Financial Accountant

Foresters Financial; Bromley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Bromley is seeking an experienced Financial Accountant to join their Financial Control team. You will be responsible for month-end and year-end processes, managing journal postings, and ensuring robust financial operations. Ideal candidates will have qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA, alongside strong Excel and reconciliation skills. This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible hybrid working (2 days per week in the office)

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Contributory pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Solid experience in financial accounting or financial control roles.
• Hands-on experience with journal posting and reconciliations.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end and year-end close with financial accounting journals.
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns and related regulatory submissions.
• Maintain monthly bank and balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Financial accounting

Excel skills

Journal posting

Reconciliations

Auto-improvement initiative

Education

Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

Job description

We have a rare opportunity for an experienced Financial Accountant to join our Financial Control team. As a team of 5 the Financial Control team are responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of all general ledger postings and key financial operations processes such as employee expenses, invoicing, supplier payments, daily banking activities, VAT returns, and other regulatory reporting.

What You’ll Be Doing

Financial accounting

• Support month-end and year-end close which includes ensuring accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and other financial accounting journals are posted in line with reporting timetables.
• Assume accountability for key financial accounting inputs such as fixed asset maintenance, prepayments, accruals, lease accounting, intercompany postings and intangible assets.

Technical accounting

• Support the financial reporting team with quarterly IFRS17 processes in accordance with the group reporting timetable.

Finance operations

• Maintain monthly bank, balance sheet and income statement reconciliations – investigating differences and preparing ageing analysis for inclusion in the Financial Controls pack.
• Review and approve invoice coding, supplier payment runs, employee expenses and provide other ongoing support to the Finance operations function as needed.

Reporting

• Prepare quarterly VAT returns, PAYE Settlement Agreement returns and Pension Relief at Source and related regulatory submissions.

Expenses

• Provide a qualitative review of expenses posted as part of the month end review as a completeness check on accruals.
• Respond to queries from suppliers, employees, and internal stakeholders including FP&A queries on expenses.

Controls

• Ensure robust controls and documentation are maintained and drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Process improvement

• Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve existing processes.
• Explore and implement technology solutions, including Excel automation, Power BI (or MIBI equivalents), and scripting tools such as Python.
• Lead or contribute to defining ‘target state’ processes and develop implementation plans to track progress through to delivery.
• Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement and control enhancements for processes and workflows across the Financial Control team.

What We’re Looking For

• Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Solid experience in financial accounting or financial control roles.
• Hands‑on experience with journal posting, reconciliations, and core financial accounting processes.
• Financial operations experiences (invoice coding, supplier payments, expenses, payments).
• Strong Excel skills.
• Ideally you will have experience in financial services or similar industry but this is not essential.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, show initiative, challenge existing processes, and drive meaningful change.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible hybrid working ( 2 days per week in the office)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme and life assurance
• Career development and learning opportunities
• A collaborative, values‑driven culture
• Access to wellbeing resources and volunteering initiatives