FINREP Accountant
Posted 1 day ago by Trace | Expert Accountancy & Finance Recruitment
£75,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Onsite
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The FINREP Reporting Analyst role at a FTSE-listed bank involves taking ownership of the Group FINREP standard, ensuring compliance with current regulatory requirements, and enhancing the overall FINREP processes. The position requires hands-on experience in FINREP within a banking environment and focuses on improving controls and sustainability. The role is outcomes-focused and offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will report to the Senior Technical Accounting Manager and will be expected to work closely with senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Taking ownership of the Group FINREP standard and refreshing it to reflect current regulatory requirements.
- Conducting a full end-to-end review of FINREP processes, identifying gaps, manual workarounds, and key person dependencies.
- Designing and embedding better controls, ensuring proper documentation aligned to group standards.
- Acting as the technical authority on FINREP, including template-level analysis and mapping reviews.
- Supporting BAU delivery of quarterly FINREP returns as needed.
- Building in sustainability through knowledge transfer and handover documentation.
- Keeping senior stakeholders informed with clear progress reporting.
Key Skills:
- Hands-on FINREP experience within a bank.
- Professional qualifications preferred (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIA) or equivalent experience.
- Experience with controls transformation programmes.
- Familiarity with GRC tools is advantageous.
- Ability to work to a clear timeline in a fixed-term contract environment.
Salary (Rate): £75,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
FINREP Reporting Analyst | Banking | £65,000 - £75,000 | City | 50% Office Based | 12 month FTC
If you know FINREP properly, not just "I've touched it" but actually know it, this contract is worth a look. A FTSE-listed bank is looking for someone to come in and own our FINREP setup end-to-end. That means reviewing the whole process from source systems to submission, fixing what needs fixing, tightening up the controls, and leaving things in a significantly better state than you found them. It's a meaningful piece of work, with real scope to make an impact and a clear mandate to get it done. You'll be reporting into the Senior Technical Accounting Manager. It's hands-on, outcomes-focused, and the kind of role where you will make progress in and leave you r mark.
What the role actually involves
- Taking ownership of the Group FINREP standard and refreshing it to reflect current regulatory requirements
- Doing a full end-to-end review of FINREP processes, finding the gaps, the manual workarounds, the key person dependencies
- Designing and embedding better controls, properly documented and aligned to group standards
- Acting as the technical authority on FINREP; template-level analysis, mapping reviews, interpretation challenges
- Supporting BAU delivery of quarterly FINREP returns where needed
- Building in sustainability; knowledge transfer, handover docs, making sure BAU teams can run it once you're done
- Keeping senior stakeholders informed throughout with clear progress reporting
What we're looking for
This is a specialist role, so the bar is fairly specific. You'll need hands-on FINREP experience within a bank. Professionally qualified is preferred (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIA) but equivalent experience will be taken seriously. If you've worked on controls transformation programmes or have familiarity with GRC tools, even better. This is a fixed-term contract, so we're looking for someone who can hit the ground running and work to a clear timeline. If that suits how you like to work, it's a great opportunity — genuinely interesting subject matter, good team, and proper work to get your teeth into.
For immediate consideration, please contact Harry at Trace Recruitment.