Senior Financial Control Analyst

Senior Financial Control Analyst

📍London/Cardiff | 💰£56,000 - £75,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits

Our Financial Control Team

Monzo is growing fast - new products, new markets and new locations. Our team sits within Monzo’s Finance collective and our job is getting the numbers right. We’re currently a team of seven qualified accountants, split between our Cardiff and London offices, and we ensure the ledger’s correct at every month-end.

You’ll play a key role by…

We’re looking for a proactive, enthusiastic and commercially-minded accountant to work on our financial accounting, and help us build a world-class finance function. This role would be well suited to a qualified accountant with 2+ years of post-qualification experience.

You’ll work on scaling Monzo in a controlled way, while helping us optimise our financial control processes with the help of technology. You’ll report to our Financial Control Manager.

Your day-to-day

• Manage a tight process with the rest of our internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
• Understand the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
• Understand our accounting systems and make sure we are taking advantage of all features we can to minimise manual elements of reporting.
• Embrace the opportunity to improve and transform processes, driving incremental improvements through to adoption of AI.
• Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose solutions that make our processes efficient and scalable.
• Support our year end process working with external auditors and our Financial Reporting squad.
• Help review new products, assessing the accounting and implementing them in our banking platform and accounting system.
• Work with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and make proposals on accounting policy matters for new products launched.
• Help maintain the integrity of our chart of accounts and financial static data.
• Resolve miscellaneous inquiries and support the overall finance team wherever needed.

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You’re a qualified accountant with a few years’ post-qualification experience, ideally in financial reporting/controlling teams and working in a retail banking environment
• You have a strong understanding of technical accounting standards
• You have a great eye for detail
• You’re fascinated by the banking and regulatory landscape, and have a good understanding of key financial controls
• You’re a self-starter and enjoy tackling what needs doing
• You’re comfortable translating complex information into simple words
• You’re interested in using data (SQL skills would be a bonus)
• You embrace change and are motivated to improve and innovate process
• You thrive in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment

What’s in it for you

• £56,000 - £75,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
• This role can be based in our London or Cardiff office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
• We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.
• Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.