Financial Control Analyst

Join us as a Financial Control Analyst

• This is an opportunity to support the delivery of end-to-end financial control activity
• With significant exposure, you’ll enjoy networking with senior stakeholders across Finance
• Gain valuable experience and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this challenging role
• We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Manchester office at least two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home

What you'll do

As a Financial Control Analyst, you’ll establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and deliver high quality and consistent financial, statutory, regulatory and management reporting outputs. You’ll comply with relevant policies and consider and escalate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls on a regular basis. Day to day, you’ll:

• Undertake reconciliations, accounting, MI and control activities to support the ledger close, reconciliation, substantiation and reporting
• Support change initiatives, process improvements and in system implementations
• Prepare month-end accounting, such as journals preparation, reviews and account reconciliation
• Investigate process or system issues

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring experience in core financial control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audit. We’ll also look to you to have:

• An accounting qualification or be working towards completion of one
• Knowledge of international accounting standards
• Experience of delivering change in a financial services environment
• The ability to identify, build and enhance key relationships at a senior level
• Experience of investigating and probing issues with cross-business impact