Trainee Accountant - Investment Back Office

Job Summary

Zurich Life Assurance Plc are looking for a Trainee Accountant to work on the Unit Pricing team, within the Investment Back Office area of the wider Finance Function. The Unit Pricing team’s primary responsibility is to ensure that Zurich’s unit linked fund range is accurately valued on a daily basis, with policyholder cashflow instructions managed appropriately.

Your Role

Your role will be to work as part of the Unit Pricing team, helping ensure that all daily and monthly unit pricing deliverables are met, and assisting in the completion of project related work that is required of the team (e.g. fund launches / closures). You will also get exposure to the other teams within the Investment Back Office – Investment Accounts, Settlements, Investment Compliance, and Self-Directed.

Overall responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following :

• Ensure all tasks and controls within Unit Pricing are executed efficiently and effectively within our risk framework
• Processing of policyholder cash flows into / out of the unit linked funds
• Daily verification and review of instrument pricing
• Daily pricing of unit linked funds, and validation of unit linked fund performance
• Ad-hoc project work
• Implementation of process improvements and control enhancements
• Liaise with local Financial, Fund Administration, Actuarial and Group Reporting teams

Your Skills and Experience

Competencies and behaviours