Fordham Talent Partnership
Compensation Accountant
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This role sits at the heart of how the organisation rewards and supports its network of managers and affiliated firms.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring compensation activity runs smoothly from calculations and payments to reporting and stakeholder support while helping modernise the underlying frameworks and processes as the business evolves.
It’s a position for someone who enjoys working with numbers, systems, and people, and who wants to contribute to a compensation model that is becoming more structured, scalable, and insight-driven.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing the end-to-end production of compensation outputs calculations, summaries, and payments ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.
- Working with finance colleagues to ensure compensation entries are correctly reflected in month-end results.
- Acting as a go-to contact for compensation questions, helping internal teams and partner firms understand their statements and resolve issues.
- Spotting gaps or weaknesses in data, processes, or controls, and helping strengthen them.
- Improving reporting and insight by working with finance and other teams to enhance dashboards, analysis, and management information.
- Supporting upgrades to systems and tools used for compensation and reporting.
- Contributing to the redesign of compensation processes so they become more efficient, transparent, and scalable.
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- A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), ideally with up to 2-3 years PQE
- Experience in financial analysis, compensation, financial control, or a similar discipline.
- Background in financial services environments is helpful but not essential.
- Ability to explain financial information clearly to people who may not have a technical background.
- Strong analytical skills and confidence working with large or complex datasets.
- A proactive mindset someone who naturally looks for ways to simplify, improve, and strengthen processes.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across different teams.
- Advanced Excel capability.
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