Postcode Lottery UK
Financial Accountant
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What You Will Do As Financial Accountant
This is a broad and dynamic role, with a unique focus on finance systems and lottery draw processes. As a finance business partner, you will work closely with heads of department within your assigned portfolio to monitor, forecast and plan budgets, playing a key role in driving financial performance and informed decision-making.
Alongside this, you will take ownership of overseeing system enhancements, ensuring robust testing and integrity, and evaluating the impact of changes across the finance function. You'll also have the opportunity to support and continuously improve our prize and draw reconciliation processes, ensuring they run smoothly, accurately and efficiently.
Working closely with the Financial Controller and Finance Director, you will provide high-quality insights to support management reporting and strategic decisions. This role offers excellent exposure across the organisation and the change to make a significant contribution to the achievement to both the Finance team and wider Postcode Lottery objectives.
Key Activities And Responsibilities
- The link between finance and the technology and product teams to understand relevant processes and lead process improvement
- Active member in group technology system improvement projects, consulting on the impact to the finance team’s ways of working and ensuring appropriate controls are in place
- Draw planning – Updating and re-forecasting of the draw planner and working with Marketing and Process departments to analyse any additional prizes available
- Liaising with the prize indemnity insurance providers to agree insurance requirements for each draw
- Draw reconciliation – Reconciling financial receipts to draw files to ensure a fully reconciled draw. Working with Process team internally and bank externally if required to investigate and resolve differences and issues arising. Updating draw report summary files and attending all pre- and post-draw meetings
- Building strong relationships with payment providers, ensuring we keep pace with technology advancements
- Responsible for forecasting and reporting of departmental expenditure to Management Accountant and Financial Controller
- Review of monthly payroll
- Maintain appropriate VAT treatment of all company processes and ownership of VAT return completion and filing
- Finance projects – Leading on various projects as well as providing ad-hoc project support when required
- Providing year end audit support
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Key Skills
- Potentially suitable for newly qualified or PQE <2 years with required technical aptitude
- Experience of financial systems (ideally Oracle ERP) and processes
- Advanced excel skills with experience of analysis, balance sheet review and reconciliation
- Clear understanding of back end processes to be able to investigate issues
- Sound communication skills
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We offer
- A Rewarding salary
- A Competitive Salary, a variable year-end bonus, 36 days' holiday a year based on a 37.5 hour week, and flexible working hours.
Development
- The opportunity to develop your career. All team members have the option of applying for funding for a chosen training topic of their choice.
Work And Travel Benefits
- You'll get an Ridacard, which offers unlimited travel across the Lothian Bus Network, even outside working hours!
Pension
- Our pension is with Scottish Widows Personal Pension Scheme, we contribute 10%, on top of your contribution of 4%.
Fit & Healthy together
- Free private healthcare including dental for all team members and covered from your first day.
- Your wellbeing is important to us, so we have 24 hour access to support services such as mental health support, physiotherapy and remote GPs.
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Family Time
- Maternity Pay: 16 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50%.
- Paternity Pay: 4 weeks at 100%.
- Shared Parental Pay: 14 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50% of average weekly earnings.
Meet the team
Postcode Lottery Group is a private company, fully owned by a non-profit foundation. Our international team works across Europe in our welcoming offices in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Dusseldorf, and London, and are joining forces every day to further grow the Postcode Lottery’s impact.
About Us
A marketing-driven charity organisation
The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!
Our purpose: a better world, for everyone
Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €15 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day.
Inclusion and equal opportunities
People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it’s our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that’s just who we are.
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