Ameriprise UK | Financial Reporting Accountant - Edinburgh

Responsibilities

• You will be primarily responsible for producing deliverables and ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Prepare annual statutory financial statements for a defined subset of Group entities.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, UK GAAP, and applicable overseas GAAP.
• Manage the end-to-end reporting process, including documentation, audit support, and timely submission.
• Liaise directly with external auditors to provide required information and respond to queries.
• Prepare UK and overseas regulatory and statistical submissions for assigned Group entities.
• Support overseas regulatory reporting processes by acting as a knowledgeable backup for EMEA and APAC entities.
• Perform analytical reviews to explain movements and ensure accuracy.
• Prepare quarterly financial board packs for assigned entities, including commentary and analysis.
• Collaborate with the Company Secretarial team to ensure timely delivery and coverage of key controllership topics.
• Draft board papers summarizing key points from statutory accounts for board approval.
• Identify and propose process enhancements or risk mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with other Controllership team members and business units on relevant processes.
• Participate in business-as-usual activities and manage personal workload to meet deadlines.
• Contribute to Controllership-related projects, ensuring deliverables align with team objectives.
• Build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, external auditors and overseas finance teams.
• Working at Columbia Threadneedle Investments you'll find growth and career opportunities across all of our businesses.
• Help maintain and improve key business processes, ensuring efficiency and control.
• Sets high personal goals and strives for continual improvement;

Requirements

• Experience preparing financial statements and regulatory submissions.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude.
• Experience with financial reporting or accounting systems, such as Workday or ONESOURCE.
• Familiarity with productivity, automation or analytics tools such as Copilot, Power Automate, Python, Alteryx, and Power BI is advantageous, though not essential.
• Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results.
• Good Excel/Word reporting skills.

Ameriprise UK

Ameriprise UK is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Get financial planning advice and retirement investment advice from Ameriprise financial advisors at ameriprise.com."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London and Edinburgh.