A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Financial Accountant looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!
We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …
What you’ll be doing
* Support the Head of Financial Projects to effectively manage financial and regulatory projects, outside the monthly accounting cycle.
* Ensure the teams work effectively to produce accurate financial information on a timely basis.
* Ensure adequate financial controls are in place and that appropriate procedures are developed and maintained to minimise risks.
* Project manage and assist with the delivery of the external audit, ensuring a positive working relationship between parties and milestones are reached by an appropriate deadline.
* Manage expectations between external auditors and group wide staff to ensure the timely submission of requested deliverables.
* Support and assist the development of effective production of financial and regulatory returns, including the generation of accounting papers for the Group and other papers to be considered at board level.
* Assist the wider Group Finance teams with the preparation of financial statements and relevant statutory returns for the Group, bank and subsidiary companies.
* Ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements and play an active role in the development and reporting of new accounting standards or regulatory returns.
* Analyse and review data to identify areas of improvement in relation to financial accounting. Field inquiries from colleagues, auditors and stakeholders to ensure clear and concise financial information is promptly relayed.
* Support the teams with decision making and encourage team members to develop problem solving skills. Review the financial data and reporting processes to ensure the quality and accuracy of the financial records is being maintained to acceptable standards.
About You
What you’ll bring to the team
* You will have a strong understanding of financial principles, financial analysis, and financial controls, particularly as applied in the financial services industry.
* You will have the ability to analyse complex financial data, identify trends and make data-driven decisions is critical.
* You will have an in-depth knowledge of the operations of the bank and the products and services it provides is critical to applying meaning to the information being communicated.
* You will have a good awareness of the accounting, reporting, governance frameworks applicable to UK PLCs will also be developed as part of the role.
* You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills are of paramount importance to ensure clear and concise financial information is relayed to team members and stakeholders.
* You will also need to be able to support and motivate other staff and to manage projects and your workload effectively.
* You will be able to identify and mitigate financial risks in order to protect the business from detriment while embracing change and ensuring the efficient adoption of new technologies to streamline processes will also be valuable.
About Us
Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.
Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.
Working hours
Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours per week, Hybrid role, minimum three days in the office.
Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.
What can we offer you?
* Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave.
* Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate.
* Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees.
* Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension.
* Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment.
* Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more.
* Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year.
* Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover.
Be flexible
We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.
Be yourself
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.
Be heard
We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.
Be well
We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.
Be better
We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.
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