Accounts Assistant

Accounts Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland

Verisk
Full Time Edinburgh, Scotland 22857 - 26500 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Company Description


We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.


Job Description


Verisk are seeking a motivated Accounts Assistant to join the Corporate Finance team based in Edinburgh. In this role you will work alongside the Verisk Corporate Accounting teams in the UK and globally to provide a high-quality customer service to the Verisk business units and management team.

In this role you will:

  • Actively participate in monthly closing process, including expense and balance sheet account analysis pertaining to owned areas
  • Create and record monthly and ad-hoc journal entries into the PeopleSoft accounting system
  • Assist in financial analysis and ad-hoc projects, as needed
  • Perform corporate accounting related functions for Verisk.
  • Perform accounting related functions for subsidiaries of Verisk.
  • Assist in quarterly and annual audit requests and financial reporting
  • Take ownership for core accounting processes (e.g. prepayment, fixed assets)
  • Complete assigned responsibilities for ad-hoc projects
  • Liaise with Business Units to ensure completeness & accuracy of monthly results
  • Ensure compliance with group SOX controls and maintain appropriate documentation

Qualifications
  • 1-2 years relevant work experience
  • Part/full qualification beneficial but not essential
  • Accounting degree preferred but not essential
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel-extensive knowledge of Pivot Table / Chart, Macros, etc.)
  • Excellent communication / documentation skills (oral and written)
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills
  • Ability to multi-task and set priorities
  • Detail oriented, meticulous and extremely diligent
  • Excellent client service, team work and diplomacy skills
  • Adaptable to a fast-paced environment

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Additional Information


In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
  • Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
  • Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
  • Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

http://www.verisk.com/careers.html

Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Accounts Assistant
Verisk

www.verisk.com
Jersey City, United States
Lee Shavel
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
Research & Development
1971
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