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

• Expert Knowledge: Possesses expertise and understanding from a financial control perspective payments and collections at a subledger level. Providing these insights and guidance to the project team to ensure accuracy and relevance in the project's deliverables.
• Quality Assurance: Plays a role in verifying from a financial control perspective quality and accuracy data, ensuring they meet required standards and specifications, and may conduct reviews and testing to validate outputs.
• Testing: Data driven, attention to detail and ability to recognise from a finance perspective good v errors.
• Gathering Requirements: Assists in defining and refining finance requirements, ensuring alignment with Finance bau team and project initiatives.
• Risk Assessment: Helps identify potential risks related to Finance, advising on mitigation strategies to minimize impact on the ledger and finance processes.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicates with stakeholders, providing updates and clarifications related to their area of expertise, ensuring stakeholder concerns and requirements are addressed.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributes to the continuous improvement of processes and practices within their domain, suggesting enhancements and innovations to optimize project outcomes.
• Feedback and Evaluation: Provides feedback on project progress and outcomes, evaluating whether the project meets the desired objectives and standards
• Solution Design: Contributes to the design and development of Finance solutions, offering expert advice on feasibility, suitability, and potential impact of proposed approaches, ensuring solutions are technically sound and fit for purpose.
• Training and Support: Provides training and support to project team members, helping them understand complex concepts and processes, and may assist in developing training materials and documentation.

Essential Skills

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

We support the government scheme “Access to Work” please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

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 

If you are an at-risk candidate facing potential redeployment, please include this information in your CV.

Closing date 25th January 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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