Financial Control Analyst

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

• Help embed our software capitalisation process working closely with our engineering and business teams to create an automated and scalable solution.
• Take on the role of product owner for the financial reporting processes of software capitalisation, operating key controls across month end close and performing impairment assessments.
• Use your strong technical knowledge of relevant IFRS standards for capitalisation and impairment to support and challenge the business on areas of judgement and documentary evidence.
• Manage a tight process with the rest of our internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
• Understand the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
• Understand our accounting systems and make sure we are taking advantage of all features we can to minimise manual elements of reporting.
• Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose solutions that make our processes efficient and scalable.
• Support our year end process working with external auditors and our Financial Reporting squad.
• Help review new products, assessing the accounting and implementing them in our banking platform and accounting system
• Work with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and make proposals on accounting policy matters for new products launched
• Help maintain the integrity of our chart of accounts and financial static data
• Resolve miscellaneous inquiries and support the overall finance team wherever needed - from forecasting and valuations, to bank transfers, transfer pricing and tax policy research!

• You’re a qualified accountant with a few years’ post-qualification experience, ideally in financial reporting/controlling teams and working in a retail banking environment
• You have a strong understanding of technical accounting standards
• You have a great eye for detail
• You’re fascinated by the banking and regulatory landscape, and have a good understanding of key financial controls
• You’re a self-starter and enjoy tackling what needs doing, whether it’s making a bank transfer or pulling together reports for investors
• You’re comfortable translating complex information into simple words for people with diverse backgrounds
• You’re interested in using data (SQL skills would be a bonus)
• You thrive in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment

• 💰£60,000 - £65,000 ➕Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
• 📍This role can be based in our London or Cardiff office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
• ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.