Job Description
Job Description
A 12-month opportunity has become available for a recently qualified or early post-qualified accountant to join our Corporate Reporting team within a growing and ambitious FTSE 250 business.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys the storytelling and governance side of corporate reporting and wants to build their experience in a visible, externally focused role. You will gain exposure to senior stakeholders and play an active part in writing and shaping our Annual and Half Year Reports, ensuring our financial, strategic and ESG disclosures are clear, consistent and aligned to our commercial strategy.
Working closely with colleagues across Finance, Legal, Risk and the wider business, you will gather information, draft disclosures and coordinate inputs to produce high-quality external reporting. This is a great opportunity to deepen your understanding of listed company reporting requirements while developing strong drafting and stakeholder management skills.
If you are organised, detail focused and keen to build your experience in corporate reporting within a regulated environment, this role will offer broad exposure and meaningful responsibility from day one.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate & Strategic Reporting
- Support the production of the Annual Report and Half Year Report, with a strong focus on drafting and refining narrative content
- Assist in shaping the Strategic Report, ensuring messaging is clear, commercially aligned and compliant
- Draft and review key sections of the Annual Report, including governance, risk and regulatory disclosures
- Coordinate inputs from stakeholders across the business to ensure consistency and quality of messaging
- Prepare papers and supporting documentation for the Audit Committee and external auditors
- Monitor developments in corporate reporting regulation and best practice, ensuring ongoing compliance
- Draft technical accounting and reporting papers explaining the impact of new standards, focusing on clarity of communication rather than calculation
ESG & Sustainability Reporting
- Support the drafting of ESG disclosures, including TCFD and other regulatory requirements
- Coordinate ESG data inputs from across the business to ensure accurate and consistent reporting
- Assist in the preparation of ESG dashboards and reporting updates
- Help ensure ESG reporting is aligned to regulatory expectations and industry best practice
Projects & Continuous Improvement
- Support ad hoc reporting and disclosure projects
- Contribute to improvements in reporting processes and controls
- Maintain a strong understanding of our business model, strategy and market positioning to ensure external reporting reflects the organisation accurately
About You
ACA or ACCA qualified (or due to qualify shortly), with experience gained in audit or financial reporting within a listed or regulated environment.
You will demonstrate:
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to draft clear, structured narrative content
- Experience contributing to Annual Reports or other regulated external reporting
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and managing multiple inputs
- A strong understanding of IFRS and corporate reporting requirements
- An organised and detail-focused approach, with the ability to meet tight reporting deadlines
- The ability to interpret technical accounting or regulatory requirements and translate them into clear disclosures
Desirable
- Experience within Financial Services
- Exposure to ESG and TCFD reporting
About us
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK’s ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 and 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
What we offer
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free gym membership
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent development programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That’s why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we would love to speak to you.
