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About the Role
Monzo is growing rapidly, launching new products, expanding into new markets, and opening new locations. We are seeking a proactive, enthusiastic, and commercially-minded accountant to join our Financial Control Team. This role is crucial for supporting our business expansion and ensuring the accuracy of our financial processes, helping to build a world-class finance function.
Responsibilities
- Manage a tight process with the internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
- Understand the business and products to write insightful management commentary.
- Understand accounting systems and ensure all features are leveraged to minimize manual reporting.
- Improve and transform processes, driving incremental improvements through to AI adoption.
- Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose efficient and scalable process solutions.
- 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 accounting standard changes and propose accounting policy matters for new products.
- 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 2+ years of post-qualification experience.
- Ideally, experience in financial reporting/controlling teams within a retail banking environment.
- Strong understanding of technical accounting standards.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Fascination with the banking and regulatory landscape, with a good understanding of key financial controls.
- Self-starter capable of tackling various tasks, from bank transfers to investor reports.
- Ability to translate complex information into simple terms for diverse audiences.
- Interest in using data; SQL skills are a bonus.
- Enthusiasm for embracing change and improving/innovating processes.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and evolving environment.
Skills
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Control
- Month-end close
- Group consolidation
- Management commentary
- Accounting systems
- Process improvement
- AI adoption
- SQL
- Auditing
- Accounting standards
- Accounting policy
- Chart of accounts maintenance
- Forecasting
- Valuations
- Bank transfers
- Transfer pricing
- Tax policy research
Location
- London
- Cardiff
- Distributed working within the UK
Work Type
- Flexible working hours
- Distributed working
Experience Level
- Senior
- 2+ years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified accountant
Salary/Compensations
- £56,000 - £75,000
- Incentive Awards tied to performance
Benefits
- Incentive Awards
- £1,000 learning budget each year
- Macbooks
- Support for work-from-home setup
About the Company
- Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking complexities.
- Our product offering has grown significantly over 10 years, including personal and business accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a kids account, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions.
- We are known for our hot coral cards, get-paid-early feature, financial education on social media, and award-winning customer service.
- We focus on solving problems and changing lives through our offerings.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion are a priority at Monzo, with support for all people to grow.
- We foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- 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.
- We encourage applicants to use their preferred name for applications.