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About the Role

Monzo is seeking a proactive, enthusiastic, and commercially-minded accountant to join their Financial Control Team. This role is crucial for supporting business expansion, ensuring accurate financial data, and optimizing financial control processes with technology. You will play a key role in building a world-class finance function and scaling Monzo in a controlled manner.

Responsibilities

• Manage a tight process with the internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process, including ownership of leases, managing accruals schedules, and group consolidation.
• Support junior team members and review their work.
• Understand the business and products to write insightful management commentary.
• Work with engineers and data teams to automate production elements of the role.
• Understand accounting systems and ensure all features are utilized to minimize manual reporting.
• Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose efficient and scalable process solutions.
• Maintain existing and develop new controls to protect financial data and the balance sheet substantiation process.
• Support the year-end process by working with external auditors and the Financial Reporting squad.
• Review new products, assess accounting implications, and implement them in the banking platform and accounting system.
• Work with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and propose accounting policy matters for new products.
• Help maintain the integrity of the chart of accounts and financial static data.
• Resolve miscellaneous inquiries and support the overall finance team, including forecasting, valuations, bank transfers, transfer pricing, and tax policy research.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant with 1-2 years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience in financial reporting/controlling teams.
• Experience in a retail banking environment is ideal.
• Great eye for detail.
• Fascination with the banking and regulatory landscape.
• Good understanding of key financial controls.
• Self-starter, comfortable tackling tasks independently.
• Ability to translate complex information into simple terms.
• Interest in using data.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.

Skills

• Financial accounting
• Financial control
• SAP S4/HANA
• SQL
• Automation

Location

• London
• Cardiff
• Distributed working within the UK

Work Type

• Flexible working hours
• Ad hoc meetings in London

Experience Level

• 1-2 years post-qualification experience

Education Level

• Qualified accountant

Salary/Compensations

• L30 Finance framework salary
• Incentive Awards tied to performance

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• £1,000 learning budget each year
• Macbooks provided
• Extra support for work-from-home setup for remote workers

About the Company

• Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking complexities.
• The company has grown significantly over 10 years, offering personal and business accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, kids accounts, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions.
• Monzo is known for its hot coral cards, get-paid-early feature, financial education on social media, and award-winning customer service.
• The company focuses on solving problems and changing lives through its products.

Equal Opportunity

• All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
• Monzo is committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all people.