Assistant Financial Accountant - Part Qualified

Shawbrook Bank is currently looking to recruit an Assistant Financial Accountant into its established Financial Accounting Function based in Brentwood. This is an exciting opportunity for a part qualified accountant to join a high performing central function. This role offers excellent exposure to the business and the opportunity for the successful candidate to get involved in a wide variety of accounting activities. As an Assistant Financial Accountant you will be responsible for providing accounting support to the wider business.

Key responsibilities will include the following:

• Recording daily movements of the lending portfolio and the deposits business area.
• Carrying out month end tasks including accruals, deferred income and control account reconciliations. Accounting for commissions, clawbacks and interest income.
• Completing account reconciliations and making sure aged items are dealt with and provide reporting when required.
• Knowledge of controls and risk awareness.
• Completing Bank Reconciliations.
• Ad-hoc duties as and when to support the finance team.
• The role will develop to include project work and high level analysis.

Suitable candidates will have the following experience and qualifications:

• Currently ACCA part qualified.
• Previous experience of working within the financial services industry would be useful but not essential.
• At least intermediate level of excel including V-lookups & Pivot tables.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge, including exposure to IFRS reporting.
• Proven track record of delivering to tight deadlines and work under pressure.
• Able to demonstrate an analytical and solutions focussed approach to work.

Shawbrook is a specialist UK lending and savings bank found in 2011 to serve the needs of SMEs and individuals in the UK with a range of lending and saving products.

Our speciality is in providing funding to established small businesses who are seeking to grow; by listening and working with these customers, we have developed a variety of lending solutions, ideally suited to businesses going through change. We also provide a range of savings products to our individual, business and charity customer base, all of which have access to our UK based customer services team who are on hand to support our customers.