Financial Accountant - Reporting and Control

Financial Accountant - Reporting and Control

Contract: 6 month fixed term contract - full time

Location: Bruce Kenrick House, 2 Killick Street, London N1 9FL

Salary: £53,513 to £59,459 per annum pro rata for 35 hours per week.

Workplace Type: Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office

Job introduction

Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys combining strong technical expertise with leadership and continuous improvement?

We’re looking for a Financial Accountant – Reporting and Control to play a pivotal role in maintaining a robust financial control environment and delivering high-quality statutory reporting across the Group. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of financial reporting for multiple entities, lead audit delivery, and influence best practice across the wider Finance function.

You’ll be a trusted technical expert and role model, helping to ensure our financial reporting is accurate, compliant, and supports effective governance and decision-making.

What you’ll do

As the Financial Accountant – Reporting and Control, you will be responsible for statutory accounting, regulatory reporting, and audit delivery for your designated group entities, while ensuring strong financial controls and continuous improvement across financial accounting processes.

How you’ll do it

• Prepare accurate and timely quarterly and annual statutory accounts for designated group entities, including all supporting schedules.
• Perform detailed analytical reviews of financial statements to support smooth and timely interim and year-end audit delivery.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of interim and final audits for assigned entities, working closely with internal teams and external auditors.
• Ensure monthly reconciliation of intercompany balances, group investments, and borrowings, maintaining robust statutory account schedules.
• Support the preparation and submission of regulatory returns, including FVA and Companies House filings.
• Prepare and review monthly group control account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with agreed standards.
• Contribute to quarterly financial health reporting, providing clear insight into risks for Management and Audit & Risk Committee oversight.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the financial accounting and control function.
• Work collaboratively with finance business partners and heads of service to ensure timely and accurate delivery of monthly control accounts.
• Support performance tracking against agreed KPIs, enabling early identification of issues and corrective action.
• Help set departmental delivery standards and provide coaching or training where required.

The ideal candidate

You’ll be a confident, collaborative finance leader with a passion for accuracy, innovation, and developing people.

Essential:

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant with evidence of ongoing CPD.
• Proven experience in statutory financial reporting and maintaining strong financial control environments.
• Demonstrable experience managing interim and year-end audits and working effectively with external auditors.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory financial returns and filings, including FVA and Companies House.
• Ability to provide clear, expert technical accounting advice to a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at all levels.
• A collaborative leadership approach, acting as a role model who consistently reflects organisational values .

Behaviours for success

You will live our values and bring them to life through your work:

• Compassionate – putting people and residents at the heart of decisions.
• Progressive – striving for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Dependable – consistently delivering high-quality, reliable outcomes.
• Inclusive…