[Hiring] Financial Accountant Industrial Placement @Griffin

Role Description

This is a one-year placement that gives you hands-on experience inside the finance function of a real, operating tech-led bank. You'll work across everything from journals and reconciliations to AI-powered process improvements, getting hands-on with the platforms and workflows that keep a regulated bank running. From day one, you'll own real work that the team depends on and leave with practical skills in accounting, systems, and emerging tools that most graduates only encounter in theory.

What Success Looks Like

• Kept accounts payable, expenses, and month-end processes running accurately and on time.
• Supported a year-end audit.
• Brought genuine improvements to at least one area of workflows by streamlining manual and time-consuming processes into something faster, repeatable, and auditable.

To Do This You'll Own

• Supporting the preparation of month-end P&L and balance sheet statements alongside the Financial Accounting Manager.
• Preparing and posting accounting journals with accuracy and care.
• Managing the accounts payable system and process end-to-end.
• Running the expense claims process and keeping it moving smoothly.
• Supporting billing and accounts receivable reconciliation.
• Helping with the year-end audit process and departmental (Guild) reporting.
• Developing new accounting procedures and building data tools — including using AI — to make processes faster, more accurate, and more repeatable.

Qualifications

• Enrolled on a Finance related degree and are on-track to achieve a 2.1.
• A genuine passion for numbers and how they tell a story about a business.
• Exceptional attention to detail — you notice the thing that doesn't add up.
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand why, not just what.
• The drive to improve how things work, with the organisational skills to follow through.
• Confidence with spreadsheets and a willingness to get fluent in new tools quickly.
• A love of writing — contributing to written documentation with clarity and readability.

Bonus Points

• Any prior work experience in financial services — even brief exposure helps.
• Experience using AI tools to manage, clean, or analyse data.
• Familiarity with tax concepts or compliance requirements.

Benefits

• Salary: £25,000.
• Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK.
• Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year.
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays, and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year).
• Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together.
• Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme.
• Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG.
• Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva.
• Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service.
• AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools.
• Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.