Specialist, Financial Accounting

Permanent Full Time role in Finance.
Located in Leeds - Hybrid.

**Permanent Full Time**

**Finance**

**Leeds - Hybrid**

**502582**

**Specialist, Financial Accounting**:
**Specialist, Financial Accounting**
- Working at our office in Leeds, and virtually via Microsoft Teams

**Your new role at NewDay**
- As a Specialist, Financial Accounting and take your career to the next level in a fast-paced, innovative financial services environment. You’ll gain hands-on experience in IFRS reporting, month-end processes, and balance sheet management, while working closely with cross-functional teams to drive performance insights. This role offers the chance to work on strategic projects, improve financial controls, and make a real impact in a company that champions growth, development, and work-life balance. Ready to shape the future of financial reporting?

**You’ll deliver**
Manage the month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring IFRS compliance.
Analyze performance and variances, partnering with Commercial Finance.
Support external audits and address auditor queries.
Drive process improvements while ensuring compliance with the Financial Control Framework.

**What you’ll bring**

**We need knowledge, experience + expertise in**:

ACA qualified with expertise in IFRS and accounting policy implementation for compliance.
Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving and an understanding of business impacts.
Skilled in influencing stakeholders at all levels and managing tight deadlines.
Strong risk and control focus, ensuring high-quality outputs and attention to detail.

**And would love you to know or learn**:
Manage month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and performance analysis.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide insightful financial analysis.
Support audit processes and drive improvements in internal controls.
Contribute to financial reporting for strategic business projects and changes.

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**About NewDay**
- We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
- We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
- Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
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**Our dynamic NewDay culture**
- We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working - with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
- We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
- At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
- NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
- Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money _(and help the planet)._
- Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
- We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.
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