Join us as a Financial Control Associate
Hone your skills as you provide control of our financial ledger
We’ll look to you to support change initiatives, process improvements and in system implementations
You’ll be exposed to experts across the Finance function, putting you in a unique position to build a credible professional network that will open the door to excellent career developments
We're offering this role at associate level
In this role you’ll be responsible for the delivery and integrity of monthly financial information, statutory and external reporting, value added commentary and analysis for your business area. You’ll provide, support and input into the end to end control and ownership of franchise and legal entity balance sheets for your business area, fixed assets accounting, and project accounting and reporting.
Along with this, you’ll provide legal entity recharge accounting including full substantiation and reconciliation of the balance sheet, and profit and loss accounts within a controlled framework.
In this role you’ll:
Investigate process or system issues
Undertake activities assigned on a timely basis and highlight and process improvement opportunities
Support systems testing, such as user acceptance testing and system or process improvement initiatives
Ensure all reports and outputs relating to reconciliations are produced on time and are of high quality
Provide input to and support process improvements, ensuring existing work and development activities are the focus of continuous improvements
Prepare month-end accounting, such as journals preparation, reviews and account reconciliation
To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience in delivering core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audit. You’ll have experience in a financial services environment and knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards, and ideally a qualification in Commerce, CA, ICWA, MBA finance qualification or IFRS certification.
We’ll also look to you to bring:
At least four years of experience in financial control activities
The ability to identify, build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, influencing and challenging as required
An understanding of intercompany and contra account usage requirements and intercompany reconciliations and substantiation
The ability to capture trends of journals posted, reconciliations undertaken, and budget MI released
The ability to understand accounting impact of activity undertaken and highlight and process issues or gap to reviewer
You’ll be working fixed shift patterns of 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
14/09/2026Skills Required
- At least four years of experience in financial control activities
- Experience delivering financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting, and external audit
- Experience in a financial services environment
- Knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards
- Understanding of intercompany and contra account usage, reconciliations, and substantiation
- Ability to build and influence senior-level relationships
- Commerce, CA, ICWA, MBA Finance, or IFRS certification
- Availability to work fixed shifts from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
