Financial Reporting Accountant

Nucleus Financial; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Non-contributory pension

Performance bonus

Flexible working options

Job summary

Nucleus Financial is seeking a Financial Reporting Accountant to join our team. You will be responsible for accurate and timely financial and regulatory reporting across the Group, ensuring compliance with IFRS and UK GAAP, and driving improvements in reporting processes.

You will collaborate with Risk, Compliance and Capital teams, prepare MiFID submissions, support audits, and contribute to high-quality information that supports customers.

Qualifications

• Financial reporting experience and production of statutory accounts and monthly/quarterly management information.
• Experience with MiFID and IPRU-INV reporting.
• Proficient in Excel and handling large data sets.
• Understanding of the UK regulatory landscape.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and deliver accurate and timely financial statements in accordance with IFRS/UK GAAP.
• Prepare quarterly MiFID reporting submissions across the Group.
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impact on reporting processes.
• Identify and implement improvements in reporting processes and automation.
• Provide monthly management information and trend analysis for entities.
• Support audits and strengthen internal controls around financial data.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Capital teams to align inputs.

Skills

Financial reporting

MiFID reporting

Excel

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Financial Reporting Accountant to join our team. This role is responsible for the preparation and delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant financial and regulatory reporting across the Group. Working within a dynamic environment, you will play a key role in ensuring adherence to accounting standards and regulatory requirements, while driving continuous improvements in reporting processes and systems.

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Financial Reporting Accountant to join our team. This role is responsible for the preparation and delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant financial and regulatory reporting across the Group. Working within a dynamic environment, you will play a key role in ensuring adherence to accounting standards and regulatory requirements, while driving continuous improvements in reporting processes and systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Risk, Compliance, and Capital, providing valuable insight into financial performance and supporting informed decision-making. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the enhancement of reporting capabilities, strengthen controls, and support the organisation’s commitment to delivering high-quality financial information and positive customer outcomes.

Key accountabilities include:

• Preparation and delivery of accurate and timely financial statements in accordance with relevant accounting standards (IFRS, UK GAAP).
• Prepare quarterly MiFID reporting submissions for relevant entities across the Group.
• Monitor changes in regulatory requirements and assess the impact on existing reporting processes.
• Identify and implement improvements in financial reporting processes, automation, and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy of financial information production.
• Prepare monthly management information for relevant entities across the Group, providing insight on financial performance and trend analysis against prior periods and budget.
• Assist in the development and implementation of controls and processes to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial and regulatory information.
• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and Capital teams to gather required inputs and ensure alignment across regulatory frameworks.
• Support internal and external audits related to regulatory and financial reporting.
• Assist in the automation and improvement of reporting processes and systems.

Participation in

• Working Groups as required

Achieving KPI’s/Targets including

• Achieving required timelines, completeness and accuracy measures.
• Provide insight to internal/external stakeholders on financial and regulatory performance.
• Liaison with internal/external stakeholders.
• Maintaining appropriate level of technical skills for self.
• Delivering ad hoc tasks/projects when required.

The below points need to be included in every job description

• Take responsibility in everything you do to deliver good outcomes for our customers.
• Positively demonstrate the Nucleus Smart, Heart and Courage values and behaviours.
• Ensure compliance with Code of Conduct at all times.

About you

You will have:

• Financial reporting experience and production of statutory accounts and monthly/quarterly management information
• Experience with MiFID and IPRU-INV reporting.
• Proficient in Excel and experience working with large data sets.
• Understanding of the UK regulatory landscape.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

You will be comfortable:

• Working flexibly with some time required at the office
• Travelling when and where required to Nucleus business locations to fulfil your responsibilities.

A little about us

We’re the Nucleus Financial Platforms group and we help make retirement more rewarding. People come first - whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we’ve shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too. Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact. Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.

Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus

As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion. For us it’s not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector. More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.

At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.

If you’d like to find out more about us or the role, get in touch with Hannah in our People team.