Financial Accountant

Department: Corporate Accounting & Tax

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Jersey

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of monthly close activities for assigned entities, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations and reviews of financial results.
• Prepare and support accurate, timely monthly and Group reporting, including management information, recurring finance reports and investigation of significant movements and variances.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of reporting processes, including the use of data visualisation and automation tools.

• Prepare and support regulatory submissions across key jurisdictions (e.g., Jersey, UK, Switzerland, Singapore), ensuring compliance and timely delivery.
• Maintain supporting schedules and reconciliations to ensure regulatory submissions are accurate, complete and delivered within required deadlines.
• Work with Finance, Legal and Compliance to understand and implement changes to regulatory reporting requirements.

• Prepare statutory financial statements and supporting schedules for entities across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support Group consolidation and the preparation of year-end reporting adjustments.
• Coordinate audit requests, prepare supporting documentation and liaise directly with external auditors. 
• Ensure audit queries and outstanding matters are investigated and resolved on a timely basis.

• Support the effective operation of accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, payroll accounting and cash-management processes.
• Prepare and review bank, cash and other key balance sheet reconciliations. 
• Support the preparation, review and control of payments across multiple entities, currencies and banking platforms. 
• Maintain accurate intercompany balances and support the resolution of reconciling items. 
• Ensure finance processes operate in accordance with established controls, approval requirements and internal policies.

• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, including the preparation of supporting schedules and analysis of actual results against budget and forecast.
• Investigate significant variances and provide clear explanations to relevant stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance processes. 
• Use finance systems and reporting tools effectively to improve accuracy, efficiency and control. 
  Support the implementation and enhancement of finance systems, workflows and reporting solutions. 
• Document and maintain key finance processes and controls.

• Contribute to Finance and cross-functional projects, including new entity implementation, banking initiatives, system changes and process improvement.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and accounting support as required.
• Undertake additional responsibilities appropriate to the role as the Finance function continues to evolve.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in financial reporting.
• Experience within financial services, asset management, audit or another complex multi-entity environment across jurisdictions and/or currencies.
• Good working knowledge of Excel, with the ability to analyse, reconcile and interpret financial data.
• Solid understanding of balance sheet accounting, accruals, prepayments, intercompany accounting and foreign-currency transactions.
• Experience preparing statutory accounts and supporting external audits.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to investigate issues independently.
• Good systems aptitude and experience using ERP or finance systems.
• A proactive approach, with a willingness to take ownership, investigate issues, follow matters through to resolution and continuously improve existing processes.
• Able to manage a number of deadlines and priorities without losing sight of detail.

• Exposure to regulatory reporting in jurisdictions such as Jersey, the UK or Singapore. 
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP and reporting or data visualisation tools. 
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business.

• Educated to degree level, or equivalent, or higher; and
• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or similar)

Benefits