The Role
Financial Accountant responsible for month-end close, financial and regulatory reporting, statutory accounts, audits, reconciliations, treasury, budgeting, forecasting, and finance operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions. The role supports accounting controls, payment processes, intercompany balances, system improvements, automation, and cross-functional finance projects while investigating variances and resolving issues independently.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking a proactive and technically strong Financial Accountant to join the Corporate Finance team in our Jersey office on a permanent basis. This is a broad, hands-on role covering month-end reporting, statutory accounts, audit, regulatory reporting, treasury and other day-to-day finance activities across the Group. The role will involve taking responsibility for recurring finance processes, working with colleagues across the business and helping improve how those processes are run.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working across different areas of finance, able to investigate issues independently and willing to take ownership of work through to completion.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working across different areas of finance, able to investigate issues independently and willing to take ownership of work through to completion.
Key Responsibilities
1. Monthly Reporting & Analysis
- Take ownership of monthly close activities for assigned entities, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations and reviews of financial results.
- Prepare and support accurate, timely monthly and Group reporting, including management information, recurring finance reports and investigation of significant movements and variances.
- Contribute to the continued improvement of reporting processes, including the use of data visualisation and automation tools.
2. Regulatory & Compliance Reporting
- Prepare and support regulatory submissions across key jurisdictions (e.g., Jersey, UK, Switzerland, Singapore), ensuring compliance and timely delivery.
- Maintain supporting schedules and reconciliations to ensure regulatory submissions are accurate, complete and delivered within required deadlines.
- Work with Finance, Legal and Compliance to understand and implement changes to regulatory reporting requirements.
3. Financial Statements & Audit Management
- Prepare statutory financial statements and supporting schedules for entities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Support Group consolidation and the preparation of year-end reporting adjustments.
- Coordinate audit requests, prepare supporting documentation and liaise directly with external auditors.
- Ensure audit queries and outstanding matters are investigated and resolved on a timely basis.
4. Finance Operations
- Support the effective operation of accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, payroll accounting and cash-management processes.
- Prepare and review bank, cash and other key balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support the preparation, review and control of payments across multiple entities, currencies and banking platforms.
- Maintain accurate intercompany balances and support the resolution of reconciling items.
- Ensure finance processes operate in accordance with established controls, approval requirements and internal policies.
5. Budgeting & Forecasting
- Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, including the preparation of supporting schedules and analysis of actual results against budget and forecast.
- Investigate significant variances and provide clear explanations to relevant stakeholders.
6. Systems, Process Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance processes.
- Use finance systems and reporting tools effectively to improve accuracy, efficiency and control.
Support the implementation and enhancement of finance systems, workflows and reporting solutions. - Document and maintain key finance processes and controls.
7. Project Work & Ad Hoc Tasks
- Contribute to Finance and cross-functional projects, including new entity implementation, banking initiatives, system changes and process improvement.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and accounting support as required.
- Undertake additional responsibilities appropriate to the role as the Finance function continues to evolve.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Core Requirements:
- Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in financial reporting.
- Experience within financial services, asset management, audit or another complex multi-entity environment across jurisdictions and/or currencies.
- Good working knowledge of Excel, with the ability to analyse, reconcile and interpret financial data.
- Solid understanding of balance sheet accounting, accruals, prepayments, intercompany accounting and foreign-currency transactions.
- Experience preparing statutory accounts and supporting external audits.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to investigate issues independently.
- Good systems aptitude and experience using ERP or finance systems.
- A proactive approach, with a willingness to take ownership, investigate issues, follow matters through to resolution and continuously improve existing processes.
- Able to manage a number of deadlines and priorities without losing sight of detail.
Preferred Attributes:
- Exposure to regulatory reporting in jurisdictions such as Jersey, the UK or Singapore.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP and reporting or data visualisation tools.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business.
Educational & Professional Qualifications
- Educated to degree level, or equivalent, or higher; and
- Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or similar)
Benefits
Systematica Investments provides you with excellent benefits from day 1. We provide private medical insurance for you and your immediate family. We offer competitive salaries combined with an attractive bonus and pension plus free drinks and snacks at the office. We also offer paid parental leave with enhanced leave for mothers/primary carers.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
About
Systematica Investments, launched in January 2015 after a decade of experience within BlueCrest Capital Management, is an innovative technology-driven firm focused on a quantitative and systematic approach to investing. The firm was founded by Leda Braga and manages assets across a number of futures, equity and OTC based strategies.The philosophy of the firm is one of innovation, excellence in research and a commitment to fostering a strong alignment with investors. Systematica Investments has a global presence with offices in Jersey, Geneva, London, New York, Singapore and Shanghai.
Skills Required
- Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant with strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge
- Experience in financial services, asset management, audit, or a complex multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional or multi-currency environment
- Good working knowledge of Excel and ability to analyze, reconcile, and interpret financial data
- Understanding of balance sheet accounting, accruals, prepayments, intercompany accounting, and foreign-currency transactions
- Experience preparing statutory accounts and supporting external audits
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to investigate issues independently
- Good systems aptitude and experience using ERP or finance systems
- Proactive approach with ownership of tasks and continuous process improvement
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities while maintaining accuracy
- Exposure to regulatory reporting in Jersey, the UK, Singapore, or similar jurisdictions
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP and reporting or data visualization tools
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with Finance and wider business stakeholders
- Degree-level education or equivalent
- Part-qualified or newly qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or similar accountant
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Systematica Investments is a quantitative investment management firm focused on a systematic approach to investing, leveraging science and technology.
