Financial & Regulatory Accountant

Join our Finance team as a Financial/Regulatory Accountant in a 12-month fixed term contract and play a key role in delivering accurate, timely and insightful reporting across a dynamic banking environment. Reporting to the Financial Control Manager, you ll support a broad range of activities spanning management accounts, Head Office reporting, UK regulatory returns and tax compliance, while helping strengthen controls and improve efficiency across the function. This opportunity would suit professionals currently working as a Financial Accountant, Regulatory Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Control Accountant or Finance Analyst looking to broaden their impact.

This is a hands-on role where you ll be deeply involved in month-end close, preparing journals, coordinating balance sheet reconciliations and analysing P&L and balance sheet movements to explain performance. You ll produce high-quality data and disclosures for regulators and Head Office, ensuring outputs are fully reconciled and robust. Alongside business-as-usual reporting, you ll contribute to budgeting and forecasting, support tax computations, and help assess the accounting impact of new products before launch.

Duration: 12-month fixed term contract

Location: Central London Hybrid working is in place with 4 days a week spent in the office, 1 day from home.

Salary: £65k - £70k base salary plus discretionary bonus and great benefits including 12.5% pension.

We re looking for a qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) with a strong financial control background, excellent technical accounting knowledge and advanced Excel skills. You must have experience of working in a Banking environment, preferably consumer banking. Experience in regulatory reporting and familiarity with tools like Power BI will be advantageous. Just as important is your mindset: you re organised, detail-focused and proactive, with the confidence to take ownership, solve problems and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.

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