Financial Accountant - Reporting and Control

Financial Accountant - Reporting and Control

Location:

Notting Hill Genesis Ardrossan, SCT.

Full Time.

As a Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in maintaining a strong financial control environment across the designated group entities. Reporting into the Financial Accounting & Control team, you will prepare statutory accounts, coordinate interim and year‑end audits, and ensure regulatory reporting is delivered accurately and on time. You’ll work closely with colleagues across Finance and other business functions to provide technical accounting expertise, support continuous improvements to financial reporting, and ensure robust financial governance.

• Prepare quarterly and annual statutory accounts for designated group entities, together with supporting schedules.
• Lead analytical reviews of financial statements to facilitate smooth interim and year‑end audit processes.
• Maintain and reconcile intercompany balances, investments and borrowings, ensuring statutory accounting schedules remain accurate.
• Manage the delivery of assigned interim and final audits, working collaboratively with internal and external auditors.
• Support the preparation and submission of regulatory returns, including Financial Viability Assessments (FVA) and Companies House filings.
• Prepare monthly control account reconciliations to ensure a robust financial control framework.
• Produce quarterly financial health reporting, identifying key risks and providing assurance to management and the Audit & Risk Committee.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the Financial Accounting & Control function.
• Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to ensure financial reconciliations are completed accurately and on time.
• Contribute to departmental performance reporting, KPI monitoring and the development of best practice across the team.

• Fully qualified CCAB accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent) with evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience preparing statutory accounts and delivering financial reporting within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory financial returns and statutory filings, including Financial Viability Assessments (FVA) and Companies House submissions.
• Experience managing interim and year‑end audit processes.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge with the ability to provide expert advice across the organisation.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships across a range of stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach with a commitment to continuous improvement and delivering excellent customer service.

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation and have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply).
• Generous pension scheme.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply).
• Employee assistance – free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan.
• Staff discounts – access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more.
• Interest‑free loans – season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life assurance four times the annual salary.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and hold other diversity commitments.