Quilter
Senior Group Reporting Accountant
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About the Business
Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK’s best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of 31 December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.
The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial advice network and national, Quilter's investment platform and multi-asset solutions and Quilter Invest, the digital savings and investment app. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management and financial planning business, Quilter Cheviot.
At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric.
So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!
About the Role
- Level: 4
- Department: Finance
- Location: Southampton
- Contract: Permanent
As a Senior Group Reporting Accountant, you will play a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial and regulatory reporting across Quilter Group and its subsidiary entities. Working within the Financial and Regulatory Reporting team in Group Finance, you will support the preparation of statutory financial statements and regulatory returns, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.
Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, you will help maintain the integrity and quality of Quilter’s external reporting framework while contributing to ongoing improvements in reporting processes and controls.
Key responsibilities
- Preparing statutory financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (“UK GAAP”).
- Preparing regulatory returns.
- Completing reporting, disclosure, consolidation and control processes for month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting cycles for both financial and regulatory reporting to a high quality and within deadlines.
- Working as part of a team to safeguard the quality of Quilter’s financial and regulatory reporting by ensuring appropriate reporting systems, processes, procedures and controls are in place.
- Working with Technology to help maintain the general ledger account hierarchies within Workday and business processes relating to financial and regulatory reporting.
- Providing information and explanations to the Group’s external auditors.
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About You
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with strong post qualification experience in financial and regulatory reporting
- Good knowledge and understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP
- Practical experience of financial reporting processes and controls
- Excellent organisation and planning skills
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate, high quality reporting
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to change in a complex and changing environment
- Experience of process improvement and reporting simplification activity
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Desirable
- Experience of reporting in the UK financial services industry
- Experience of consolidated reporting
- Experience of regulatory reporting under the Investment Firms Prudential Regime
- Experience of regulatory reporting under Solvency II
- Experience of working with large, complex data sets
- Experience of the financial and regulatory reporting software being used by Quilter (including CDM and Workday)
Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Values
- Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
- Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
- Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
- Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.
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Core Benefits
- Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
- Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
- Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
- Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
- Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
- Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
Our Commitment
We create brighter financial futures for every generation. We do this by guiding our customers and their families through the complexity of planning for their financial future, responding to their rapidly evolving needs and giving them peace of mind. And, with all that’s happening in the world today, our role in society has never been more meaningful. Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care and creativity that we need, to help us get there.
We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone’s contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us.
We are committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect. Our people come from all kinds of backgrounds and have a wide range of expertise, so we welcome your application regardless of your beliefs, culture, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation and or disability. Please contact the talent acquisition team if you need any reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, require information in an alternative format or have any questions around accessibility, we will try our very best to accommodate.
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