Senior Group Reporting Accountant in Edinburgh

The Senior Group Reporting Accountant will be responsible for assisting with Group reporting and consolidation. Ensuring timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, regulatory submissions and Group management accounting information. This role will play a key part in maintaining strong financial controls and driving process improvements.

Key accountabilities include:

• Preparation and delivery of accurate and timely consolidated Group financial statements in accordance with relevant accounting standards (IFRS).
• Production of Management accounting information to share with the Commercial finance teams.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of all Group regulatory returns to FCA and other relevant authorities.
• Ensure consistent implementation of accounting policies, procedures and controls for entities within the Group.
• Ensure compliance with all financial reporting obligations under relevant regulations and governance frameworks.
• Work closely with the regulatory reporting and capital teams to ensure accurate reporting of financial and capital-related disclosures.
• Identify and implement improvements in financial reporting processes, automation, and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence within the finance function.
• Supporting good customer outcomes through maintenance of financial accounting and reporting control.
• Ensuring reliable complete financial information is captured for all components of the Group.
• Meeting internal and external audit standards, remediating shortfalls if and when they arise.
• Achieving KPI’s/Targets including: Achieving required timeliness, completeness and accuracy measures.
• Liaison with internal/external stakeholders.
• Developing recommendations and decision making/escalation with respect to accounting, reporting and financial control risk matters.
• Ensuring timely submission of required Statutory, Fiscal and Regulatory filings.
• Maintaining appropriate level of technical skills for self and team.
• Take responsibility in everything you do to deliver good outcomes for our customers.
• Positively demonstrate the Nucleus Smart, Heart and Courage values and behaviours.
• Ensure compliance with Code of Conduct at all times.

About you

You will have:

• Extensive regulatory reporting experience including MIFID and IPRU-INV.
• Appropriate technical accounting and reporting qualifications gained in a professional services firm or in a series of relevant industry roles.
• Proven leadership skills acquired in roles building and developing specialist teams.
• Ability to communicate complex matters to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of core finance systems and General Ledger systems and structures including reporting tools and applications.
• Ability to lead, motivate, inspire team to contribute fully to the wider leadership of the Finance Function and the wider Nucleus Group.
• Relevant qualifications: Chartered Accountant or Certified Accountant with continuous professional development record demonstrating learning ability and commitment to professional standards.

A little about us

Our purpose at Nucleus is to help make retirement more rewarding, with a vision to build the best retirement-focused platform in the UK. It is this purpose that drives everything we do. Whether you are working in a role that is customer-facing or not, you’ll need to be service-obsessed to work here. It’s a fast paced and exciting environment, and one where we believe you will get the chance to fulfil your potential and do work that really matters, to you and our customers. We believe in you having your own chunk of responsibility and being trusted to make things happen. Nucleus’ culture is something our people believe sets us apart from other places they’ve worked. We think big, know our stuff and move at pace, but always empowering others along the way and breaking new ground to find better ways of doing things. We know that sometimes the right choice is not the easy one, so empowering each other and celebrating others' successes, as well as our own, is part of what makes us Nucleus #WeAreNucleus.

Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus

As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion. For us this is not a box-ticking thing, it’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable.

We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.