Senior Accounts Technician

Role Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Accounts Technician to join the business on a 12 Month FTC.

The Transformation Program at Allianz is a strategic initiative aimed at enhancing the company's operational efficiency, customer experience, and overall competitiveness in the market. This program typically involves a series of projects and actions designed to modernize processes, integrate advanced technologies, and foster a culture of innovation and agility across the organization

From a finance perspective, the Transformation Program at Allianz is focused on optimizing financial operations, improving financial performance, and ensuring sustainable growth. This involves a series of strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing financial processes, leveraging technology, and fostering a culture of financial agility and innovation

This role is based in our Guildford Office. This is a Hybrid role with expectations of being on site 2 to 3 days per week, please note that occasional travel may be required.

Salary Information

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

• Financial Subject Matter Expertise: Leverages deep knowledge of financial controls, payments, and collections at the subledger level to guide the project team. Provides strategic insight that ensures all deliverables are accurate, compliant, and aligned with organisational standards.
• Quality Assurance Leadership: Acts as a key guardian of data integrity, reviewing financial information with a control-focused lens. Conducts thorough checks, validation exercises, and quality testing to ensure outputs meet the highest standards.
• Analytical & Testing Excellence: Applies strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail to identify anomalies, distinguish accurate financial data from errors, and ensure the reliability of all finance-related testing activities.
• Requirements Shaping: Partners closely with Finance BAU teams to define, refine, and translate complex financial requirements into clear, actionable elements that support successful project outcomes.
• Risk Identification & Mitigation: Proactively assesses potential financial risks and impacts on the ledger or downstream processes. Recommends effective mitigation strategies to safeguard financial integrity and operational efficiency.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serves as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, delivering clear updates, addressing concerns, and ensuring alignment across business and project teams. Builds confidence through transparent and effective communication.
• Driving Continuous Improvement: Champions enhancements to financial processes, tools, and practices. Identifies opportunities for innovation and operational optimisation that strengthen project delivery and long-term performance.
• Progress Evaluation & Feedback: Provides thoughtful, constructive feedback throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring deliverables stay on track and align with business objectives, quality expectations, and control requirements.
• Solution Design Collaboration: Brings financial expertise to solution design discussions, advising on feasibility, control implications, and business impact. Ensures all proposed solutions are robust, practical, and fit for purpose.
• Training & Knowledge Transfer: Supports the capability-building of project team members by explaining complex financial concepts in accessible ways. Contributes to the creation of training materials and documentation to strengthen team readiness and understanding.

Essential Skills

• Part-Qualified (ACCA, CIMA) or AAT
• Extensive Finance experience
• SAP experience
• Project / transformation experience
• Project management experience

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust  

At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. 

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Conor McCourt 

Closing date 19th April 2026

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow.

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