Finance, Financial Accountant, Vice President

Overview

In this role you will own key close and regulatory reporting activities within BTIG’s London Finance team. You will drive month-end and regulatory deliverables, linking technical accounting with strong controls to ensure accurate IFRS reporting and FCA submissions. You’ll partner with Operations, Treasury, Risk and Compliance to maintain high-quality outputs in a fast-paced, regulated environment. This is a hands-on position with visibility across audits and regulatory returns, offering scope to shape financial controls and reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post journal entries (accruals, prepaids, allocations, intercompany, revenue and expense)
• Own month-end/quarter-end close activities including balance sheet substantiation and resolution of reconciling items
• Maintain core accounting schedules (fixed assets, leases, accruals, broker clearing balances, commissions/fees, intercompany) and support sign-off of balances
• Support preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS and firm policies
• Assist with variance analysis vs prior period/budget and provide management commentary
• Assist with UK regulatory reporting deliverables (FCA regulatory returns MiFIDPRU and related reports)
• Provide financial data and schedules supporting ICARA process
• Prepare audit-ready schedules and support external audits (statutory and CASS where applicable)
• Utilize accounting systems and platforms (OMS/EMS, clearing and settlement reports) to reconcile accounts and analyze large datasets
• Demonstrate advanced Excel; Workday and Netsuite experience is desirable

Key requirements

• 3-4 years’ accounting and audit experience within financial services (ideally FCA-regulated broker-dealer or MiFID investment firm)
• Newly qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA (or equivalent)
• Exposure to MiFIDPRU/IFPR regulatory reporting, ICARA support and/or CASS processes (where applicable)
• Strong ownership mentality and accountability for end-to-end deliverables
• Control-minded with ability to escalate issues in a regulated environment
• Comfortable in a fast-paced brokerage environment with time-sensitive deliverables
• Maintains confidentiality and handles sensitive financial/regulatory information
• authorised to work in the U.K. (note: sponsorship not offered)

• ownership and accountability
• proactive stakeholder engagement
• time management under tight deadlines
• Advanced Excel
• Workday (desirable)
• Netsuite (desirable)

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