Grow with UTB

This is a hybrid role working 3 days per week (City of London location) and 2days working from home.

Role Purpose: 

Exercise financial oversight, month end management reporting and responding to senior management’s queries, produce the Annual Report & Accounts, team management and project work.

Responsibilities:

• Management two junior members of the Financial Control team
• Month end accounting and production of monthly management accounts
• Responding to queries from senior management including the CEO and CFO
• Preparing quarterly Board reporting
• Assist with production of the Annual Report & Accounts
• Responsible for the management and timely completion of balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting review and production of accounting policies
• Ownership of month end close journals including the Effective Interest Rate (EIR) income postings
• Exercise financial oversight and review key financial controls
• Liaise with divisional Business Analysts regarding business updates, controls and management reporting
• Management of Bank Reconciliations
• Key contact for auditors during the annual audit
• Ongoing improvements in efficiency and automation
• Involvement in ad-hoc projects including system reviews, implementations and upgrades
• Provide support to the Head of Financial Control
• Provide support to the FP&A team for budgeting and forecasting

Skills and Experience sought: 

• Qualified accountant with experience working in the Financial Services Industry preferred
• Good knowledge of UK financial reporting standards (FRS102)
• Strong Excel and reporting skills
• Highly organised and methodical with an ability to see tasks through to completion.
• Ability to prioritise a number of different tasks at once and manage the workload of others
• Attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrable alignment with UTB’s core values of ‘Teamwork, Service, Integrity, Responsibility and Tenacity’
• Good team player, willingness to help their team to achieve its goals

UTB is a dynamic and expanding specialist bank that provides solutions to our customers and brokers, which help them achieve their ambitions. Recognised as being one of the most dependable and well-respected Specialist Banks in the UK, we were delighted to see our balance sheet exceed the £2bn mark in 2022.

Exceptional customer service and the ability to provide rewarding deposits accounts and flexible lending solutions have helped us to develop productive and enduring relationships with our customers. We understand that their success is our success and that the quality of our people and teams, is key to delivering special outcomes for them.

We also understand that the performance of our people is directly linked to the culture in which they work. There is a strong sense of community at UTB and as well as promoting a clear set of internal values, and providing a wealth of facilities for training, personal development, and team building, we run a busy and varied calendar of engagement and social activity. Typical recent examples include: Pizza Lunch Days and Coffee Catch-ups; London Marathon and Sahara Challenge Sponsorships; Success Sharing and Value Awards; and Awesome Autumn social events ranging from Theatre Trips, Cocktail Mixology, and Cookery Classes, to Go-karting, Mini Golf and Clay pigeon shooting.

• competitive salary and bonus package.
• matched pension contributions up to 7%
• 26 days annual leave plus two wellbeing days and opportunity to purchase additional holiday
• flexible and hybrid working
• private medical insurance via Vitality
• life, income protection and critical illness insurance
• enhanced family leave pay
• extensive learning and personal development opportunities
• electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
• season ticket loan
• wellbeing support – discounted gym membership, employee assistance programme, 24/7 private GP access for staff and their immediate family (online), 1:1 key life stage coaching

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