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About the Role
FNZ is seeking a Global Accounting Manager to join our Group Finance team. This role offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and technically strong qualified accountant to take on a highly visible role within a fast-growing global FinTech organisation. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality consolidated reporting, supporting complex accounting matters, and partnering with senior stakeholders across the business, gaining exposure to technically challenging areas of financial reporting while helping shape the financial governance of a global organisation.
Responsibilities
- Support the preparation and delivery of statutory accounts across Group entities.
- Ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and audit ready.
- Produce key analyses supporting Group management reporting.
- Deliver profitability, margin, and performance analysis to support business decision-making.
- Contribute to the continuous enhancement of Group reporting processes and controls.
- Play a leading role in the coordination of the Group external audit process.
- Manage audit deliverables and ensure high-quality supporting documentation.
- Act as a key liaison between external auditors and regional finance teams.
- Support audit planning, issue resolution, and governance activities.
- Prepare materials and accounting updates for Audit Committee and senior leadership review.
- Provide technical accounting leadership across a range of complex accounting areas, including share-based payment accounting and IFRS 2 compliance, goodwill and intangible asset impairment assessments, and business combinations and acquisition accounting.
- Partner with multiple business functions on strategic initiatives.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity from an accounting perspective.
- Provide technical guidance to stakeholders across the Group.
- Support financial analysis and decision-making on key business initiatives.
- Contribute to continuous improvement across the wider Group Finance function.
Requirements
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent).
- Strong post-qualification experience within audit, technical accounting, Group reporting, or financial reporting.
- Excellent understanding of IFRS and statutory financial reporting requirements.
- Experience working within complex multinational organisations or professional services environments.
- Technical accounting knowledge across areas such as business combinations, impairment, share-based payments, and financial instruments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Financial services, FinTech, banking, or regulated industry experience.
- Experience supporting complex acquisition activity.
- Exposure to hedge accounting and treasury activities.
- Prior involvement in external audit coordination and governance reporting.
- Strong technical accounting expertise and professional curiosity.
- Ability to translate complex accounting requirements into practical business solutions.
- A proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and external auditors.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills.
- Ability to influence, collaborate, and build strong working relationships globally.
- A desire to continuously improve processes and challenge existing ways of working.
- Ambition to develop your career within a high-growth international organisation.
Skills
- IFRS
- Statutory financial reporting
- Business combinations
- Impairment
- Share-based payments
- Financial instruments
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
Location
- Edinburgh
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
- Career progression
- Private health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer leave
- Fully funded learning and professional development opportunities
About the Company
- FNZ is a global wealth management platform provider, partnering with many of the world's leading financial institutions to help make wealth management more accessible through innovative technology and investment solutions.
- With thousands of employees across more than 30 countries, FNZ combines technology, expertise, and innovation to help transform the future of wealth management worldwide.
- FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms.
- We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
- We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
- Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.