Senior Accountant

Looking for a role where you can combine technical accounting excellence with commercial insight, working across a complex international insurance business and contributing to strategic financial reporting and decision-making?

As a Senior Accountant, you will lead key financial and regulatory reporting activities for Markel International, partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Actuarial, Compliance and the wider business to deliver high-quality reporting, strengthen controls and provide meaningful insight into business performance.

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

Markel International Finance is responsible for the financial, regulatory and business reporting of Markel International and its subsidiaries. It is part of Markel Group’s Global Finance Department.

The Senior Accountant sits within the Finance and Regulatory Reporting team and will predominantly be focussed on the financial and regulatory reporting for Markel International Insurance Company (MIICL). MIICL operates four main underwriting units (London Market, Asia Pacific, UK and Canada) and underwrites Global Reinsurance, US Wholesale & Specialty and US Programs & Solutions business. Business is written from its offices in London and other UK locations, its branches in Switzerland, Ireland and Canada, and its overseas operations in Dubai, with gross written premiums in 2025 of $1.37bn. Markel’s financial goals are to earn consistent underwriting profits and superior investment returns to build shareholder value.

Markel International operates as an organisation driven by the continuous desire for self-development, in an encouraging and collaborative culture. The individual will contribute to elevating the reporting function beyond its current and positive footing within the organisation as a trusted and proactive facet of the company. This position is a unique opportunity for the right Candidate to work on an exciting and challenging role for Markel International’s Finance department. The appointment represents the real opportunity to make valuable contributions to a successful organisation in fine-tuning and enhancing a function to add proven insight to the performance of the business.

Markel International is a diverse organisation with a range of offerings to its client base. As such, there will be a range of technical and commercial challenges that provide breadth in experience and outlooks. Beyond the risk carrier operations, the business boasts a range of legal entities covering service companies, Legal advisory, MGAs and consultancy arms, each with their own business models and nuanced requirements of the Finance function.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support the production of the annual MIICL UK GAAP financial statements and quarterly board papers.
• Responsible for provision of information for the audit process ensuring reconciliations and samples are provided. Ensure the financial statements are signed off within the agreed timeline.
• Assist with quarterly US GAAP reporting and analysis for Markel International.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual Solvency UK SFCR for MIICL.
• Take ownership of the quarterly balance sheet reconciliation process for MIICL.
• Liaise and communicate effectively with other areas of business including Actuarial and Capital, Legal and Compliance, Internal Audit, US Corporate Finance and other members of the wider Finance team.
• Become familiar with Markel’s current and legacy systems and get involved on finance project work as and when required.

Our must-haves:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent) with experience in non-life insurance sector is desirable for this role.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of UK Financial, Regulatory and preferably Solvency UK reporting.
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical and data interrogation skills, with the ability to identify trends, anomalies and key insights from large and complex datasets.
• Have advanced Excel skills and experience working with large volumes of financial and regulatory data to produce accurate, high-quality reporting.
• Be highly data-driven, with a natural curiosity to understand the story behind the numbers and challenge outputs where appropriate.
• Have experience using reporting tools and technology solutions to improve efficiency, automation and reporting capability.
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail, ensuring reporting outputs are accurate, complete and delivered to a consistently high standard.
• Be able to translate complex financial and regulatory information into clear, concise and meaningful commentary for senior stakeholders.
• Show a proactive mindset, continually seeking opportunities to improve processes, controls, data quality and reporting insights.
• Be comfortable handling multiple priorities and delivering high-quality work to demanding deadlines.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.

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