Management Accountant

Copper.co; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Management Accountant to ensure the accuracy of financial information. The role involves balance sheet maintenance, P&L analysis, and detailed data investigations. The ideal candidate will excel in financial data analysis and possess relevant accounting qualifications.

Benefits

27 days paid holiday

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Optical Cover

Home Working Energy Support

Pension up to 10% matched

Life Insurance cover

EAP for mental health support

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of balance sheet reconciliation.
• Experience with financial statements and accounting standards.
• Ability to interpret complex data and provide insights.

Responsibilities

• Perform balance sheet reconciliations monthly and weekly.
• Ownership of P&L accounting and analysis.
• Support FP&A with management accounts preparation.

Skills

Data Analysis

Trend Identification

Problem Solving

Education

Relevant professional accounting qualification

Tools

Excel

NetSuite

Salesforce

Job description

Department environment

Copper’s finance team provides critical information to the company's leadership to facilitate effective management, strategic decision making and provide insights into key data and metrics driving our businesses growth. Our team has several disciplines including Finance Operations, Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Revenue Operations and Procurement. Each of these teams plays an important role in supporting the wider business through day-to-day operations (commercial deal support, invoice processing, cash collection, etc.), regular reporting (budget v actuals, forecasting, cash and liquidity management etc.), performance management (KPI, sales metrics and financials) and other specialised activities (tax compliance/structuring, vendor selection etc.). Our team's goal is to be a best-in-class support function to the global Copper business and help ensure all departments performance against objectives as our business scales to build an optimum financial architecture and create value for shareholders.

Role Purpose

Copper’s Management Accountant will be a highly skilled and detail-orientated individual who will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of our financial information, to support the existing operational finance team. The role’s primary focus will be on maintenance of our balance sheet and P&L through regular reconciliation and deep dive analysis. The role is perfect for individuals who excel at analysing financial data, identifying trends and resolving discrepancies at the transactional level.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Balance sheet reconciliations, both monthly and weekly, ensuring all accounting transactional data is complete, accurate and has suitable supporting documentation.
• Ownership of P&L accounting and analysis to provide comfort all accounting transactional data is complete, accurate and has suitable supporting documentation.
• Regularly deep dive into transactional reports, performing detailed data analysis to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies across the group.
• Spot and investigate discrepancies in accounting data, resolving these independently where possible, seeking support from the operational teams and FC where required.
• Support FP&A with the preparation and maintenance of management accounts, ensuring accurate and complete department allocations are correct and performing detailed variance analysis month-on-month.
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns for multiple entities for review by the FC, Head of Finance and Head of Tax.
• Prepare detailed breakdowns and summaries for ad-hoc reporting requests to meet the needs of finance leadership.
• Work closely with wider finance team including FP&A, Tax and local finance representatives to ensure all accounting transactions are understood and logical.
• Support the FC with various tasks, including but not limited to: Month-end, Consolidation, Audit support, financial control enforcement..

Your experience, skills and knowledge

Essential

• Deep understanding of how to create, maintain and explain balance sheet reconciliation files.
• Experience of financial statements and accounting standards / principals.
• Ability to interpret complex data, identify trends and provide actionable insights.
• Proficient in relevant software (Excel, NetSuite, Salesforce).

Desirable

• Understanding of the business environment and market trends relevant to the Digital Asset, Blockchain and Financial Service industries.
• Ability to work well with others and build strong relationships.
• Experience in managing financial projects and initiatives and delivering impactful results.
• Flexibility to adapt to a fast changing financial and internal landscape as our growth and regulatory strategy develops
• Relevant professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc)

The benefits offered

• Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays
• Years of Service Days: Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years)
• Vitality Health:
• Medical Insurance: Copper provides all employees with individual cover. Medical history is disregarded, and a 24/7 virtual GP is available (£100 excess per person per year)
• Dental Insurance: Comprehensive dental cover for preventative, restorative and emergency treatment
• Audiology Cover: Employees can claim back up 80% of costs, up to £300, for any hearing tests or hearing aids
• Optical Cover: £500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80% reimbursement up to £300 for any other optician
• Menopause Support: Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause, such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner
• Vitality services also include an additional £100 for minor diagnostic tests and private prescriptions, including home diagnostics
• Headspace - Copper's policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress, improve sleep, meditate and enhance mindfulness
• Discounts and free benefits - the Vitality programme has been designed for preventative care to encourage members to improve their overall health and will reward those for doing so. Employees can access additional benefits such as 50% off running shoes, discounted health screenings, 50% off at Nuffield Health or Virgin Active gyms and much more
• Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally, Copper will provide you, in addition to your salary, with a monthly top-up of £60 or £75 (subject to your energy supplier)
• Pension up to 10% matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions
• Cycle to Work
• Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary
• EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support
• Unmind
• Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities
• Regular company events and social activities

In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.