We're looking for a qualified Senior Financial Accountant to join our Financial Control team, supporting our Buyagift and Red Letter Days brands. Based in London, you'll play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting, maintaining strong financial controls, and providing valuable insight that helps drive business decisions.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive accountant who enjoys combining financial and management accounting, partnering with stakeholders across the business, and continuously improving processes in a fast-paced environment. You'll take ownership of key areas of the financial statements, support the month-end close, and help ensure the business has the financial information it needs to make informed decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own key areas of the profit and loss account and balance sheet, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Produce insightful management reporting that supports business performance and decision-making.
- Partner with FP&A and stakeholders across the wider business to understand financial performance and support budgeting activities.
- Maintain a robust financial control environment, identifying risks and contributing to successful audits.
- Take ownership of key month-end activities, ensuring deadlines are consistently met to a high standard.
- Review, challenge and improve existing financial processes, identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies across the team and wider business.
About You
- Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) with at least two years' post-qualified experience and strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Proven experience across both financial and management accounting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, can-do approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across the business.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, accurate work.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders, including colleagues outside of Finance.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a small team while confidently taking ownership of individual responsibilities.
- Experience within technology, e-commerce or retail is advantageous but not essential.
Why Join Us?
At Buyagift and Red Letter Days, you'll be joining a collaborative Finance team where your work has a direct impact on business performance. You'll work closely with colleagues across the organisation, provide meaningful financial insight to support decision-making, and play an important role in driving continuous improvement across our financial processes.
If you're looking for a role where you can take ownership, influence key stakeholders and make a real impact within a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.
Our interview process is designed to help us get to know you while giving you the opportunity to learn more about us.
- Stage 1: Interview with the Hiring Manager and a member of the Finance team (30–45 minutes).
- Stage 2: Interview with the Head of Financial Control and a senior member of the Finance team (30–45 minutes).
Offer! 🎉
One stage of the interview stages will be in person, but this will be shared during the screening call.
Our process may vary depending on role and availability. We keep candidates informed of any changes throughout the process.
Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) with at least two years post-qualified experience
- Proven experience across financial and management accounting
- Experience supporting month-end close and owning P&L and balance sheet areas
- Maintain robust financial controls and contribute to successful audits
- Produce insightful management reporting and partner with FP&A and stakeholders
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and stakeholder management
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality, accurate work
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and ability to work collaboratively while taking ownership
- Experience within technology, e-commerce or retail
What We Do
At Moonpig Group our mission is to help people connect and create moments that matter. We’re an international group made up of two brilliant brands – Moonpig in the UK, US and Australia, and Greetz in the Netherlands. We’re a technology platform at heart, but our customers know us as the leading eCommerce destination for greetings cards, gifts and flowers. Last year we delivered over 70 million personalised cards, gifts and flower bouquets in over 50 million orders, helping our customers celebrate all the occasions that matter to them, from milestone birthdays and anniversaries to new arrivals and all of those just-becauses. We have awesome people and a caring company culture: We give teams autonomy while supporting personal growth at all levels. Plus, we know how to have fun! Don’t just take our word for it, though; in Feb 2022, Moonpig was officially recognised as an outstanding company to work for by Best Companies and we earned a 2-Star accreditation, which is Best Companies second-highest standard of workplace engagement and represents organizations striving for the top. Head over to our careers site for more company info and our current opportunities - https://www.moonpig.com/uk/blog/moonpig-careers/moonpig-careers/
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