Trainee Accountant

Job Summary

Zurich Life Ireland (ZLAP) is recruiting for a Trainee Accountant to join the financial operations team, part of the Zurich finance team. 

This role is a controlled function under the CBI Fitness and Probity Standard.

Your Role

As a Trainee accountant your main responsibilities will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

• Daily cash management process - monitoring & calculating funding requirements for assigned bank accounts.
• Processing of EFT & cheque payments with responsibility for sourcing the required bank approvers and recording the entries to the relevant cashbooks.
• Processing of returned payments, stale cheques & placing stops on cheque payments.
• Allocation of daily EFT receipts to the policyholder administration system, reconciliation of the prior day’s updates & preparing notifications for large values.
• Processing of Direct Debit runs & returns along with the daily reconciliation of same.
• Raising weekly & monthly cashbook journals to the SAP system.
• Responsibility for resolving assigned bank reconciliation differences.
• Investigate and reply to any queries assigned to you from the Finops queries mailbox.
• Other ad-hoc duties.

Your Skills & Experience

•    Excellent accuracy & attention to detail.
•    Ability to work in a team environment & contribute to the performance of the team
•    Good communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
•    Well organised & capable of working to tight deadlines
•    Ability to think clearly and logically
•    Intermediate level of problem-solving skills
•    Good working knowledge of Microsoft excel & outlook
•    Willingness to learn and take ownership of tasks
•    Interested in completing an accountancy qualification

Additional Information

Primary work location is Blackrock, Co.Dublin.

If you value an exciting and varied working environment and meet the above requirements, then our recruiter is looking forward to receiving your application by clicking on the button “Apply online”.

Who we are

Zurich is one Ireland's leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs over 1,000 people across its locations in Dublin and Wexford. 

Zurich is a strong brand, Zurich in Ireland is part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. Our 55,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, helping our customers in 210 countries and territories to understand and protect themselves from risk. In order to deliver our services, we offer a competitive compensation package and interesting opportunities for further training & development. As a Zurich employee you benefit from a multitude of advantages as well as a strong culture, characterized by acceptance, diversity and team spirit. 
 
At Zurich we are an equal opportunity employer.  We attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.

This role may be available part-time or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time.  Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.