Financial Reporting and Compliance Accountant - FTC

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially‑spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly‑regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work.

With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long‑lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

The main purpose of this role is to support the ‘Financial Accounting & Compliance Manager’, in maintaining the robust financial integrity and timely IFRS‑compliant external reporting of the Group’s legal entities.

You will be a self‑motivated, driven, and trusted professional who’s keen to improve processes. You’ll also:

• Assist in the preparation of: 1. Monthly board packs (income statement and balance sheet for several key legal entities) 2. Annual UK legal entity statutory reporting
  3. Annual group consolidated financial statements
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain intercompany matrix and oversee timely corrections.
• Own key monthly reporting tasks as required, such as preparing journals within remit (e.g. intercompany revenue accruals required for standalone entity P&L reporting).
• Maintain detailed process notes and control descriptions.
• Assist in the implementation of key financial and reporting processes.
• Maintain and publish the Group’s Chart of Accounts.
• Ensure timely and accurate booking, invoicing and settlement of intercompany service fees and recharges, in line with the terms of the relevant intercompany

• Qualified or part qualified accountant.
• Previous experience producing statutory and/or management accounts.
• The ability to liaise with all levels of the firm.
• Workday experience is preferable but not essential.
• Proficient in Outlook and Excel (powerful lookups, dynamic arrays, complex logic, etc.).
• Ability to manage and plan your own workload with multiple deadlines to be achieved.
• Strong attention to detail when producing reports and using large data sets.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people‑centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can…