Financial Reporting Accountant

Together; Heald Green; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company located in Heald Green is seeking a Financial Reporting Accountant to spearhead external financial reporting, including annual reports and quarterly audits. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing external audit requests and coordinating financial documentation while ensuring timely completion of statutory accounts. Candidates should have in-depth experience in IFRS reporting and the ability to work collaboratively with senior stakeholders. The role supports further skill development in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday

Free access to company holiday homes

Discretionary annual bonus

Life assurance and critical illness cover

Free local gym access

Responsibilities

• Prepare the Group’s annual report and accounts, subsidiary statutory accounts, and quarterly external reporting.
• Coordinate external audit requests, ensuring timely responses and accurate documentation.
• Produce statutory accounts work papers according to reporting timetables.
• Draft quarterly and annual timetables, managing key delivery dates and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Relevant experience in reporting under IFRS

Statutory accounting, audit or management accounting experience

Effectively communicating and managing senior stakeholders

Attention to detail

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office

Desire to learn and develop new skills

Experience with producing statutory reporting for listed companies

Experience with derivatives and hedge accounting

Experience of BI tools

Job description

• Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)
• Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW)
• Contract type: Permanent

Company Description

Benefits of working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

Job Description

As a Financial Reporting Accountant, you will prepthe Group’s external financial reporting, including the Group annual report and accounts, quarterly interim reporting and subsidiary statutory accounts and related work papers. You'll also assist in other areas such as accounting queries, day to day management of external auditors, process improvements and ad hoc projects.

As a Financial Reporting Accountant, we are looking for someone to:

• Prepthe Group annual report and accounts, subsidiary annual statutory accounts, and quarterly external reporting to agreed deadlines and periodic financial reporting to support treasury transactions, ensuring accurate financial information is produced
• Co-ordinateexternal audit requests ensuring requests are responded to on a timely basis and accurate documentation is provided, whilst effectively communicating with the external audit team and Group Finance
• Producestatutory accounts work papers in accordance with reporting timetables, whilst also appropriately addressing review comments
• Drafting of quarterly and annual timetables, ensuring key delivery dates are met, updating on progress, and managing stakeholders across the projects

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in reporting under IFRS
• Statutory accounting, audit or management accounting experience
• Effectively communicating and managing senior stakeholders.
• Strong focus on the quality of work with attention to detail
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office products
• Desire to learn and develop new skill
• Experience with producing statutory reporting for listed companies, within a Bank or financial services business
• Experience with derivatives and hedge accounting
• Experience of BI tools

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Additional Information

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Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.

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