Financial Controller

Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Financial Controller to join them on a 6-month contact.

The ideal candidate will be a Qualified Accountant/Qualified by Experience, who has strong experience of working with Power BI/Excel (VLOOKUP's/Pivot Tables) and knows Double Entry.

This role is based in London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of a 4-day work week, with 2 days a week on site.

Key Skills and Experience

• Monitor Back Office to general ledger (BOGL) reconciliations
• Monitor control accounts (scope as defined by line manage)
• Nostro breaks investigate and assist resolution
• BOGL break. Investigation of often complex matters to determine if genuine (accounting is incorrect) or non-genuine (accounting is correct)
• BOGL breaks. Ensure assessment is well documented and with robust supporting evidence
• Control accounts identify the accounting that needs to be rectified.
• Raise manual accounting in accordance with procedures and policies where the general ledger is determined to be incorrect
• Manual accounting adheres to the applicable group procedure.
• Ensure regular follow-up of all open aged breaks and balances
• Ensuring that all controls are completed for key reporting dates.
• Complete all monthly quarterly reporting accurately and to agreed deadlines
• Escalate and bring to the attention of management any complex topics arising within the individual's scope.
• Procedures to be written, up to date, and saved as required
• BEACON (control attestation tool) Ensure it is completed within deadlines for scope as defined by manager.
• Ensuring accurate, concise and relevant data is attached where required.
• Data quality. Identify and investigate deficiencies and report to relevant stakeholders
• Work collaboratively with relevant stakeholders to improve the reliability of the accounting data and controls.
• Develop a detail understanding of the accounting interface technical set-up to facilitate efficient resolution of identified control and data deficiencies.
• Support the manager of ad-hoc tasks as required.

Required Experience

• Qualified Accountant or Qualified through experience
• Comes from a Financial Services/High Street Banking background
• Competent use with IT systems to assess issues/root causes - recommend/implement efficiency improvements.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.