Zopa | Senior Technical Accountant

Responsibilities

• You’ll show great initiative to listen, analyse, research, investigate and provide solutions to problems relating to financial accounting and reporting.
• This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.
• As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.
• You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.
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• Manage stakeholders effectively and work well with other Zopa teams, including Product, Legal, Treasury and Risk, building strong, influential relationships and giving clear, practical technical accounting advice.
• Support the development, implementation and upkeep of accounting policies and the accounting manual and give practical guidance on how policies should be applied across the business.
• Help put new accounting treatments into practice: make sure finance systems and processes are set up to support new activities, embed them into business-as-usual (BAU) processes and hand them over to the BAU teams.
• Support the technical accounting for balance sheet activity, including SPPI testing and hedge accounting assessments and documentation under IAS 39 and IFRS 9.
• Support the timely and accurate delivery of month-end reporting where needed.
• Work directly with the external auditors on accounting policy and technical accounting matters, answering queries and providing evidence and papers.
• Help shape and deliver our work to automate the production of the annual report, an area where this role will be fundamental.
• Keep up to date with developments in financial and corporate reporting.

Requirements

• Experience of working in the financial services sector (ideally banking or consumer finance), or trained at a top six accountancy firm with financial services experience in a technical accounting role.
• Solid working knowledge of IFRS and how it applies to financial services products and transactions.
• Comfortable managing several pieces of work at once in a fast-moving environment, and building trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of operational accounting.

Zopa

Zopa is an employer hiring in India (sector: Fintech). In its own words: "Open a Zopa bank account with cashback and interest."

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

• Industry: Fintech