Salary
💰 £43,803 - £48,670 per year
About the role
- Preparing a large number and wide range of manual Retail product journals to support the Retail monthly financial reporting
- Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning Month end deliverables
- The candidate requires strong excel skills and continuous improvement mindset
- Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives
- Supporting the wider team to perform the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including ARC certification and supporting the assurance of the ledger at month end
- Supporting resolution of control issues or balance sheet breaks
- Ensuring that a legal entity lens is applied to financial control activity
- Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in Retail Finance, other GFS teams, external auditors and other third parties
- Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities
Requirements
- Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience
- Strong excel skills with experience of Financial systems and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements
- Passion for Financial control
- Team collaborator with strong stakeholder management
- Risk and control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework knowledge advantageous
- Desire to consistently improve the control environment through use of automation and AI tools