565 Finance jobs in Croydon

Your new company
Established organisation, with strong retention rates are looking to appoint a technically astute accountant with prior experience of accounting or auditing international subsidiaries within a matrix environment.

Your new role
This is a pivotal role within a high-performing finance team, responsible for delivering accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with IFRS for a portfolio based within the EMEA region. The successful candidate will play a key role in the preparation of statutory accounts preparation, tax accounting, production of periodic reports, and supporting audit processes, while also contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across financial controls and systems. This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to international operations and complex reporting structures within a fast-paced, matrix environment.

What you'll need to succeed
We welcome applications from qualified accountants or those soon to qualify with solid experience in IFRS reporting experience, ideally gained within a multinational (at divisional level) or group finance setting. Alternatively, this role is well-suited to individuals exiting a leading chartered accountancy firm, looking to make their first move into industry. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across the business are essential.
What you'll get in return
An autonomous role within a professional employer which offers an excellent benefits package and annual bonus on top of the salary.

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Finance Manager

An opportunity has arisen with an expanding insurance group for a qualified accountant to join and mentor a small team as a Finance Manager

Core responsibilities will include

• Financial Reporting & Control : Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual management and statutory accounts for multiple entities. Maintain robust financial reporting and controls framework, ensur.

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About Allica Bank

Recently named by The Times newspaper as one of the UK’s Top 20 financial technology (Fintech) companies, Allica is a new bank for established small & medium sized enterprise (SME) customers. We have just closed a £100m Series C fundraise led by leading global investor TCV.

Established SMEs are one of the last underserved opportunities in UK fintech. They are the backbone of local communities - representing over a quarter of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers. We’re here to change that. We’ve already established a clear competitive advantage, and that should only increase as we scale.

Finally, we really care about attracting the best people. It’s amazing what a small team of committed and talented people can do, if not weighed down by poor culture, leadership and processes. We’re building something important and impactful at Allica and we’re always looking for exceptional people to join the mission. Could that be you!

Department Description

The Finance & Treasury function covers a broad spectrum of financial responsibilities for the Bank. Under the leadership of the CFO and the finance department heads, the team is responsible for equity raising and investor relations; treasury and liquidity management; prudential risk and regulatory reporting; financial reporting and accounting, financial planning, and tax management activities.

Role Description

We are looking for a Financial Reporting Accountant to join our Financial Control team at an exciting phase of our growth journey. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead across a number of areas of our close and reporting processes, own the review and challenge of certain key accounting assessments & judgments, support the maturity and automation of our controls, test the accounting impact of new product initiatives, as well as many other tasks.

Principal Accountabilities

• Responsibility for the accounting of all treasury instruments, including but not limited to hedge accounting, collaterals, bonds and gilts.
• Review of the management information prepared by Treasury, including the challenge and verification of their key models including IRRBB and liquidity metrics.
• Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements (including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and supporting files.
• Provide oversight over the Bank’s external financial reporting requirements, including any investor reporting.
• Performance of variance analysis, reviewing variances against prior period actuals and forecasts and preparing summary commentary for management.
• Review of key accounting areas such as ECL/IFRS 9 assumptions, capitalised development costs and EIR.
• Working with the Finance Transformation team to support new product initiatives, including any accounting considerations.
• Assessing the impact of corporate development activity to our financial statements.
• Support the year-end audit process, working closely with the Bank’s external auditors.
• Identify improvements in internal controls, as well as working with the Finance Transformation team to automate processes.
• Assist with ad-hoc duties as needed.

Personal Attributes & Experience

• Qualified ACA/ACCA or equivalent, ideally gained within a Big 4/Top 10 accountancy firm.
• Experience of working in the Banking/FinTech/Financial Services industry, either in audit or in industry.
• A genuine passion for FinTech and wants to contribute to the growth of Allica at an exciting phase of our journey.
• Have strong analytical skillset, including the utilisation of data and reporting tools
• Have the ability to work autonomously and be initiative-taking as required whilst working well within a team
• Be able to solve complex problems
• Strong influencing and people skills
• Strong skills in MS Office, especially Excel.

Don’t tick every box?

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind;

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• Options for flexible working
• Regular social activities
• 25 days holiday
• Pension contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private health cover (with the option to add family members)
• Life assurance
• Critical illness cover
• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Financial Reporting Accountant Fluent Chinese (Mandarin)

City of London / Hybrid

Permanent

Up to £60k + bonus

Are you interested in working for a company where you can achieve professional growth? My client needs a part qualified accountant with some financial services reporting experience. They are happy to train the right candidate.

We are working with a financial services company based in Centra.

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Join our journey to create a new experience for The National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

A bit about the role…

An exciting opportunity in a key and broad financial role within an innovative multibillion pound business. The Financial Reporting Accountants are key members of the team delivering the financial records of Allwyn Entertainment Limited and its fellow group companies, monthly management reporting, asset management, balance sheet reporting, financial controls and regulatory reporting.

There are two Financial Reporting Accountants within the Financial Control team, both of these roles are expected to learn all aspects of financial control, and to be able to support each other to ensure that the requirements of the Company are fulfilled. We believe in providing incumbents the fullest opportunity to get as much experience as possible across all of the financial statements, and being able to work collaboratively to ensure that the responsibilities are delivered to an excellent standard in a timely manner.

• This role sits within the Financial Control team, a team of 8 which has primary responsibility for ensuring that the businesses financial records are sound, there are robust accounting and reporting processes, gatekeeping and application of Allwyn’s accounting policies, filing of our 6 UK entity accounts on time including one set complete under full IFRS and a public listed Financing Company, in addition to completing regulatory reporting to our banks and to the Gambling Commission.
• Key responsibilities for the team are:
• Financial Reporting
• Quarterly reporting to Group for consolidation
• Statutory Reporting
• Covenant Reporting
• Regulatory Reporting including our annual Good Causes final reconciliation
• Custodians of the balance sheet accounts
• Managing financial controls
• Support with budgeting and forecasting
• Delivering value and insight

What you’ll be doing…

• Responsible for routine month end processes and journals, ensuring all accounting adjustments are made, and costs are appropriately captured and reported on a periodic basis in accordance with IFRS
• Ownership and proactive management of the reporting of fixed assets including additions, disposals, assets under construction, depreciation and amortisation and impairment.
• Ability to write technical accounting papers as required.
• Ownership of lease accounting to include embedded lease reviews and annual IBR reviews.
• Deputise for the Financial Reporting Manager.
• Line management of one Trainee Accountant.
• Supporting the IFRS Manager with documenting accounting policies, ensuring the policies adhere to IFRS but also apply the business requirements of Allwyn.
• Ownership of the GRNI accrual including active management of the aged balances by liaising with stakeholders to ensure closed down in a timely manner
• Preparation of all balance sheet accounts (excluding Trust, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable) ensuring that they are fully reconciled on time, with all balances substantiated and reviewed in line with SOX.
• Work very closely with the Commercial Finance team to ensure that their reporting is robust, review business cases and review balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support with implementing and monitoring of the new balance sheet reconciliation and journal policy
• Liaise with other departments as appropriate to ensure that all relevant considerations (legal, corporation tax, VAT, lottery duty etc.) have been taken into account in the financial reporting process
• Become the expert for tax GL postings by liaising with the tax department as necessary.
• Review of the monthly management accounts to ensure accuracy of month end numbers and to ensure cost accruals are well supported and verified
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager and Reporting Financial Controller with implementing SOX across Financial Reporting and Accounting
• In relation to preparation / approval of balance sheets and journals, be able to appropriately challenge and question underlying assumptions ensuring rigor and robustness across the financial statements
• Key responsibilities in the quarterly and annual audit cycles in terms of key deliverables to the external auditors and working as the liaison between wider finance and the audit team.
• Support the preparation of the Financial Statements under IFRS as required.
• Support the Group Reporting team as required to ensure that intercompany processes are robust and all amounts agreed and reconciled.

What experience we’re looking for…

• ACA or ACCA or similarly qualified accountant with statutory reporting, month end reporting, preparing journals and reconciliations, and control-based experience with at least 2 years PQE of which one has been in industry
• Experience of operating in a month/period end cycle – working to tight deadlines and delivery of a successful month end
• Experience of interpreting and applying new accounting standards
• Experience of delivering process improvement, including driving efficiencies
• Experience of tangible and intangible asset accounting and assessment of impairment
• Experience of coaching junior team members to impart knowledge
• Proven aptitude using accounting systems, ideally SAP, and an ability to understand and adapt to different systems and ways of working
• Proven experience of analysing and interpreting financial data
• Demonstrable ability to articulate and present using effective written and verbal communication skills, including report writing
• Ability to use the Microsoft Office suite, with advanced knowledge of Excel

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. 

• Innovation - We pride ourselves on it! We’re constantly looking for new ways to excite our customers, bringing new products to enjoy which is all underpinned by our responsible play values and making them accessible to all.
• Giving back – Did you know that playing the lottery generates around £30m a week for charities and good causes in the UK? Our aim is to have doubled this number by the end of the first 10-year licence
• Sustainability – Our aim to be net zero by 2030 which would make us the first lottery provider globally to achieve this
• Inclusion and accessibility – We are making all parts of The National Lottery inclusive – whether you play a game in a store or online. 

If you need any assistance or adjustments to this job description or in the application process, please contact a member of the talent team at and we’ll be happy to help. 

**Being the custodians of the National Lottery license is a big responsibility, so all of our roles are subject to extensive background checks**

An inclusive reward offering with wellbeing at the centre…

At Allwyn, we’ve put together a range of inclusive benefits and policies to support our colleagues at every stage of their lives and careers.

Here’s a list of some of the fantastic benefits we offer…

• Company bonus scheme
• Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
• 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
• Complimentary Private Medical
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
• £500 wellness allowance
• Access to nutritional advisor and personal trainers
• Discounted Health Assessments
• Complimentary Financial coaching

Our benefits and policies reflect our commitment to wellbeing and inclusivity and are enhanced with features that benefit our colleagues (and their families). By offering a variety of benefits that support our colleagues, we continue to create a place of work where people feel rewarded and can succeed.

A place of belonging…

We want to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace.  All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications.  Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

We are a Disability Confident Leader which means we’ve taken proactive steps to ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive for disabled colleagues and candidates. As part of this we offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements of the job.

Are you an experienced accountant with a passion for technical accounting and external reporting? We are looking for a Group Accountant to join our team and serve as the company's technical accounting expert. In this role, you will provide essential guidance on technical accounting matters, lead significant projects like the adoption of new accounting standards across the group, and ensure the seamless preparation of our annual and interim financial reports.

• Technical Accounting Expert : Serve as the first point of contact for all technical accounting matters across business units and central functions, offering guidance on new or updated accounting standards.
• External Reporting : Lead the preparation of financial statements for our annual and interim reports, and work closely with the audit team to ensure an efficient process.
• IFRS 2 and EPS Reporting : Manage share-based payments and EPS reporting for the group.
• Accounting Policy Leadership : Own and maintain the Group Accounting Policy Manual and Global Chart of Accounts, ensuring clear communication and compliance across the organisation.
• SOX Control : Serve as the owner for relevant SOX controls, ensuring compliance and internal control effectiveness.

Requirements

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualified accountant.
• Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Experience in preparing annual reports and accounts.
• Proven ability to work on statutory and management accounts.
• Excellent spreadsheet, and analytical skills.
• Strong focus on internal controls and delivering on deadlines.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.

We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to ( ) if you need anything