[Hiring] Senior Financial Control Analyst @Monzo

Role Description

We're looking for a proactive, enthusiastic and commercially-minded accountant to work on our financial accounting, and help us build a world-class finance function. This role would be well suited to a qualified accountant with 2+ years of post-qualification experience.

Your day-to-day:

• Manage a tight process with the rest of our internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
• Understand the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
• Understand our accounting systems and make sure we are taking advantage of all features we can to minimise manual elements of reporting.
• Embrace the opportunity to improve and transform processes, driving incremental improvements through to adoption of AI.
• Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose solutions that make our processes efficient and scalable.
• Support our year end process working with external auditors and our Financial Reporting squad.
• Help review new products, assessing the accounting and implementing them in our banking platform and accounting system.
• Work with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and make proposals on accounting policy matters for new products launched.
• Help maintain the integrity of our chart of accounts and financial static data.
• Resolve miscellaneous inquiries and support the overall finance team wherever needed - from forecasting and valuations, to bank transfers, transfer pricing and tax policy research!

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with a few years’ post-qualification experience, ideally in financial reporting/controlling teams and working in a retail banking environment.
• Strong understanding of technical accounting standards.
• Great eye for detail.
• Fascinated by the banking and regulatory landscape, with a good understanding of key financial controls.
• Self-starter who enjoys tackling what needs doing, whether it’s making a bank transfer or pulling together reports for investors.
• Comfortable translating complex information into simple words for people with diverse backgrounds.
• Interested in using data (SQL skills would be a bonus).
• Embraces change and is motivated to improve and innovate processes.
• Thrives in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.

Requirements

• 2+ years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience in financial reporting/controlling teams.
• Understanding of technical accounting standards.
• SQL skills (bonus).

Benefits

• £56,000 - £75,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
• Flexible working hours and trust to work enough hours to do your job well.
• £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Setup to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and support for work-from-home setup.
• Plus lots more!