About the Role
We're looking for a qualified Senior Financial Accountant to join our Financial Control team, supporting our Buyagift and Red Letter Days brands. You'll play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting, maintaining strong financial controls, and providing valuable insight that helps drive business decisions. This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive accountant who enjoys combining financial and management accounting, partnering with stakeholders across the business, and continuously improving processes in a fast-paced environment. You'll take ownership of key areas of the financial statements, support the month-end close, and help ensure the business has the financial information it needs to make informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own key areas of the profit and loss account and balance sheet, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Produce insightful management reporting that supports business performance and decision-making.
- Partner with FP&A and stakeholders across the wider business to understand financial performance and support budgeting activities.
- Maintain a robust financial control environment, identifying risks and contributing to successful audits.
- Take ownership of key month-end activities, ensuring deadlines are consistently met to a high standard.
- Review, challenge and improve existing financial processes, identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies across the team and wider business.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) with at least two years' post-qualified experience and strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Proven experience across both financial and management accounting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, can-do approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across the business.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, accurate work.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders, including colleagues outside of Finance.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a small team while confidently taking ownership of individual responsibilities.
- Experience within technology, e-commerce or retail is advantageous but not essential.
Skills
- Financial accounting
- Management accounting
- Financial reporting
- Financial controls
- Stakeholder management
- Process improvement
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Communication skills
- Microsoft Excel
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working (unless specified otherwise, 2 days a week in the office)
Experience Level
- Senior
- At least two years' post-qualified experience
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Generous pension plans
- Staff discounts
- Share schemes
- Private healthcare (UK)
- Dental
- Life insurance
- Mental health support
- Dog-friendly offices
- Generous holidays
- Learning allowances
- Coaching
- Development programs
- Regular awards
- Charity support
- Length of service awards
- Volunteering days
About the Company
- Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK’s leading gift experience provider, turning special moments into extra-special memories with a gifting range of 4000+ experiences.
- As part of the Moonpig Group, our vision is to become the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market.
- Our mission is to spread happiness through thoughtful, joy-filled experiences.
- We’re proud to share that our vision is to become the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market. Our mission is to spread happiness through thoughtful, joy-filled experiences. People are at the heart of everything we do. Since joining the Moonpig Group in 2022, we’ve been powered by strong values, bold ideas and a shared passion for making a real difference. Here, you’ll have the chance to shape the kind of experiences people never forget – and help us build connections that truly matter.
Equal Opportunity
- At Moonpig Group, we’re all about creating a workplace where everyone feels they truly belong. We celebrate what makes each of us unique, whether that’s our background, how we work best, or what matters most to us.
- From working parents who need flexible hours to neurodiverse colleagues with specific working styles, we’re here to support our people in ways that work for them. Because when you feel valued and included, you can thrive, and so can we.
- We’re proud to have a number of employee-led groups driving this forward, including our LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity and EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) communities, plus our Group-wide EDI committee. These teams help make sure every voice is heard and every idea has a place.
- We know that diversity fuels creativity, innovation and connection, and that’s why we’ll keep pushing for progress. Together, we’re building a culture where everyone feels safe, supported, and free to be their brilliant, authentic selves.
- If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply and share your pronouns if you are comfortable to do so - If you have any reasonable adjustment requests throughout the interview process please let us know on your application or speak to the Recruiter.
