Senior Financial Control Analyst

Overview

This role supports the Financial Control team within the organization’s Finance function. The team ensures the ledger is correct at every month-end and partners closely with Finance and product teams.

The organization is seeking a proactive, enthusiastic, commercially-minded qualified accountant to contribute to financial accounting and to help build a world-class finance function.

Responsibilities

• Manage a tight process with internal Finance teams to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
• Write insightful management commentary by understanding the business and its products.
• Understand accounting systems and make full use of system features to minimise manual elements of reporting.
• Drive process improvement and transformation, including incremental improvements through adoption of AI.
• Learn and use SQL to run reports and propose solutions that make processes efficient and scalable.
• Support the year-end process in collaboration with external auditors and the Financial Reporting squad.
• Review new products by assessing accounting implications and implementing them in the banking platform and accounting systems.
• Assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and propose accounting policy updates for new products launched.
• Help maintain integrity of the chart of accounts and financial static data.
• Resolve miscellaneous finance inquiries and support the wider finance team, including forecasting and valuations, bank transfers, transfer pricing, and tax policy research.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant with 2+ years of post-qualification experience.
• Strong understanding of technical accounting standards.
• Experience ideally in financial reporting/controlling teams and working in a retail banking environment.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Interest in the banking and regulatory landscape, including key financial controls.
• Self-starter who enjoys tackling what needs doing, from bank transfer support to producing reports for investors.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear language for stakeholders with diverse backgrounds.
• Comfortable embracing change and improving/innovating processes.
• Interest in using data; SQL skills are a bonus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with automation plans and technology-enabled process optimisation.
• Experience supporting month-end close, group consolidation, and year-end processes with external auditors.
• Familiarity with banking platforms and accounting systems.

Compensation & Benefits

• £56,000 - £75,000 + Incentive Awards tied to performance.
• £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Flexible working hours with trust to work enough hours to do the job well, and at times that suit the individual and team.
• Work from home setup supported; employees are provided Macbooks, and fully remote workers receive extra support for their work-from-home setup.
• Additional benefits included (full list available).

Location

• London/Cardiff.
• Open to distributed working within the UK with ad hoc meetings in London.