Senior Group Reporting Accountant - Quilter in Southampton

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK's best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of 31 December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial advice network and national, Quilter's investment platform and multi-asset solutions and Quilter Invest, the digital savings and investment app. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management and financial planning business, Quilter Cheviot.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level - 4
Department - Finance
Location - Southampton
Contract - Permanent

As a Senior Group Reporting Accountant, you will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial and regulatory reporting across Quilter Group and its subsidiary entities. Working within the Financial and Regulatory Reporting team in Group Finance, you will support the preparation of statutory financial statements and regulatory returns, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements. Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, you will help maintain the integrity and quality of Quilter's external reporting framework while contributing to ongoing improvements in reporting processes and controls.

Key responsibilities

• Preparing statutory financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK GAAP).
• Preparing regulatory returns.
• Completing reporting, disclosure, consolidation and control processes for month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting cycles for both financial and regulatory reporting to a high quality and within deadlines.
• Working as part of a team to safeguard the quality of Quilter's financial and regulatory reporting by ensuring appropriate reporting systems, processes, procedures and controls are in place.
• Working with Technology to help maintain the general ledger account hierarchies within Workday and business processes relating to financial and regulatory reporting.
• Providing information and explanations to the Group's external auditors.

About You

• You will have Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with strong post qualification experience in financial and regulatory reporting.
• Good knowledge and understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Practical experience of financial reporting processes and controls.
• Excellent organisation and planning skills.
• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate, high quality reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to change in a complex and changing environment.
• Experience of process improvement and reporting simplification activity.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Desirable

• Experience of reporting in the UK financial services industry.
• Experience of consolidated reporting.
• Experience of regulatory reporting under the Investment Firms Prudential Regime.
• Experience of regulatory reporting under Solvency II.
• Experience of working with large, complex data sets.
• Experience of the financial and regulatory reporting software being used by Quilter (including CDM and Workday).

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we're one step ahead of our clients' needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential.