About the role

  • Finance Manager supporting month-end close and group reporting at Jaja. Role involves managing reconciliations, audit deliverables, and accounting for structured finance entities.

Responsibilities

  • Owning the month‑end close across multiple group and structured finance entities
  • Preparing and posting journals in SAP, including accruals, interest, and true‑ups
  • Maintaining accrual schedules, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting working papers
  • Owning statutory audit deliverables and acting as the key contact for external auditors
  • Preparing audit‑ready documentation and supporting year‑end activities
  • Preparing entity‑level and group management accounts
  • Supporting monthly and year‑end group consolidation
  • Analysing performance versus plan and prior periods with clear variance commentary
  • Owning accounting and reporting for securitised SPV structures
  • Reviewing servicer reports and preparing waterfall, accrual, and cash allocation workings
  • Reconciling servicer data to internal records and posting true‑up journals
  • Maintaining interest, financing, and share capital schedules
  • Performing bank and intercompany reconciliations
  • Preparing cash movement files and cash flow analysis

Requirements

  • Experience in management and/or group accounting
  • Strong month‑end close, reconciliation, and control experience
  • Exposure to securitisation structures, SPVs, waterfalls, or structured finance portfolios
  • Experience preparing management accounts and consolidation inputs
  • Strong Excel capability (advanced schedules, reconciliations, and analysis)
  • Experience working with SAP or a similar ERP system
  • Experience liaising with auditors
  • Part‑qualified or qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA preferred)
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail
  • Comfortable managing multiple entities and deadlines simultaneously
  • Proactive, confident, and able to take full ownership of deliverables
  • Able to explain financial movements clearly to non‑technical stakeholders
  • Calm and effective under pressure, with a delivery‑focused mindset

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Pension contributions, including Salary Exchange facility
  • Annual bonus potential
  • Private medical cover provided by Vitality (optional benefit)
  • 25 days annual leave (FTE) plus UK bank holidays (with an additional day added for each full calendar year worked, up to a maximum of 30 days)
  • Your birthday off each year as an additional day's holiday
  • 4x life insurance cover
  • Access to our confidential Employee assistance programme

Job title

Finance Manager

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Location requirements

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