

Benefits

We think we have a fantastic company culture and welcome new team members with open arms. We also offer a great range of benefits, including:

  • A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance.
  • Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us.
  • Discount of 50% when you choose to take out a home insurance policy with us.
  • An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals.
  • Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need.
  • Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choices.
  • The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!

On top of that, we also offer all the standard stuff, like:

  • 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually.
  • Private medical cover for all employees
  • Financial Advice with Octopus Money
  • Life insurance
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme
  • Pension contribution
  • Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office.
  • Local and national retail discounts

Have we captured your imagination? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Unique As Standard

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, as long as you meet the knowledge, skills and experience criteria for the role and have the right to work in the UK. We think everyone can excel in the right environment – no matter your gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disabilities or beliefs. We believe in celebrating difference, and everything that makes both our customers and people unique, by creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any extra help with your application, or if you have any requirements at any stage of the recruitment journey.

Equally, lots of our staff at Homeprotect work flexibly and in a variety of ways, whether that’s different core hours or remote working. Please chat to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need, as we’re always happy to explore what's possible for the role.

Your data will be maintained in line with our ‘recruitment data privacy policy’ found here.

Top Skills

Accounting Software
Excel
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The Company
HQ: New Malden
102 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

We’re experts at providing home insurance for unusual properties or circumstances – whether that’s building or buying a unique property, renovating, renting it out or running a business from home. We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK contact centre is on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do. Unlike most standard home insurance providers, we can offer an online quote in 97% of cases, even for complex circumstances.

As well as this, Homeprotect buildings insurance has been 5 Star rated by Defaqto, which means it provides one of the highest quality offerings in the market with a comprehensive range of features and benefits. In addition, a Homeprotect policy includes a basic level of home emergency and legal expenses as standard and can be extended to include upgraded home emergency and legal expenses, together with lost key cover.

Having grown to be the number one brand in complex home insurance, we’ve got ambitious plans and we’re scaling fast. As a diverse group of industry specialists, technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions, we come from all sorts of industries and backgrounds, working together to empower people to protect their homes and the things they love. Because whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.

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