Senior Group Reporting Accountant

About The Business

Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK’s best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of 31 December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments:
Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial advice network and national, Quilter's investment platform and multi-asset solutions and Quilter Invest, the digital savings and investment app.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management and financial planning business, Quilter Cheviot.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

Level - 4

Department - Finance

Location - Southampton

Contract - Permanent

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.

• Preparing statutory financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (“UK GAAP”).
• Preparing regulatory returns.
• Completing reporting, disclosure, consolidation and control processes for month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting cycles for both financial and regulatory reporting to a high quality and within deadlines.
• Working as part of a team to safeguard the quality of Quilter’s financial and regulatory reporting by ensuring appropriate reporting systems, processes, procedures and controls are in place.
• Working with Technology to help maintain the general ledger account hierarchies within Workday and business processes relating to financial and regulatory reporting.
• Providing 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 organisation 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

• Experience of reporting in the UK financial services industry
• Experience of consolidated reporting
• Experience of regulatory…