Job Description

You’ll need to be a Self-starter, with good attention to detail, persistence, and the ability to organize and manage work to strict deadlines. You’ll provides accounting support for debt issuances and is responsible for coordinating the management judgments process, including reviewing papers on IFRS accounting judgments and preparing summary papers for Executive and Board Committees.

The difference you’ll make:

• Producing the UK Annual Reports, Half Yearly Financial Reports, and Q1/Q3 Interims with a focus on populating and reviewing the Financial Statements and Risk review, as well as reviewing other key disclosures, working with preparer teams to ensure that all the data complies with IFRS and other UK and EU disclosure requirements, including Sustainability & Responsible Banking matters such as climate risk and ESG.
• Producing the US Annual Reports on Form 20-Fand Half Yearly Financial Reports on Form 6-Kworking with preparer teams to ensure that all the data complies with US SEC disclosure requirements, including Sustainability & Responsible Banking matters such as climate risk and ESG.
• Working closely with the Technical Accounting team and being able to interpret and implement updates and recommendations to regulatory requirements issued by FRC and DECL.
• Reviewing the accuracy of the electronic linkages, mappings and other elements of the reporting platform used to prepare the statutory documents.
• Reviewing the accounting management judgment papers on a quarterly basis.
• Supporting the Funding team with debt issuances, including reviews of draft prospectuses, and negotiation of engagement, management representation and comfort letters with external auditors, legal counsel and underwriters
• Reviewing the Quarterly Management Statements produced and published by Investor Relations
• Ensuring effective operation of internal controls over the statutory reporting process.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members, including part-qualified staff, apprentices, graduates and contractors.

Benefits

You’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from us, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in company’s success by investing in our share plans

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong experience of IFRS, as well as Sustainability & Responsible Banking matters including climate risk and ESG
• Strong writing skills, suitable for inclusion in published documents. You’ll also need to have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with other teams
• Experience of financial services
• Experience of the UK public company reporting environment
• Experience of structured reporting, including inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL)
• Experience of Wdesk reporting platform