About the job
Castle Trust Bank is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join its Finance team in London. This hybrid role combines technical finance expertise with the chance to shape key processes at a growing fintech-focused bank. The position offers the flexibility to work from home two days per week.
Role overview
The Senior Finance Analyst will focus on building, maintaining, and refining financial models that support management decisions, forecasting, and statutory reporting. This work spans IFRS accounting, impairment modeling, and hedge accounting. The analyst will contribute to month-end and year-end processes, working closely with senior stakeholders and external auditors to ensure accurate and well-governed financial results.
What you will do
- Support the Senior Accountant in preparing financial statements and verifying profits for Group companies.
- Serve as a main contact for external auditors on technical and modeling topics.
- Prepare and maintain technical accounting papers.
- Review and improve the control framework for financial models used in monthly and statutory reporting.
- Research changes to IFRS and assess their impact on the business.
- Run and analyze the Stage 3 Property IFRS 9 model, explaining key movements and drivers.
- Develop discounted cash flow models for IFRS 9 impairment to support provisions for property cases.
- Prepare and manage hedge accounting models, generate accounting entries, and support monthly reporting.
- Prepare and execute amortized cost and Effective Interest Rate (EIR) models to calculate interest income, fee amortization, and balances.
- Monitor and enhance key Finance models, including amortized cost, EIR, prepayment curves, and hedge accounting.
- Provide monthly management information for senior stakeholders, delivering analysis and responding to feedback.
Requirements
This position is well suited to a part-qualified accountant with specialist knowledge in IFRS, impairment modeling, and hedge accounting. Experience working in a regulated banking environment will be valued.
