Finance Analyst - Employee Costs & Pensions

• Owning payroll accounting and ensuring accurate posting into finance systems
• Reconciling payroll systems to the general ledger across pay, tax, pensions and NI
• Reviewing and signing off balance sheet reconciliations for payroll and employee costs
• Partnering with Financial Controls to ensure a robust and compliant control environment
• Leading IAS 19 accounting for defined benefit pension schemes, working with technical specialists and external advisers
• Supporting senior stakeholders with analysis and insights on pension-related commercial decisions
• Acting as the key contact for IFRS 2 (share-based payments) accounting
• Managing incentive scheme provisions in partnership with FP&A and Reward teams
• Supporting ongoing finance transformation and process improvement initiatives

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong technical grounding in IFRS, particularly IAS 19 and IFRS 2
• Background in Big 4 or a large, complex organisation
• Experience in financial reporting, technical accounting or central finance
• Strong analytical capability, including financial modelling
• Confident communicator, comfortable working across finance and non-finance teams
• Exposure to payroll accounting or employee costs is advantageous

Why Apply

• Join a large, household-name organisation with significant scale and complexity
• Work in a role with real ownership of specialist technical areas (pensions, IFRS 2)
• Gain exposure to senior stakeholders, group finance, and external advisers
• Opportunity to be involved in finance transformation and system change programmes
• Strong platform to move into technical accounting, financial control or broader finance leadership roles