Financial Accountant, Zopa
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SQL
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Junior and Mid level
London
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Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
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Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
FintechB2CLendingFinancial Services
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
SQL
Tableau
Anaplan
Junior and Mid level
London
More information about location
501-1000 employees
FintechB2CLendingFinancial Services
Company mission
To create simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer's needs at heart.
Role
Who you are
- To be successful in this role you’ll have a good understanding of IFRS accounting standards, financial month-end close process, and UK taxes
- This role would suit best someone from industry with experience of month-end close processes, or someone from accountancy practice with Banking experience
- You're a part-qualified accountant with experience in the financial month-end close process and have an analytic & practical mindset enabling you to build and operate complex accounting models and EUCs
- Have strong numeric/analytical and spreadsheet skills
- A team player and problem solver. You’ll show great initiative to listen, analyse, research, investigate and provide solutions to problems relating to financial accounting and reporting
- You’ve got the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines whilst working accurately with attention to detail
- Finally, you’ll be energetic, motivated, and have a passion for excellence and innovation in pursuit of success!
Desirable
- Experience in Infor Sun Systems, SQL, Anaplan and/or Tableau is advantageous
- Experience in staff capitalisations and/or EIR methodology
What the job involves
- Zopa Bank is one of the fastest growing neobanks in the UK with exciting plans for an IPO in the near future. In response to this growth, we are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our Financial Control team
- Our Finance team is growing at pace so you’ll have a clear ability to build effective and influential relationships within Finance and other Zopa teams
- Our team are self-starting problem solvers, agile and thrive on bringing past experiences to a diverse range of challenges. You'll be part of an impressive Zopa team, who are super collaborative and happy to roll their sleeves up to achieve our team goals!
- Responsible for areas of the month-end close process, ensuring that all your month-end activities are completed timely and accurately
- Coach junior team members in accounting and month-end close processes
- Ensure process excellence across all business-as-usual processes, identifying and implementing areas of improvement
- Prepare manual journal entries, soon developing into a reviewer role
- Responsible for the staff capitalisations process & maintain the intangible assets register
- Use, update, and implement new financial models to determine required month-end adjustments (e.g. EIR, SBP)
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations
- Own the preparation of tax compliance schedules (e.g. VAT and Corporate tax returns)
- Execute monthly, quarterly and annual controls over financial & tax reporting timely and accurately
- Support initiatives aimed at enhancing the internal control environment ahead of the IPO
- Maintain operational procedures and policies
- Prepare notes in the Financial Statements alongside managing areas of the external audit
- Respond to queries from stakeholders across Finance and other business areas in Zopa
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zopa has been a pioneering force in the world of finance since 2005, lending out billions in personal loans since its inception, before the launch of its bank in 2020. Its depth of lending experience makes it a digital bank with a difference - offering all the benefits customers have come to expect from a challenger bank, but backed up by 16 years of know how.
Zopa has carved out a strong position for itself in UK fintech, offering more than just loans with products like savings accounts and credit cards. And its clear focus on lending and saving has paid off, with recent investment fueling both product growth and its entry into business lending. The bank also made its first acquisition, snapping up 'buy now, pay later' platform DivideBuy, as part of its expansion strategy.
On top of that, Zopa is now boasting two consecutive years of profit doubling, a rare feat in digital banking. Backed by fresh funding, it's now pushing into new territory with plans to launch a current account and integrate generative AI into customer services.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jamal Ud-Din, Product Manager
Our mission
Building the world's best credit card!Insights
Top investors
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"My colleagues here at Zopa have a wealth of knowledge which they share constantly and are always willing to assist or give a second opinion on..."
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Dec 2024
$94.6m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$99m
LATE VC
Total funding: $961.5m
Company benefits
- 2-3 days a week in the office. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance.
- 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 (*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice)
- On top of regular bank holidays, you’ll get 25 days holiday as standard, rising up to 30 days as your tenure grows. For any teams that operate on a bank holiday, you may be offered an alternative day off.
- As a Zopian, you can opt into our private medical insurance through Vitality Health. This’ll give you access to private medical care, discounted gym memberships, and other rewards such as savings at various retailers for maintaining an active lifestyle. You also get free Headspace access to help with the all-important mindfulness we need
- 16-weeks full pay for all new parents. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay to employees wishing to start a family. New parents, including those adopting, are eligible to take up to 16-weeks leave at full pay.
Company values
- Customer Champion: Whatever the role, the customer is front and centre of our thinking. We care passionately about doing the best for them.
- Fearless Choices: Our environment is fast-paced, agile and open. You'll solve interesting and challenging problems and be trusted and empowered to bring your ideas to life.
- In It Together: You'll join an ambitious, diverse and all round approachable team with a mix of ideas and talents who inspire each other to be better every day.
- Walk The Talk: You'll be honest, stick to your promises and face the tough moments head on.
- Win smarter: You'll be always on the lookout for a better way of doing things, going beyond "good enough" and welcoming different points of view.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Jaidev
(CEO)Promoted from within Zopa, previously COO. 12 years of experience at Capital One, including Chief Marketing Officer for UK.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zopa
- We're always looking for passionate and talented people who can help us be the best place for money. We welcome everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or religion.
- We run a successful mentoring program, with 28 mentors across the business. We believe this launching pad helps our internal talent stretch beyond their comfort zone, explore new avenues and grow into future leaders.
- We’re focused on ensuring a fair approach to attracting talent, from how we advertise roles to our application and interview process. For all our hiring requirements we mandate 50/50 shortlists and diverse interview panels. We also run all our adverts through a recognised gender de-coder to ensure we attract and hire a diverse range of people. More recently we’ve been experimenting with new job boards and partnerships like Otta Jobs and BYP Network (Black Youth Partnership Network) to increase diversity in our candidate sourcing.
- We’ve secured trail-blazing partnerships with organisations like Code First Girls, YSYS and BYP Network. We’ve already had huge success with our Code First Girls cohort who joined our tech community as Software Engineers and Database Administrators in January.
- We encourage Zopians to create memorable career journeys, and internal mobility plays a huge part in this. All our live job vacancies are posted on our internal jobs board. Over the last 12 months, we’ve trained and supported many Zopians to make internal career moves and become compliance officers, developers, lawyers and HR specialists. In fact, 20% of our open roles in Q3 2021 were filled by internal candidates. This not only makes Zopa a great place to work, but also allows us to break down some of the systemic pipeline issues that we see in STEM professions.
- Our Diversity & Inclusion focus groups and “All in” club celebrate diversity through various company events, such as quiz nights and “Bring your kids to work” day – our favourite is international food night!
- Everyone at Zopa has different working styles, and we want to support them in any way possible. That’s why we’re committed to flexible working whether that’s from home, in the office or a combination of both. What’s more, our model includes the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!
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