Accountant - Financial reconciliations change projects

Accountant Opportunity - Swindon based

Salary: Up to £47,000

Our client is one of the UK's leading financial services organisations, currently recruiting for an Accountant to join their Financial Reconiliations team based in Swindon.

Financial reconciliations are key to providing the organisation with both financial assurance and with identifying and resolving member focussed incidents every single day. As well as validating the accounting decisions made each day by our systems.

The reconciliations team are recipient of multiple change projects which are run across the busniness, and need to ensure that each change is managed effectively and does not impact the integrity of the reconciliations work and the accounting processes.

This accountant role will lead the important work of assessing the impacts of projects and change to ensure success for the Society and its strategic change agenda. Your role will involve liaising with projects to assess the potential impact on the Financial Reconciliations team, and then co-ordinate a successful integration of the new system or process into the team.

You will be responsible for documenting requirements, designing reconciliations, carrying out testing and helping with the smooth transition of work to the reconciliations team as projects deliver and go live.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week at the office in Swindon.

To be successful in this role, you'll:

• An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) - Or very close to qualifying.
• Strong financial reconciliations experience.
• Experience in process improvement and efficiency
• Experience working with, or on, large strategic projects
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• The ability to make decisions independently, keeping relevant parties informed

In return you will get access to a fantastic benefits package including:

• A personal pension where if put in 7% of your salary, the organisation will add a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

Please apply online today to be considered.

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