Financial Reporting & Control Senior Manager

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – £80,000 to £99,600 + annual bonus
& benefits

Work Level - 2

Location – Reigate. Permanent Role

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid;
however, you should be able to travel to the office between 2 and 3 days per
week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close 15th March 2026.​

We’re looking for a Financial Reporting & Control Senior Manager (known internally as a Senior Finance Accountant) to
join our Insurance Money and Services team.

This is a great time to join and contribute to our growing
successes as Tesco Insurance is establishing itself.

You’ll be working alongside our wider Finance team and reporting
to the Head of Financial Reporting & Control of Tesco Underwriting.

What you’ll be doing

• Take ownership of the Financial Control
  Framework
  • Be responsible for First Line of defence for Tesco
    Underwriting Finance

• Actively contribute to Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Liaise with actuaries, parent company and
    external auditors.
  • Collaborate with underwriting & pricing,
    claims, and actuarial teams to pre-empt financial implications
  • Present financial reporting to senior leadership
    

• Team Leadership & People Management:
  • Support the Head of Financial Reporting &
    Control in managing the reporting team, including day-to-day oversight,
    coaching, and mentoring
  • Fostering a collaborative, high-performance
    culture where people feel connected and thrive
  • Act as a role model and technical lead,
    providing guidance on complex accounting and reporting issues
  • Workload planning and resource allocation to
    meet tight deadlines across multiple reporting cycles.

• Statutory and regulatory reporting:
  • Contribute to production and review &
    challenge of statutory accounts, Solvency UK QRT’s and Solvency and Financial
    Condition Report
  • Ensure compliance with PRA reporting
    requirements

• Financial planning
  • Supporting the commercial finance team to ensure
    forecasts reflect business drivers and emerging trends.
  • Provide insightful variance analysis and
    commentary to support decision-making and strategic planning

We need you to have

• Commercial
  acumen & knowledge of the General Insurance Market – understanding the
  business environment and confidence with making sense of complex, high
  quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively analyse
  and solve problems


• Excellent
  analytical thinking with the ability to interpret financial data and
  strong attention to detail


• Excellent
  verbal and writing communication skills with the ability to present
  financial information to non-financial stakeholders


• Confident
  in engaging with senior leadership, auditors and cross-functional teams

And if you have any of these, even better

• Ability
  to work efficiently within Microsoft Office Applications including advanced
  Excel to create relevant and effective reports using various data sources,
  analysing data trends to help guide decision making.


• Prior
  exposure to audit or technical accounting in insurance


• Understanding
  of Risk and Controls management within a regulated industry and
  demonstrate ability to deliver customer centric solutions.

• Proactive
  in identifying inefficiencies & control weaknesses and implementing
  process/control improvements


• We
  don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the
  brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you

• Prepare
  for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.


• Private
  Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365
  days a year.


• Performance
  related annual bonus.


• Indulge
  in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the
  opportunity to buy more.


• Embrace
  the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase
  to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we’ll give you a
  second card to share with someone else.


• Take
  part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be
themselves. We’re committed to maintain our inclusive workplace and celebrating
everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity
this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our
purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every
day.

Interviews

Interviews are expected to be shortly after closing
date. 

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!