Group Reporting Accountant

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026).

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 planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

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, including our colleagues.

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.

You will have

• 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…