Operations Accountant

Axon Moore; Preston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon Moore are partnering with an established Preston business to recruit an experienced Operations Accountant. This hands-on role supports investment operations, cash management and financial reporting, working closely with internal finance teams and external partners to ensure accurate accounting and timely reporting.

You will contribute to statutory reporting, financial controls and external audit, while identifying opportunities to automate processes and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with strong experience in investment accounting.
• Proven ability in financial reporting and operational finance.
• Comfortable in deadline-driven environments and building relationships.

Responsibilities

• Oversee investment accounting activities and ensure accurate recording.
• Manage daily cash positions with fund managers and stakeholders.
• Support financial close, reconciliations and disclosures.
• Assist external audit and strengthen financial controls.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize reporting.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver operations.

Skills

Investment accounting

Financial reporting

Operational finance

Stakeholder management

Education

Accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

Axon Moore are currently partnering with an established business in Preston to recruit an experienced Operations Accountant. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established organisation and play a key role in supporting the Group’s investment operations, cash management and financial reporting activities.

This is a varied and hands-on position, working closely with internal Finance teams and key external partners. You will be responsible for supporting a range of activities including unit-linked pricing, investment accounting, daily cash management, investment managers, and third-party funding and trading arrangements.

You will also play an important role in the Group’s statutory reporting, financial controls and external audit process, while identifying opportunities to improve, streamline and enhance existing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Investment Operations & Cash Management

• Support the oversight of investment accounting activities, ensuring transactions are accurately and efficiently recorded and accounted for.
• Assist with the management and oversight of daily cash positions, working closely with Fund Managers and other key stakeholders.
• Help ensure investment operations, cash management processes and associated controls operate effectively, with issues identified and resolved promptly.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external investment partners to ensure the smooth delivery of operational activities.

Financial Reporting & External Audit

• Support the statutory financial close process, ensuring key balance sheet accounts are regularly reviewed, reconciled and supported by appropriate documentation and evidence.
• Ensure journals, accruals and financial statement disclosures are complete, accurate and delivered within agreed deadlines.
• Provide support throughout the external audit process, ensuring information and supporting documentation are provided accurately and on a timely basis.
• Support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the financial control environment, ensuring key controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
• Contribute to remediation activities and maintain high-quality supporting documentation, including process narratives and control matrices.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, accuracy and quality of statutory reporting, reconciliations and financial close processes.
• Support initiatives designed to increase automation, standardisation and consistency across financial reporting and control activities.

About You

• You will be a qualified accountant with strong experience across investment accounting, financial reporting and operational finance. You will be comfortable working in a controlled, deadline-driven environment and confident in building effective relationships with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
• You will have the opportunity to work with a broad range of stakeholders, gaining valuable exposure to the life insurance and investment environment while playing a key role in supporting the Group’s financial and investment operations.
• This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced accountant looking to broaden their exposure, take ownership across a varied remit and make a tangible contribution to improving processes, controls and reporting capabilities within an established organisation.

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis.