Senior Financial Reporting Analyst (6 Month FTC)
Advert Closes: Monday 1st September
Are you a qualified accountant with a sharp eye for detail and a passion for driving change? Join us as a Senior Financial Reporting Analyst and play a pivotal role in maintaining financial integrity and supporting transformation during a key transition period.
This is a unique opportunity to step into a high-impact role covering paternity leave, where your expertise will help shape the future of financial reporting through simplification, automation, and digital enablement.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Prepare statutory accounts, and support audits and tax filings for subsidiaries and joint ventures.
- Deliver high-quality balance sheet reconciliations and insightful financial analysis.
- Support technical accounting decisions and draft clear, concise memos.
- Drive process improvements for reconciliations and ledger clean-ups.
- Collaborate across teams to automate and simplify reporting processes.
- Contribute to cross-functional projects and ad-hoc initiatives, including governmental returns.
What We’re Looking For:
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (or equivalent) with post-qualification experience.
- An excellent grasp of IFRS and technical accounting, with commercial acumen.
- Proven ability to interrogate financial data, resolve anomalies, and produce clear reconciliations.
- Experience in statutory reporting, stakeholder engagement, and process transformation.
- A self-starter with an analytical mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.
- Property sector experience and ERP system knowledge are a plus.
Why Join Us?
This role offers more than just continuity, it’s a chance to make a real impact. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking finance team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you're ready to bring fresh ideas and deliver meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you.
Ready to make your mark? Apply now and help shape the future of financial reporting.
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Contract
The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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