11:FS
- Financial Reporting Manager
Financial Reporting Manager
Finance · London, United Kingdom
Job description
11:FS is on a mission to change the fabric of financial services. Our Ventures practice builds challenger propositions globally, like we did for Natwest with Mettle. Our Pulse team creates a benchmarking tool used by the likes of Monzo, Starling, Natwest and Tesco Bank. On top of all of that, we’re a media company, our Growth team generate a stream of content that supports our brand and changes the conversation - not necessarily in that order. Our Foundry team is creating a fintech building machine by leveraging our experience and history of building multiple fintech banks and other propositions.
We truly live our values at 11:FS, and they are critical to your entire journey here. ‘Cultural Add’ is as, if not more, important as pure technical fit, and as part of your interview process we’ll deep dive into our values and your beliefs. Everyone at 11:FS fits our 4 core values: Team, Attitude, Communication and Impact, and this remains at the core of our growth.
At 11:FS we see ourselves as the challenger team dedicated to helping banks and FS players transform themselves and the industry we love. For us this means rethinking what it takes to operate in financial services top to bottom to help our partners build and launch next generation digital propositions around the globe.
We are designing and launching new fintech startups for our clients and ourselves and treat every opportunity like a business, not a project. To do this we hire great people and get out of their way.
What you’ll be doing:
This is a great opportunity for an ACA or ACCA qualified person with strong financial accounting experience and keen to grow their career in finance.
Working in a small Finance Operations and Reporting team reporting to the Finance Director, you will:
- Own Month End preparation of consolidated, company and divisional Management Accounts which includes P&L, BS and Cash flow statements
- Oversee the year-end audit process and be the point of contact for external auditors
- Complete all monthly balance sheet reconciliations with relevant supporting documentation.
- Be a business partner to a number of cost centres in the business providing understanding and insight to the numbers and variances.
- Producing budgets and rolling forecasts for assigned cost centres and provide in-depth financial analysis to senior management of cost centres
- Maintain and manage a number of our key reporting and forecasting google sheets ensuring their integrity and accuracy.
- Prepare and submit company taxes including VAT and R&D tax claims
- Work with the team to shape the processes and controls to produce best in class timely, accurate and informative financial reporting whilst building a strong control environment and high level of service to internal customers.
About you
- You will be a qualified accountant with a recognised professional body (ideally ACA or ACCA) with a good understanding of UK GAAP.
- You will have strong system skills including advanced levels of excel and/or google sheets.
- You will have experience in dealing with auditors and in resolving audit queries.
- You will have a good attention to detail. With understanding of the data this will allow you to pick up any flags or discrepancies quickly and efficiently.
- You will be able to manage your time effectively and have great organisational skills, working with the senior finance team when you require support.
- You will be collaborative and an able communicator. Working as a team is key to success and building relationships is at the heart of your job.
- You should be self-motivated, resourceful and purposeful, eager to contribute to change in an exciting, fast paced, growth environment.
- You will be a creative problem solver. Participating in conversations and developing processes with solution-forward thinking.
- Most importantly, you’ll have a willingness to learn and be keen to grow your career in finance.
We strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. 11:FS is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
