Finance Manager

Fordham Talent Partnership; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fordham Talent Partnership is seeking a qualified accountant to own core financial control processes within a fast‑scaling, regulated banking environment. You will drive month‑end close, balance sheet and P&L integrity, and support regulatory submissions, while collaborating with Product, Risk, and Operations.

The role blends technical accounting depth with forward‑looking commercial insight, across a hybrid finance team focused on accuracy, controls, and business impact.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with professional body.
• Strong experience in financial control, audit, or financial reporting in banking or regulated FS.
• Exposure to FP&A, commercial finance, or performance analysis.
• Experience with complex datasets and financial systems.
• Desirable: experience in a challenger bank or fintech.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate month-end close, including journals, reconciliations, substantiation and control checks.
• Own key balance sheet and P&L lines, ensuring completeness, accuracy, IFRS compliance.
• Maintain high-quality documentation, audit trails, and controls for a regulated banking environment.
• Support production of statutory accounts and regulatory submissions.
• Lead investigations into variances, control breaks, and data issues, driving remediation.
• Partner with external auditors, managing queries and ensuring a controlled, timely close.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Financial reporting

IFRS knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Challenger bank experience

Stakeholder communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

This is a high‑impact, hybrid role at the centre of a fast‑scaling, regulated banking environment. You’ll own core financial control processes while also driving forward‑looking insight, planning, and commercial decision support. It’s a breadth role for someone who thrives in pace, wants real ownership, and can operate across both the technical and commercial sides of finance.

You’ll sit in a lean, flat team where judgement matters, data flows fast, and finance is deeply connected to product, risk, operations, and customer outcomes.

What You’ll Own

• Deliver accurate month‑end close, including journals, reconciliations, substantiation, and control checks.
• Own key balance sheet and P&L lines, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and IFRS compliance.
• Maintain high‑quality documentation, audit trails, and controls suitable for a regulated banking environment.
• Support production of statutory accounts and regulatory submissions
• Lead investigations into variances, control breaks, and data issues, driving remediation and continuous improvement.
• Partner with external auditors, managing queries and ensuring a controlled, timely close.

FP&A, Insight & Commercial Support

• Analyse customer behaviour, product economics, and unit economics to highlight risks, opportunities, and required interventions.
• Partner with Product, Risk, and Operations to ensure financial data is consistent, reconciled, and aligned across the bank.
• Support pricing, profitability analysis, and business cases for new initiatives.
• Build models that help the bank understand performance, sensitivity, and strategic options.

Process, Systems & Change

• Improve finance processes to make them faster, cleaner, and more scalable as the bank grows.
• Contribute to enhancements across core systems (ledger, planning tools, reporting platforms).
• Strengthen the financial control framework, identifying gaps and implementing improvements.
• Ensure financial processes adhere to internal policies, regulatory requirements, and the bank’s risk appetite.
• Support development of MI packs for ExCo, Board, and regulatory committees.

About You

Experience & Background

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong experience in financial control, audit, or financial reporting, ideally within banking, lending, or regulated FS.
• Exposure to FP&A, commercial finance, or performance analysis.
• Experience working with complex datasets and financial systems.
• Prior experience in a challenger bank, fintech, or high‑growth FS environment is highly desirable.

Skills & Mindset

• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail, but commercially aware and able to prioritise what matters.
• Comfortable switching between technical accounting depth and forward‑looking commercial insight.
• Proactive, improvement‑minded, and confident challenging the status quo.
• Strong communicator who can work effectively with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Product, Operations, and Technology.