Accountant (Portuguese Speaking) at Believe Resourcing

Role Description:

The incumbent of this role provides reinsurance accounting and claims services to clients and supports the accounting operations within the RI CFO unit. This requires effective and efficient handling of a reinsurance accounting and claims portfolio, which includes verification, processing, analysing, coordinating and administering technical accounting and claims transactions for all natures of contracts and all lines of business:

• Checking, posting and analysing reinsurance statements of account for reinsurance business
• Processing deposits
• Handling reinsurance facultative business
• Independently handling claims from our treaty and facultative business
• Processing relevant large-loss notifications
• Checking and posting reinstatement premiums
• Coordinating and handling broker business
• Performing credit control activities
• Administering payment transactions (incoming and outgoing, including compliance with any financial sanctions and current account management
• Handling treaty maintenance (accounting/claims-related issues)
• Interacting with internal and external clients to successfully bring reinsurance accounting and claim matters to conclusion
• Supporting cross-unit working groups and initiatives

Requirements:

• Graduate finance, accounting, insurance or completed relevant apprenticeship
• Relevant experience (2 years) of primary insurance or reinsurance
• Knowledge of the principles of accounting
• Comfortable in MS Excel and good IT skills
• Professional working proficiency in English & Portuguese essential