Overview
Senior Controls Accountant – Milton Keynes
About The Role
SALARY: From £41,567 pa dependent on experience
LOCATION: One Delaware Drive, Milton Keynes
HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role. (Normally The Team works in the office Tuesday and Thursday and During Month end WD 1-2-3).
HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: 35 hours per week, fixed term contract until 31.12.2027
CLOSING DATE: 02/10/2025 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.
We’re looking for a Senior Controls Accountant to support and deputise for the Accounting Controls Manager, taking ownership of building and maintaining a robust financial controls environment. This role focuses on ensuring ledger integrity through accurate reconciliations, evaluating and improving processes and systems, and delivering insightful financial analysis. The role also acts as a Subject Matter Expert on core systems, guiding change initiatives, supporting audit readiness, and collaborating across departments to ensure correct accounting treatment and reliable financial reporting.
What you’ll be doing:
- Maintain and enhance reconciliation processes across SAP FI and CMS, working closely with other departments to build end-to-end process knowledge, strengthen controls, and ensure accurate financial reporting and accounting treatment.
- Review current manual processes and implement new ones where needed to ensure accounting postings are correct and robust controls are in place. Develop models or ad hoc solutions for outputs not supported by current systems.
- Understand the impact of operational changes to procedures and core business systems to ensure correct accounting treatment.
- Provide insightful analysis and solid presentation of monthly results to both financial and non-financial colleagues
- The incumbent will become the Subject Matter Expert on core applications and processes in order to provide accurate analysis and solutions to current defects ensuring ledger integrity and operational efficiency.
- Deputise for the Accounting Controls Manager, including team management and support.
What you’ll bring:
You’ll be an ACCA/CIMA qualified accountant, or have 3-5 year equivalent experience.
You’ll be a dynamic and analytical professional with a passion for improving financial systems and processes..
Essential experience & skills
- Detailed understanding of operational system design and financial integrity
- Up to date awareness of regulatory and compliance legislation as it impacts on the role
- Experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders
- Proven ability to work with large volumes of data, leveraging automation tools to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Strong understanding of controls and process improvement methodologies.
- Skilled in navigating complex data sets and systems to deliver actionable insights and support strategic initiatives.
- Experience in supporting projects, small changes and business changes desirable
What’s in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.
About The Organisation
Why join VWFS UK?
Our mission is straight forward; we want to be ‘The Key to Mobility’. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.
