Senior Group Reporting Accountant

About the Role

Role:
Senior Group Reporting Accountant. Level 4, Finance Department, Southampton, Permanent contract.

As a Senior Group Reporting Accountant, you will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial and regulatory reporting across Quilter Group and its subsidiary entities. Working within the Financial and Regulatory Reporting team in Group Finance, you will support the preparation of statutory financial statements and regulatory returns, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, you will help maintain the integrity and quality of Quilter’s external reporting framework while contributing to ongoing improvements in reporting processes and controls.

• Prepare statutory financial statements under IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Prepare regulatory returns.
• Complete reporting, disclosure, consolidation and control processes for month‑end, quarter‑end and year‑end reporting cycles for both financial and regulatory reporting, ensuring high quality and deadlines.
• Safeguard the quality of financial and regulatory reporting by ensuring appropriate reporting systems, processes, procedures and controls are in place.
• Work with Technology to maintain the general ledger account hierarchies within Workday and business processes relating to financial and regulatory reporting.
• Provide information and explanations to the Group’s external auditors.

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with strong post‑qualification experience in financial and regulatory reporting.
• Good knowledge and understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Practical experience of financial reporting processes and controls.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate, high‑quality reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to change in a complex and changing environment.
• Experience of process improvement and reporting simplification activity.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

• Reporting in the UK financial services industry.
• Consolidated reporting.
• Regulatory reporting under the Investment Firms Prudential Regime.
• Regulatory reporting under Solvency II.
• Working with large, complex data sets.
• Experience with the financial and regulatory reporting software used by Quilter (including CDM and Workday).

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days).
• Quilter Incentive Scheme – all employees eligible to participate.
• Pension Scheme – non‑contributory company pension scheme, with option to boost through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance – single cover standard with options to increase cover to include partner or children.
• Life Assurance – 4× salary.
• Income Protection – 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan – Jersey employees only.
• Flexible benefits available to UK employees, payable via salary deduction.

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive. We are committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect.

Our people come from all kinds of backgrounds and have a wide range of expertise, so we welcome your application regardless of your beliefs, culture, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation and or disability. If you need any reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, require information in an alternative format or have any questions around accessibility, we will try our very best to accommodate.