General Ledger Specialist

General Ledger Specialist - City of London - Hybrid Working - 700- 1000 per day DOE Our client is a London speciality insurer running a finance transformation programme, and the general ledger sits at the centre of it. They need a senior GL specialist who can own the ledger design, hold their ground with finance leadership and the systems integrator, and make sure what gets built still closes the books at quarter end.You will be the programme''s authority on how the ledger should work. That covers the chart of accounts, the entity and currency structure, journal and posting rules, and how data arrives from the subledgers. The work sits between the finance function, the technology team and the implementation partner, so you will spend as much time explaining and challenging as you will designing. What you will do Lead the design, or redesign, of the chart of accounts and GL structure across the insurer''s legal entities and reporting basesDefine posting logic and accounting rules for the premium, claims, reinsurance and expense flows coming from upstream systemsRun requirements and design workshops with the financial control, reporting and actuarial teams, and turn the output into specifications the delivery team can build fromSupport data migration, reconciliation and parallel runs, including sign-off of opening balancesAct as the finance voice in testing and cutover, and help the business own the ledger once the programme steps back ExperienceSignificant hands-on experience ..... full job details .....