Finance Operations Accountant

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £126.3 billion in customer investments (as of August 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 planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi‑asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

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, including our colleagues. 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 - 3
Department - Finance Operations
Location - Southampton
Contract - Permanent

This role supports both the reconciliation and Journals Managers, it is a key part of the safe delivery of the trial balance through supporting the underlying automated feeds and the manual journals required to ensure the ledger is correct.

Key responsibilities include:

• Produce the monthly numbers for the key processes and production of the trial balance through managing automated system feeds and manual journals working with Accounts Payable.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and investigate reconciling items.
• Contribute to papers for Legal Entity board meetings, as and when required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and outputs.
• Assist in implementing any required changes to financial reporting, systems, or procedures smoothly and efficiently.
• Maintaining adherence to the Quilter control framework.
• Support the provision of information for external auditors.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with the other members of the wider finance team to share best practice and standards.
• Ensure all accounting and financial processes are fully documented and remain up to date, reflecting any changes in policy or regulation.

About You

The successful candidate:

• Ability to engage and consult senior colleagues.
• Good communication skills – written and verbal.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to produce high quality, timely deliverables.
• Credibility, professionalism, and strong personal integrity.
• Able to work in a complex and changing environment.
• Embraces change and initiates new and better ways of working to deliver positive customer outcomes.
• Proactive approach to the resolution of problems and obstacles, escalating issues as required.
• Embraces a collaborative working environment to achieve shared objectives.

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 into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.