Financial Reporting Assistant

We are a financial services business focused on the retail savings, commercial lending and specialist residential mortgage markets. With over 1,000 reviews we are ranked third place within a group of banks, rated as 4.7 out of 5. This puts us in the category of being an excellent service provider.

• Competitive Salary
• Based in Cardiff City Centre operating in a Hybrid workspace.
• Permanent
• Full Time
• 26 days Holiday with the option to buy more.
• Subsidised Gym Membership.
• Private Medical & Health Insurance
• Extensive learning and development programme
• Generous, personalised benefits package
• Enhanced parental leave
• Company pension contribution up to 15%
• Flexible working options
• Opportunities to get involved in our charity and community work

The Hodge Foundation, a charity supporting the welfare, medical, academic, and educational areas own 79% of our business. This drives us, knowing that by helping our customers to achieve their goals, we are also helping good causes that are important to us.

We give back to our local and wider communities through various forms of fundraising and support, and we encourage our people to do the same. Our employees get to take four days off work to do something for good causes with our ‘Four to do More’ initiative.

These are some of the many charities, we are currently working with; Ty hafan, Cardiff Dogs Home and AgeCymru.

We have achieved significant growth over the last few years and have ambitious plans to expand further.

We have an opportunity in our rapidly expanding Finance Division, your focus will be to assist the Regulatory Reporting Manager with regulatory reporting within the organisation, ensuring that information is completed accurately and on a timely basis for the review of senior managers, Board members and external regulators. You will assist with the successful implementation of new regulatory standards and work closely with each area of the business to ensure Hodge’s Pillar III, ICAAP and Recovery Plan documentation is robust.

What will your day look like?

Your key responsibilities as Financial Reporting Assistant will include:

• Assist with maintaining the Bank’s COREP & FINREP manuals and regulatory interpretation documents are kept up to date for any changes in the business or regulation as required and approved on an annual basis.
• Undertake relevant project work when required (e.g. System changes, automation of reports from Data Warehouse etc.).
• Assisting with the assessment of new products from a regulatory viewpoint.
• Assist with addressing any queries or points raised by internal audit.
• Assist with creating a culture of continuous improvement culture within the Regulatory reporting team and the wider Finance function.
• Provide advice and support to colleagues on queries of a more complex or technical nature.
• Establish, maintain and review operational policies and job cards (systems of internal control) to ensure that they are sufficiently robust to adequately safeguard the Bank’s assets and where weaknesses are identified ensure remedial action is taken in a timely manner.
• Be accountable for Identifying, evaluating, and managing all significant risks and where appropriate report on risk identified elsewhere in the Bank.

Are you the one for us?

• Experience within a Trainee Accountant role – ACA/ACCA or equivalent is desirable but not essential
• Sound financial acumen
• Meticulous, analytical and detail focused
• Excellent organisational, time management and project management skills
• Proactive and self motivated
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Excellent IT skills

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to get in touch. Click to apply and submit your CV!

Interested?

Please send your CV and a one page covering letter, shortlisted candidates will then be invited to attend an interview.

Please send your application using the ‘Apply Now’ Button by 05th April 2022.

Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.

ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.