Financial Accountant
London
Buyagift – Finance /
Permanent /
Hybrid
About us:
Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK’s leading gift experience provider. Our core focus is to deliver happiness to our customers, suppliers, team and retail partners, we aim to do this by providing industry leading products. The iconic Red Letter Days brand was added to our portfolio in November 2017, and we are extremely proud to be part of the Moonpig Group since July 2022.Our people are a fundamental driver of our success. We place great importance on nurturing exceptional people as we firmly believe that our competitive advantage stems from the capabilities and potential of our workforce. Our People team helps to drive those efforts across the business.
Function: Financial Control
Reporting to: Senior Financial Accountant
Location: London, Hybrid
What You’ll Be Doing
We’re seeking a Financial Accountant (part qualified) to play an important role within our Financial Control team, reporting into the Senior Financial Accountant and working closely with the wider finance team in London, as well as the rest of the business.
The role has month-end responsibilities, suiting someone with a mix of management and financial accounting experience. This role will also help perform analysis for senior stakeholders to better understand our performance.
The ideal candidate will be building strong analytical and communication skills, have high attention to detail and an ability to manage competing priorities, as well as having a good working knowledge of Excel. We’re seeking someone that has the energy and enthusiasm to help us find and solve issues and improve our processes, files and systems, with us supporting you along this journey all the way.
Moonpig Group has a study support scheme available for accountancy qualifications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting our technology business through intangible stock accounting, reporting and analysis
- Producing monthly management accounts including commentary on actuals vs budget
- Working with the business to improve our processes and workstreams
- Performing balance sheet reconciliations and owning our financial controls
- Assisting with and audit preparation and completion
- Support to various improvement projects, such as streamlining accounting processes, and the roll out of new systems and tools
About You:
- Part qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent
- Proactive and enthusiastic approach to your work
- An analytical and problem-solving mind-set to understand, challenge and ask the relevant questions
- Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise and high attention to detail
- Excellent Excel skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, comfortable working with senior management & non-finance colleagues
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced industry
We live by our company core purpose of Delivering Happiness – Amazing People. We only hire amazing people like you, if this is you and if this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you.
Our mission
For everyone in the UK to create unique memories that last a lifetime
Our vision
To be the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
We’re committed to creating an inclusive and caring culture with amazing people who feel a real sense of belonging. We welcome and celebrate all diverse backgrounds - from working parents who need flexibility with their hours, individuals who are neurodiverse and prefer to work a certain way to those from underrepresented communities. We’re proud to have an employee-led group pushing the agenda on all things inclusive. And we will continue to strive for diversity and that sense of belonging so that each and every one of our team have a safe and comfortable environment in which they can be themselves and thrive at work.
