Financial Accountant

LHV Bank

LHV Bank Limited is a UK-licensed bank operating across three core business segments: Retail Banking, SME Lending, and Banking Services (BaaS). The bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of LHV Group, a listed financial services provider headquartered in Estonia. LHV Bank operates under a full UK banking licence granted in May 2023. The Bank supports over 200 fintech clients with embedded financial infrastructure, provides retail savings products via digital channels, and offers SME credit solutions across the UK. In line with its regulatory responsibilities and growth ambitions, LHV Bank is committed to maintaining a robust and proportionate financial crime control environment. Expanding our services, LHV Bank now provides personal banking solutions. Our offerings include current accounts with competitive interest rates, fixed-rate bonds for long-term savings, and debit cards.  Customers can conveniently access these services through the LHV App, enabling secure account opening and management. Role Overview The Senior Financial Accountant is a key member of the UK Finance team with a remit spanning finance operations, financial control and financial reporting. The ideal candidate brings strong accounting expertise, high levels of data and IT literacy, and a sharp focus on quality and control. They will be comfortable operating at pace within a highly regulated environment, with the capability and drive to continuously improve processes as the business scales. Key Responsibilities Financial Controllership & Reporting: * Act as the Financial Controller’s key partner across financial controllership, supporting finance operations, technical accounting, reporting and tax, and helping drive standards, discipline and continuous improvement. * Take responsibility for executing the majority of month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring outputs are accurate, complete and delivered on time in line with IFRS and regulatory requirements. * Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and chart of accounts, with direct responsibility for balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and key control accounts. * Support the preparation of statutory financial statements and disclosures. * Execute and maintain financial reporting models required for a scaling bank (including IFRS 2, IFRS 9 and IFRS 16), adhering to model risk management requirements, with a strong willingness to deepen technical understanding over time. * Support the external audit process by coordinating and delivering high-quality documentation and analysis, ensuring audit requests are addressed accurately and efficiently. * Assist with internal audit activities, ensuring timely, well-evidenced responses to findings and recommendations. Finance Operations & Tax: * Execute a broad range of day-to-day finance operations activities, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and cash settlements, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and strong control discipline. * Partner with external advisors on tax compliance and reporting, including corporation tax, VAT partial exemption, R&D tax credits and PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA). * Ensure all financial operations operate within the Bank’s governance, risk and control framework, maintaining strong oversight of financial data quality and reconciliations. Controls, Process Optimisation & Governance: * Design, implement and continuously enhance internal controls to strengthen financial governance and mitigate risk in a high-growth environment. * Proactively identify and deliver process improvements and automation opportunities to enhance efficiency, scalability and reporting accuracy. * Maintain and evolve financial policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with internal governance standards and regulatory expectations. * Collaborate closely with Treasury, Risk, Operations, Product and Technology teams to support cost control, asset capitalisation and other finance-related processes. * Act as a key business partner to Group Finance and UK stakeholders, ensuring alignment, transparency and high-quality financial information flows. Leadership & Culture: * Coach and support junior members of the finance team, reinforcing high standards of accuracy, ownership and professionalism. * Foster a culture of accountability, integrity and continuous improvement across all financial control processes. * Embrace and promote the effective use of modern tools, including AI solutions such as ChatGPT and Copilot, demonstrating strong prompt literacy and comfort leveraging technology to improve efficiency, insight and reporting quality.   Requirements: Education & Qualifications: * Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ICAS, CPA or CIMA), or in the final stages of qualification. * 2–5 years’ post-qualification experience (or equivalent practical experience) within banking, financial services or another regulated environment. Technical & Professional Skills: * Strong core accounting knowledge with practical experience applying IFRS in a financial reporting environment. * Hands-on experience delivering month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting in a controlled environment. * Exposure to statutory accounts preparation and supporting external audits. * Understanding of UK tax fundamentals (corporation tax, VAT), with experience working alongside external advisors. * Experience working with advanced accountings ledgers (Microsoft Dynamics / Business Central / Navision preferred). * Strong Excel capability and high data literacy, with the ability to interrogate large data sets and improve reporting accuracy and efficiency. * Comfortable leveraging modern tools, including AI solutions such as ChatGPT or similar platforms, with solid prompt-writing skills and a practical mindset toward automation and process optimisation. Exposure to SQL/Python and Atlassian tools would be advantageous. * Strong attention to detail and a clear commitment to quality and control. * Well organised, able to prioritise effectively and deliver to tight deadlines in a fast-paced, regulated environment. * Confident communicator, able to work effectively with Group Finance and cross-functional stakeholders. * Fluent in spoken and written English.   Some of our benefits (only applicable to UK based roles not Internship programmes)  * Competitive salary &lots of opportunities to learn, grow and progress professionally. * Open and inclusive culture.   * Hybrid working. * Fantastic offices and great working environment. * Vitality Health Plan (includes private health insurance, travel insurance, gym discounts)  * Health cash Plan (Medicash health plan Level 3) * 6% employer pension contribution. * Life assurance – 4 x salary. * Income protection insurance – 75%   * 28 days holiday plus 3 additional days, & further days for various key life events as well as the opportunity to sell up to 5 days per calendar year. * Swap public/bank holidays each year for alternative days that align with your personal, cultural, or religious observances.  * Enhanced family friendly and family forming policies. * Access to a wide range of retail discounts.  * Team Socials.

Policy Expert

Policy Expert – Financial Accountant  🚀Are you ready to transform the insurance industry? Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience. Having achieved rapid growth since being founded in 2011, we’ve won over 1.5 million customers in Home, Motor and Pet insurance and have been ranked the UK’s No.1-rated home insurer by Review Centre since 2013. 🏆 What you’ll be doing: * Aid the Record to Report (R2R) Finance Manager in the delivery of month-end, including preparing and reviewing journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations. * Prepare monthly group consolidations, including balance sheet and cash flow reporting. * Prepare VAT returns and ONS returns. * Provide hands-on support to the operational finance team to solve queries * Support payments and cash management processes * Provide input into the delivery of annual report and accounts for all Group companies, including the Group’s FCA-regulated insurance intermediary subsidiary. * Work closely with the external auditors, providing data, information, and explanations to them as required. * Continually review and improve the control and process environment. * Prepare and maintain process documents covering all work undertaken. Who are you:  * Likely to be at least 3 years post-qualified ACA/ACCA or equivalent, exceptional candidates with less PQ experience would also be considered. * Knowledge and experience of corporation tax are desirable * A curious and quick learner. Proactive with a positive mindset. * Self-motivated and outgoing * Able to articulate complex accounting theory into practical ‘down-to-earth’ terms when working with stakeholders. * Strong Excel skills and knowledge of Sage Intacct and SAP Concur are advantageous Benefits: 📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode. 💸 We match your pension contributions up to 7% 🏥 Private medical & Dental cover 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it) 😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity  🚉 Travel season ticket loan 🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge 🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme 🚪 Prayer room in the office What We Stand for and Next Steps  “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”  At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support. We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. Useful links: Glassdoor | Trust Pilot

Prolific

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT     Prolific Prolific is not just another player in the AI space—we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.   The role Prolific is looking for an ambitious and proactive newly qualified accountant to join our dynamic and cohesive Finance team. This diverse role provides an excellent opportunity to progress your career and enhance your technical skills while contributing to key deliverables such as month-end close, statutory reporting and managing stakeholder relations.  The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, ensuring accurate financial reporting and delivering work to a consistently high standard within agreed deadlines. You will be a team player who is comfortable collaborating with colleagues while being confident to work independently, taking pride in and ownership of tasks.   What you’ll be doing in the role * Take ownership of month-end tasks, including journals and reconciliations * Balance sheet reconciliations and P&L variance analysis with commentaries * Quarterly VAT returns * Responsibility for managing and responding to finance-related queries from internal and external stakeholders * Processing customer refunds, ensuring adherence to AML requirements * Creating automations and efficiencies in existing processes to reduce time spent on month-end * Updating policies to optimise for efficiency whilst maintaining high levels of control * Identifying opportunities for improvements in company-wide reporting, and collaborating with colleagues to drive forward improvements * Seek to reduce finance-related queries from customers and internal teams by identifying common queries/problems, and implementing solutions to them * Ensure costs are allocated to appropriate verticals and budget holders * Tracking and reconciling user balance cashflow movements * Support preparation of financial reports and invoices for key customers, monitoring spend against contracts * Assist FP&A in keeping Prolific’s re-forecast up to date and accurate * Ad-hoc projects       What you’ll bring to the role  * Recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA preferred) * Proven experience performing month-end tasks and delivering on time * Experience working with large data sets with a keen eye for accuracy and identifying discrepancies * Proactive approach to problem-solving with confidence in suggesting improvements * Comfortable in a fast-paced work environment or previous experience in a startup/scale-up * A fast learner who is quick to pick up new systems and processes whilst being comfortable adapting to change * Confident communicator who can engage with various stakeholders, including those from non-finance backgrounds Even better if you have * Experience working with Xero and Google products (e.g., Google Sheets) * A genuine interest in new and emerging technologies, including AI, and how they can be leveraged to improve financial processes and efficiency * Experience implementing new finance software * Experience supporting the audit process    Why Prolific is a great place to work We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems. We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation—one that reflects the breadth and the best of humanity. Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.   Links to more information on Prolific Benefits  External Handbook  Website  Youtube    Privacy Statement By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organization planning. Prolific's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information.