Financial Close Accountant - 12 month fixed term contract

Job Posting Title

Financial Close Accountant - 12 month fixed term contract

Salary Band

£35, 691 - £48, 288

Grade: MP3

Job Description

About the Role

As a Financial Close Accountant, you'll play a key role in delivering an accurate and efficient month-end financial close process. Working closely with the Financial Operations Manager, you'll analyse financial results, prepare reports, oversee and support reconciliations, and provide valuable insight to support business decision-making.

You'll collaborate with teams across the organisation, support audit activities, and help identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, and automation within Finance.  

About You

We're looking for a qualified accountant, or someone actively working towards a professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA or ACA), with strong financial accounting experience and a solid understanding of month-end close processes.

You'll have excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate financial information clearly to a range of stakeholders. Experience with group consolidations and audit support is desirable, alongside strong Excel skills and a passion for improving systems and processes.

About us

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

Group Finance

Our functional vision is built on leadership, partnering for value, building specialised teams and ensuring our technology roadmap is based on future focused systems.The Financial Operations & Control function brings together all operational activities and centres of excellence within Finance. This includes everything from closing the ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable to payroll.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
 
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

Financial

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday  
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

Health and Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
• Two paid volunteering days’ each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at [email protected]

Company:

Newcastle Building Society