Financial Accountant - Bank in Milton Keynes

Overview

SALARY: From £41,567 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office; however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Part time FTC, 32 hours per week, ending 31/12/27

CLOSING DATE: 04/03/26. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

In this role you will play a key role in supporting the financial control and regulatory framework of the organisation. You will be responsible for producing accurate and comprehensive supporting schedules for the monthly management accounts and regulatory submissions for Volkswagen Bank GmbH UK Branch.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Prepare monthly management accounts, disclosure information, and variance analysis for VW Bank UK Branch in accordance with IFRS and German GAAP, up to management review.
• Analyse, reconcile, and investigate balance sheet and P&L positions to ensure accuracy and completeness, proposing correcting entries where required.
• Produce regulatory reports for VW Bank UK Branch for submission to HQ, including liquidity, solvency and deposit guarantee reporting.
• Review and update all regulatory submissions to reflect changes required by the regulator, HQ, or the Bank team.
• Prepare regulatory and statutory submissions for VWFS UK Ltd. to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
• Ensure all intercompany balances are accurately accounted for, reconciled, and reported each month, including preparation of the monthly Intercompany Pack for management review.
• Complete VAT schedules accurately for review by the Tax Team, resolve queries collaboratively, implement VAT changes (including updates to the online tax tool), and support timely VAT return submissions.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
• Experience preparing accounts under both IFRS and German GAAP.
• Strong ability to work with large and diverse data sets, consolidating information into accurate final submissions.
• Proven experience managing relationships with multiple stakeholders across the business.
• Solid technical accounting knowledge, including exposure to regulatory reporting and taxation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, with strong Excel skills.
• Working knowledge of SAP FI is preferred.

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance. OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge, along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straightforward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you! VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.