Assistant Financial Controller

Flock; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday (+ Bank Holidays)

Share Incentive Plan

Workplace Pension

Private Medical Insurance (including D

Private Medical Insurance (including O

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay

£1000 toward relevant professionalfil

£500 per annum towards learning andD

3 days paid leave for L&D purposes

Job summary

Flock, the AI-enabled fleet insurance company, is hiring an ambitious ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant to own month-end close and strengthen financial controls. You will produce variance analysis and MI for budgeting and reporting, while automating steps on a new platform with AI support.

The role suits a recently qualified accountant with strong month-end experience, aiming to grow within the finance team and contribute to audit readiness and group reporting.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (recently or with experience).
• Practice background with hands-on month-end experience.
• Solid core accounting, balance sheet reconciliations and journals.
• Experience strengthening financial controls or improving processes.
• Curiosity, ambition and willingness to learn, especially with AI.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close from start to finish, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and post journals with strong evidencing.
• Run variance analysis and build the monthly management information pack for budgets and reporting.
• Strengthen financial controls and automate manual steps where possible.
• Prepare VAT returns and assist with group reporting.
• Collaborate with FP&A to ensure budgets and senior reporting are accurate.
• Support the annual audit and liaise with external auditors.
• Use AI tools to speed up reconciliations, analysis and reporting.
• Take on ad-hoc finance projects, including R&D tax claims if experienced.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Practice background

Core accounting

Month-end close

Financial controls

AI interest

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

About Flock

Road accidents kill and injure people, damage vehicles, and cost businesses fortunes. But traditional insurance does nothing to prevent them - it just pays out claims when they happen. At Flock, we’re changing that. Using telematics, AI, and real-time data, we proactively help our fleet customers prevent crashes. We obsessively focus on keeping drivers safe, and we put our money where our mouth is - paying out millions of pounds per year to fleets that get safer over time.

We were acquired by Admiral in May 2026. Now we combine the backing of the UK’s leading motor insurer with startup energy and speed. We’re growing fast with bigger plans than ever, and we’re hugely optimistic that our approach will save many more lives in the decade ahead.

We’re on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer. Join us!

About the role

Reporting to Sarah Phillips, you’ll own month-end for Flock’s finance team and strengthen the controls around it, running the close and producing the variance analysis and MI that FP&A and our senior team use for budgeting and reporting. We’re automating finance on our new platform and the team uses AI every day, so there’s plenty of room to improve how the work gets done as well as doing it.

It suits a recently qualified accountant with strong core accounting from practice, who has already improved a process or control somewhere and wants to keep growing within the finance team.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the month-end close from start to finish so it lands accurately and on time.

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and post journals, keeping the ledger clean and well evidenced.

• Run variance analysis and build the monthly MI pack, explaining what moved and why.

• Strengthen our financial controls and automate manual steps wherever you find them.

• Prepare our VAT returns and assist with group reporting.

• Work with FP&A so the numbers behind budgets and senior reporting are right.

• Support the annual audit and work alongside our external auditors.

• Use AI tools in your daily work to speed up reconciliations, analysis and reporting, and share what works with the team.

• Pick up ad hoc finance projects, including R&D tax claims if you have the experience.

What you’ll need

• An ACA qualification, ideally recently qualified, although we’ll also consider strong ACCA or CIMA candidates.

• A practice background with hands‑on month‑end experience, whether from non‑audit client work or time in industry. Big 4 or not makes no difference to us.

• Solid core accounting and close attention to detail, including balance sheet reconciliations, journals and variance analysis.

• Experience strengthening financial controls or improving a finance process, with an example you can talk us through.

• Curiosity and ambition, with the drive to push things forward and keep learning.

• An interest in AI. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should already be using it at work or in your own time and want to do more with it.

Nice to have:

• Audit experience.

• Experience using NetSuite.

• Experience automating finance processes.

• Exposure to R&D tax claims.

• Experience in the tech sector.

Benefits

• 25 days of holiday (+ Bank Holidays)

• Share Incentive Plan

• Workplace Pension

• Private Medical Insurance (including Dental Optical & Mental Health support options)

• Various Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Holiday Purchase, Tech, Gym, Cycle to Work, Electric Vehicle, Private Medical Insurance for families

• Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay

• £1000 toward relevant professional qualifications

• £500 per annum towards learning and development

• 3 days paid leave for L&D purposes

We work hybrid, typically three days a week in our Central London office (fewer office days can be accommodated for longer commute times), a few minutes from Moorgate and Liverpool Street. Visits to client sites, conferences and broker offices count towards office days.

Making the world quantifiably safer takes more than good data. It takes a team where different perspectives are heard, and that’s a priority here. We insure fleets and drivers from every background, and we know a team built the same way makes sharper decisions and a better product for our customers. So we hire on merit, full stop, and we actively encourage applications from everyone. If you don’t tick every box, apply anyway. Just come as your genuine self: the qualities and experiences only you bring are exactly what we want.