Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Monzo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget £1,000/year

Macbooks provided

Work-from-home support

Job summary

Monzo in London is seeking a proactive Financial Reporting Senior Analyst to strengthen our finance function. You will work with the Financial Reporting Manager, automating production elements with our data teams and ensuring scalable controls.

The role is ideal for a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with audit experience, comfortable navigating banking regulations, ESG reporting, and partnering with business teams.

Qualifications

• Qualified chartered accountant (ACA or CA) with audit and financial reporting experience.
• Experience automating reporting processes with data teams.
• Understanding of banking regulatory and ESG reporting is a plus.
• Strong business partnering and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
• Collaborate with engineers and data teams to automate the production elements of reporting.
• Maintain accounting policies, procedures and controls to stay scalable.
• Support the full year-end process and liaise with external auditors.
• Review new products for accounting impact and implement in banking platform and systems.
• Work with the business to assess accounting policy changes for new products.
• Maintain balance sheet substantiation processes and strengthening controls.
• Assist with implementing new accounting system to minimize manual tasks.
• Support ESG sustainability reporting and disclosures.
• Prepare monthly management reports with meaningful movement analysis.
• Review accounting impact of new contracts with business and legal teams.

Skills

Financial reporting

Audit experience

Data automation

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Chartered Accountant (ACA/CA)

Tools

SQL

Job description

We're looking for a highly proactive, enthusiastic and commercially-minded Financial Reporting Senior Analyst to join our Financial Reporting team, and help us build a world-class finance function. This role would be well suited to a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with an audit background.

We have some really exciting challenges coming up like expanding into the European Union, the introduction of Monzo Mobile and Habito to our group, climate change reporting, continuing to grow our customer base, growing our lending business and adding to our marketplace. You’ll work on scaling Monzo in a controlled way, while helping us optimise our financial reporting processes with the help of technology. You’ll join the Finance team and report to our Financial Reporting Manager.

• Understanding the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
• Working with our engineers and data teams to automate the production elements of this role, allowing you to focus on the parts of the role where your knowledge and skills provide the most value.
• Understanding our accounting system and making sure we are taking advantage of all its features to minimise manual elements of reporting.
• Being responsible for ensuring our financial reporting policies, procedures and controls are up to date, relevant and useful for Monzo and importantly are scalable.
• Supporting the full year end process, from drafting the annual report to working with external auditors until final sign-off.
• Reviewing new products, assessing the accounting and implementing them in our banking platform and accounting system.
• Working with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and make proposals on accounting policy matters for new products launched.
• Maintaining existing and develop new controls that protect our financial data and our balance sheet substantiation process
• Assisting with the implementation of our new accounting system to make sure we are taking advantage of all its features to minimise manual elements of reporting
• Supporting on the production of ESG sustainability reporting and disclosures
• Preparing monthly management and adhoc reports, offering meaningful analysis of movements.
• Reviewing and assessing the accounting impact of new contracts, working closely with the business and legal team before contracts are signed to establish the correct accounting treatment.
• Supporting tight processes with our internal finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process.
• Resolving miscellaneous inquiries and supporting the overall finance team wherever needed - from forecasting and valuations, to bank transfers and tax policy research!
• You’re a qualified chartered accountant (ACA or CA) and ideally have audit experience combined with financial reporting and control experience outside of practice.
• You’re fascinated by the banking and regulatory landscape, and have a good understanding of key financial controls
• You’re a self-starter and enjoy tackling what needs doing, whether it’s making a bank transfer or pulling together reports for investors
• You’re comfortable translating complex information into simple words for people with diverse backgrounds
• Highly comfortable with leveraging data to automate reporting and drive efficiency (SQL skills would be a bonus)
• You thrive in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment
• Nice to have (one or more)
• Experience in a listed company or financial services regulated environment.
• US reporting/SOX compliance.
• Strong business partnering/commercial financial acumen.
• ESG reporting/audit of sustainability information (carbon footprint, CFD/CSRD)

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

What’s in it for you

£60,000 - £70,000 Incentive Awards tied to your performance.

This role is based in our London office and we aim to come in as a team twice a week (usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays). We're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) if required.

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

The application journey has 4 key steps

• Role Specific Interview (60 Minutes)
• Behavioural Interview (45 Minutes)

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

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