Join us as a Financial Controller
- Join a team that is accountable for closing and maintaining the integrity of the ledger for our Commercial & Institutional business
- You’ll be delivering an accurate understanding of the financial position, including key business drivers for material movements
- Gain valuable experience and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this challenging role
- We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be in our Edinburgh office a minimum of two days per week, with the rest of your time working from home
What you’ll do
As a Financial Controller, you’ll be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial information. You’ll be accountable for your performance and daily activity delivery, and will be expected to promote a culture of data and information quality.
You’ll establish and maintain strong working relationships with key customers and stakeholders, and deliver high-quality and consistent financial, statutory, regulatory, and management reporting outputs. You’ll comply with relevant policies and consider and elevate the adequacy and effectiveness of the business’s controls on a regular basis.
Day to day, you’ll:
- Undertake reconciliations, accounting, MI, and control activities to support the ledger close, reconciliation, substantiation, and reporting
- Support change initiatives, process improvements, and in-system implementations
- Prepare month-end accounting, such as journal preparation, reviews, and account reconciliation
- Investigate process or system issues
- Support systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
The skills you’ll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring experience in core financial and product control delivery and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit.
We’ll also look to you to have:
- Knowledge of international accounting standards
- Experience of delivering change in a financial services environment
- Robust stakeholder management skills and strong communication skills
- Experience of investigating and probing issues with cross-business impact
- An understanding of intercompany and contra account usage requirements and intercompany reconciliations and substantiation
Hours 35
Job Posting Closing Date: 28/09/2026
Ways of Working:Hybrid
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