Financial Control Associate (9 months)

Join us as a Financial Control Associate

• Hone your skills as you provide control of our financial ledger
• We'll look to you to support change initiatives, process improvements and in system implementations
• You'll be exposed to experts across the Finance function, putting you in a unique position to build a credible professional network that will open the door to excellent career developments
• We're offering this role for a period of nine months

In this role you'll be responsible for the delivery and integrity of monthly financial information, statutory and external reporting, value added commentary and analysis for your business area. You'll provide support and input into the end to end control and ownership of franchise and legal entity balance sheets for your business area, along with reporting.

Along with this, you'll provide full substantiation and reconciliation of the balance sheet, and profit and loss accounts within a controlled framework.

In this role you'll:

• Investigate process or system issues
• Undertake activities assigned on a timely basis and highlight and process improvement opportunities
• Support systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
• Ensure all reports and outputs relating to reconciliations are produced on time and are of high quality
• Provide input to and support process improvements, ensuring existing work and development activities are the focus of continuous improvements
• Prepare month-end accounting, such as journals preparation, reviews and account reconciliation

To succeed in this role, you'll need experience in delivering core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audit. You'll ideally have experience in a financial services environment, knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards, and already have, or be working towards, an accountancy qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA or AAT.

We'll also look to you to bring:

• The ability to identify, build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, influencing and challenging as required
• Experience of investigating and probing issues with cross-business impact
• The ability to capture trends of journals posted, reconciliations undertaken, and budget MI released
• The ability to understand accounting impact of activity undertaken and highlight and process issues or gap to reviewer