Senior Financial Accountant

A fast growing Investment business are seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to join the business on a 12 month FTC (minimum). You will assist the Senior Finance Manager with supporting the Financial Control and Accounting Operations team. You'll have responsibility for ensuring financial reporting outputs are accurate and in line with any accounting principles/standards as well as financial control policies.

Driving change through continuous improvement identified from errors/control observations will also be fundamental to this role to strengthen the overall financial control framework. Additionally, you'll become the SME for key regulatory reporting returns linked to Income statement and balance sheets for subsidiary entities and the consolidated group.

Outcomes of the Role

• At month end, reviewing financial reporting information and investigate anomalies/variances against expectation with/or independently of the AO function to ensure results are appropriate.
• Responding to queries from regulatory reporting team, FP&A team, Group Financial Control Consolidation team on entity income statement and balance sheets for entities within the group.
• Review of monthly account reconciliations prepared by the AO function to ensure accurate, timely and support the overall integrity of financial reporting information
• Quarterly compilation of FINREP and various FSA regulatory returns for the group and regulated subsidiary entities.
• Key responsibility of the role will be to produce and review year end statutory accounts for all group entities including IFRS 7 disclosures for individual entities and assist Group team with compilation at the group level.
• Align subsidiary stat accounts with updates to the group consolidated accounts and work with group team to ensure accuracy and consistency across the group.
• Assist with half year, interim and year end audit process. Manage information flows between the group AO, Treasury, Operations teams etc and the external audit team. Ensure deliverables are met within a tight timeframe.
• Attendance and input at monthly Financial Control Committee
• Adhoc queries, analysis and reporting to the wider business.
• Review of intercompany positions and cleardown in conjunction with the group treasury function.
• Maintain financial controls in accordance with group policies and procedures
• Proactively identify continuous improvement opportunities or developments
• Be pivotal in the development of wider finance team.
• Support the Senior Finance Manager and Group Financial Controller with any ad-hoc project work.
• Collaborate with wider functions such as FP&A and costs and insight teams.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Proficiency in financial software and ERP systems
• Experience of managing or leading teams.
• Proactive with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and communicate financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• In depth knowledge of IFRS and Regulatory Reporting
• Experienced in using MS Office tools including Excel, OneNote, and Outlook.

Desirable

• Minimum of 5 years' experience working within a Financial Services or Shared Services environment
• Trained in audit practice (relevant experience of the audit environment)

If this role sounds of interest please apply with your CV to schedule a confidential call.