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About the Role

This role is well-suited to a qualified accountant with early post-qualification experience who is keen to deepen their technical accounting knowledge in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. The successful candidate will support core accounting and reporting processes while working closely with senior team members across the business.

Responsibilities

• Support the month-end and year-end close processes for multiple entities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting
• Prepare and post journal entries for trading and servicing entities, including trading-related balances, intercompany transactions, accruals, prepayments, leases, and fixed assets
• Perform balance sheet substantiation and reconciliations, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of general ledger records
• Assist with the preparation of expense allocations, profit-sharing calculations, and transfer pricing calculations, including related journal entries
• Prepare statutory financial statements in compliance with IFRS
• Support year-end audit processes, liaising with external auditors and responding to audit queries in a timely manner
• Contribute to technical accounting research, accounting policy documentation, and the implementation of new accounting standards
• Liaise with Tax to support compliance with transfer pricing policies and other regulatory requirements
• Support cash and treasury activities, including bank reconciliations
• Own VAT accounting and VAT return preparation, ensuring accurate and timely indirect tax reporting and compliance
• Coordinate corporate tax compliance activities with external advisors and support employment tax reporting requirements in partnership with Payroll
• Assist with the documentation, implementation, testing, and ongoing monitoring of internal controls and financial governance processes
• Collaborate with Tax, Treasury, Middle Office, Risk, Procurement, and other stakeholders on business initiatives and finance-related projects
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, process optimisation, automation, and the adoption of AI-enabled tools

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA preferred)
• 1+ years of post-qualification experience in corporate accounting
• Highly motivated, detail-oriented, and able to handle multiple priorities in a complex finance environment
• Have a willingness to embrace new challenges and drive continuous improvement across finance processes as both Optiver and the role evolves, using AI and automation where appropriate
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Financial services experience is advantageous
• NetSuite experience is a plus

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 1+ years post-qualification experience

Education Level

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA preferred)

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Support on commuting expenses
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• ClassPass fitness membership
• Training and continuous learning opportunities
• Access to conferences and tech events
• International transfer opportunities

About the Company

• At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

Equal Opportunity

• Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.