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  Senior Accountant / Client Manager Location: London (flexible) Salary: Competitive (Dependent on Experience) Job Type: Full-time Company: FA Accountants Ltd Join a Growing Firm Where Your Career Can Grow Too FA Accountants Ltd is an ambitious and fast-growing accountancy practice committed to delivering exceptional accounting, tax and advisory services to businesses across the UK. We pride ourselves on building long-term relationships with our clients through excellent service, practical advice and modern technology. As our client base continues to expand, we are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Accountant / Client Manager to join our growing team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys taking ownership of client relationships, working across a variety of industries and helping shape the future of a young and dynamic practice. The Role You will manage a portfolio of clients while supporting the directors in delivering high-quality accounting and advisory services. Your responsibilities will include: • Preparing statutory accounts for limited companies, partnerships and sole traders., • Preparing and reviewing management accounts., • Preparing VAT returns and ensuring compliance with HMRC requirements., • Preparing Corporation Tax and Self Assessment Tax Returns., • Managing bookkeeping assignments using cloud accounting software., • Processing payroll and pension submissions., • Liaising directly with HMRC and Companies House., • Supporting clients with day-to-day accounting queries., • Assisting with year-end accounts and audit preparation where required., • Reviewing junior team members' work and providing guidance., • Identifying opportunities to improve client processes and deliver added value., • Building and maintaining strong client relationships. About You We are looking for someone who is: • ACCA/ACA qualified or finalist., • Experienced within an accountancy practice or with strong transferable finance experience., • Confident preparing management accounts and financial statements., • Experienced with VAT, payroll and bookkeeping., • Familiar with cloud accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks or Sage., • Highly organised with excellent attention to detail., • A confident communicator who enjoys working with clients., • Proficient in Microsoft Excel., • Able to work independently while contributing positively to a team environment. Experience with corporation tax, personal tax and practice management software would be advantageous but is not essential. What We Offer • Competitive salary based on experience., • Clear career progression within a rapidly growing practice., • Ongoing professional development and support towards professional qualifications where applicable., • Exposure to a diverse portfolio of clients., • Friendly, supportive and collaborative working environment., • Opportunity to help shape and grow a modern accountancy practice., • Company pension., • Paid annual leave., • Regular team development and training. Why Join FA Accountants Ltd? At FA Accountants Ltd, you'll be more than just another employee. As a growing firm, every team member has the opportunity to make a real impact. We value initiative, continuous learning and delivering outstanding service to our clients. If you're looking for a role where your ideas are welcomed and your career can progress alongside the business, we'd love to hear from you. To apply, please send your CV together with a short covering email explaining why you would be a great fit for FA Accountants Ltd.

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• Dashi group Dashi Construction ltd

  

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• Klarmans & Co

  

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• QBE Insurance

  

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• Wise

  

  Product Lead - Financial Crime Platform

  7 days ago

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  hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Company Description \n Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. \n Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. \n As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. \n More about our mission and what we offer. \n Job Description \n The Financial Crime Platform at Wise is dedicated to enhancing the scalability, efficiency, and quality of Wise Operations. We aim to minimise these three things: \n\n • Develop a robust framework for generating and distributing work across all operations, ensuring tasks are assigned to the right person at the right time.\n, • Create tools and frameworks that empower teams to design their specific workflows, accelerating time to market and offering customisable complexity.\n, • Establish a comprehensive reference for a 360-degree view of customer data, enabling our operations to swiftly identify and address issues.\n\n Our squad consists of approximately 30 skilled professionals, organised into three cross-functional teams, all focused on reducing handling time, increasing automation, and minimising friction through innovative technology. \n As the Product Lead of the Financial Crime Platform Squad, you will lead a dynamic and cross-functional squad with three teams. \n Key Responsibilities: \n\n • Lead the Financial Crime Platform Squad in initiatives aimed improving our platform\n, • Collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, and Compliance teams to integrate improvements across the product lifecycle.\n, • Oversee the execution of key projects, including standardisation of all compliance and risk processes, consolidation of tooling and adjacent functions (QA, WFM, an moreI)\n, • Provide strategic direction while being hands-on in project leadership and execution.\n\n This role will give you the opportunity to: \n\n • Build world-class products with a world class product and engineering team: The role is a unique opportunity to build innovative, state-of-the-art solutions. It’s also an opportunity to work with some of the smartest product thinkers in the world.\n, • Make a real impact on people's lives - by building world-class products you will be able to make a change on real people and how they relate to international transfers - how they pay, hold and receive funds internationally - helping people to make the best use of their money across the region. Directly impacting Wise's mission zero by reducing the cost of servicing, opening a way to decrease our prices.\n, • Empower people to make decisions - we want people closest to the problems to drive solutions. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls.\n, • Grow as a leader - You will build and inspire your own team, but also other teams to contribute to our mission.\n, • Being a key connection between global and regional product teams and operational teams. Interacting with almost all product teams at Wise, gaining a deep understanding of all of our products.\n\n Qualifications \n A couple of skills that might describe you as a Product Lead: \n\n • You’ve built products at scale – You’ve worked on a product with thousands or even millions of customers. You’re able to navigate the product and organisational complexity of a product at scale.\n, • You have leadership experience – You’ve led product teams before, and have experience hiring and growing the team. You have hired product managers of different seniority levels (IC and Lead level) and successfully onboarded them.\n, • You’re hands on – You thrive as a player-coach. You are able to operate at many levels of detail, flipping between executing as an individual contributor and leading a wider team. You have a superpower as an individual contributor, whether it’s going deep on data analysis, design, regulations or engineering.\n, • You’re data-driven – You are able to self-serve with data, and use it to both identify opportunities and measure your impact. You can get the entire company behind you by telling stories with data.\n, • You have fresh ideas - You don’t accept the status quo, but are interested in solving problems in novel ways. You are able to communicate the impact of those ideas and formulate plans to implement them\n\n Additional Information \n Leading at Wise \n Our 4D leadership framework, defined by four key attributes, captures what it means to be an impactful leader at Wise. Our unique culture gives teams and individuals the autonomy to make impactful decisions for our customers. Leaders empower their teams to deliver this impact and champion our culture. \n\n • \n Design: Our leaders design the strategic direction, empowering their teams to operate autonomously and make data-driven decisions that directly benefit our customers. \n • \n Drive: They drive a high-performing culture by acting as a coach, nurturing an environment of continuous development and growth. \n • \n Develop: Leaders actively develop resilience and emotional intelligence to lead authentically and by example. \n • \n Disrupt: They disrupt the status quo by championing change and innovation, constantly seeking new ways to achieve our mission. \n\n For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. \n We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. \n Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers. \n If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs. \n Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

• QBE Insurance

  

  Country Underwriting Manager - European Insurance

  16 days ago

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  hackajob is collaborating with QBE Insurance to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Primary Details \n Time Type: Full time \n Worker Type: Employee \n Country Underwriting Manager - European Insurance \n Role Highlights \n\n • \n London with hybrid working \n • \n Shape underwriting strategy and drive portfolio performance. \n\n The Opportunity \n We’re looking for a Country Underwriting Manager to join our team in a key leadership role, shaping underwriting strategy and driving portfolio performance. This is an opportunity to influence the direction of our business, ensuring alignment with QBE’s overall product and segment strategy while delivering sustainable growth. \n Working closely with Product and Distribution teams, you’ll play a central role in driving business performance and leading high-performing underwriting teams. With a strong focus on collaboration, leadership, and strategic decision-making, you’ll support the continued development of our people while ensuring underwriting practices are consistent, effective, and aligned with our broader objectives. \n In addition to managing the P&L for the country, this role will also help and enable us to develop expertise and be our single point of contact for all DUAs and facilities in Europe. \n About QBE \n At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch. \n We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner. \n What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. \n Your new role \n Strategy & Planning \n\n • \n Develop and deliver country underwriting strategies aligned to business objectives, product strategy, and regulatory requirements \n • \n Partner with Product and European leadership to shape and execute the business plan \n • \n Provide underwriting and portfolio insights to support strategic decision-making \n • \n Ensure alignment across underwriting frameworks, pricing, and product development \n\n Portfolio & Underwriting Management \n\n • \n Oversee portfolio performance, ensuring effective monitoring, reporting, and actions to optimise profitability \n • \n Maintain underwriting discipline in line with authorities, risk appetite, and regulatory standards \n • \n Ensure accuracy and integrity of data used in underwriting and portfolio analysis \n • \n Lead portfolio reviews and recommend strategies for growth or remediation \n • \n Drive continuous improvement in underwriting processes, including automation and innovation \n\n Customer & Market Focus \n\n • \n Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers, customers, and key stakeholders \n • \n Work with Distribution and Product teams to refine underwriting guidelines and propositions \n • \n Incorporate market insights and broker feedback into underwriting and product strategies \n\n Leadership & Team Development \n\n • \n Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing underwriting team \n • \n Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and support professional growth \n • \n Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture with strong cross-functional alignment \n • \n Ensure team understanding of business plans to support effective decision-making \n\n Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role. QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion. \n About you \n\n • \n A relevant background in Facilities / DUA to include leadership and Team Management \n • \n The ability to lead a diverse team, fostering collaboration and high performance. \n • \n Strategic Thinking - Ability to develop and implement effective underwriting and portfolio strategies \n • \n Analytical skills - Ability to analyse and interpret data to guide business decisions and improve performance \n • \n Sales Oriented - Focus on market and support sales and product offerings \n • \n Data Integrity - Strong focus on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of data used in underwriting and portfolio management to support informed decision making. \n\n Benefits \n We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from: \n As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you! \n\n • \n 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days. \n\n\n • \n Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours. \n\n\n • \n Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary. \n\n To learn more about benefits of working with us, click Rewarding our people - QBE European Operations \n Awards & Recognition \n We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards: \n Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2025: \n\n • \n Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year \n • \n Winner: ESG, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year \n\n Working Dads Employer Awards 2023 Winner: \n\n • \n Parental Policies Award \n\n To learn more about our achievements, click Awards & Recognitions - QBE European Operations \n Apply now and let’s make it happen! \n If you’re looking for a career that combines your expertise and your empathy, click Apply today. \n Your career. 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• Sainsbury's DTD

  

  Finance Manager - Electric Vehicle Charging

  5 days ago

  London

  hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen. \n Finance Manager – Electric Vehicle Charging \n About the team \n Join a fast-growing and innovative area of the business focused on electric vehicle charging. As part of a high-performing finance team supporting a developing EV proposition, you will play a key role in helping shape the commercial and financial direction of the business. Working in a collaborative environment, you will partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams across Property, Operations, Marketing and Technology to support sustainable growth, maximise value creation and influence strategic decision-making. \n More about the role \n As Finance Manager, you will act as a trusted Finance Business Partner, providing financial insight, challenge and support to drive commercial performance. You will take ownership of management reporting, budgeting and forecasting activities, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities across the profit and loss account, balance sheet and cashflow. \n Day to day, you will analyse revenue, utilisation, profitability and site performance, translating complex financial data into clear recommendations. You will support investment decisions, develop business cases, model future growth scenarios and help ensure robust financial governance. The role also offers the opportunity to improve reporting processes, enhance data quality and drive greater automation to support faster and more effective decision-making. \n More about you \n You will be a qualified accountant who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders and translating financial information into meaningful business insight. You will be comfortable working in a developing business environment where priorities can evolve, and where commercial judgement, curiosity and proactive problem-solving are highly valued. \n To be successful, you will demonstrate the ability to influence decision-making through evidence-based recommendations, manage competing priorities effectively and work collaboratively across a wide range of functions. You will also be committed to maintaining financial control, improving processes and identifying opportunities to enhance business performance. \n Essential criteria \n\n • \n Professional accounting qualification, for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with current membership or equivalent certification. \n • \n Demonstrable experience producing and interpreting management reporting, budgets and forecasts, including identifying risks and opportunities to support business decision-making. \n • \n Proven ability to build financial models, evaluate investment proposals and present commercially focused recommendations to stakeholders. \n • \n Experience managing financial controls, including cashflow forecasting, balance sheet management, accruals, revenue recognition, capital investment governance and performance reporting. \n • \n Demonstrable ability to influence stakeholders through data-led analysis, clear financial insight and constructive commercial challenge. \n • \n Experience improving financial reporting processes, data quality and/or automation to support faster and more effective decision-making. \n\n We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: \n Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. \n Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. \n Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. \n Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

• Wise

  

  Senior Credit Risk Manager

  1 month ago

  London

  hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Company Description \n Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. \n Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. \n As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. \n More about our mission and what we offer. \n Job Description \n As Wise continues to scale and evolve its infrastructure, we are looking for a Senior Credit Risk Manager to lead our credit risk framework into its next chapter. You won't just be "checking boxes". You will bridge the gap between traditional credit analysis and advanced quantitative modeling (ICARA/ILAAP) to ensure our global network of banks, NBFIs, and corporate partners remains resilient. \n Key Responsibilities \n Credit Evaluation & Advanced Analysis: \n\n • \n Fundamental Analysis: Conduct deep-dive financial analysis of banks, NBFIs, and corporate clients, evaluating liquidity, capital adequacy, and asset quality. \n • \n Limit Management: Design and assign credit limits for financial partners and Wise Platform clients, ensuring they align with our evolving risk appetite. \n • \n Internal Rating Models: Lead the application and refinement of internal credit rating models to ensure risk-sensitive pricing and exposure management. \n • \n Credit risk recommendation: document and support credit decisions and recommendations to the Credit Risk Committee and the Asset & Liabilities Committee (ALCO) \n\n Quantitative Risk Analysis, Concentration Risk & Stress Testing: \n\n • \n Single Name exposures: Act as the SME for concentration and counterparty risk limits, ensuring that our bond holdings, bank deposits, and MMF investments collectively stay within regulatory concentration limits. \n • \n Capital & Liquidity Modeling: Contribute quantitative expertise to ICARA and ILAAP processes, including modeling the credit risk of the investment book under stressed conditions. \n • \n Scenario Analysis: Run "what-if" scenarios on the credit portfolio (e.g., a rating downgrade of a major bond issuer or a liquidity freeze in the Repo market). \n\n Investment Portfolio & Exposure Monitoring: \n\n • \n Instrument Analysis: Conduct credit assessments and provide risk-based opinions on investment instruments, including Sovereign/Corporate Bonds, Money Market Funds (MMFs), and Repurchase Agreements (Repos). \n • \n Risk vs. Reward Rationale: Develop frameworks to evaluate counterparty exposure against financial returns. You will build the rationale for Risk vs. Price and Risk vs. ROI, ensuring Treasury yield targets stay aligned with our credit risk appetite. \n • \n Collateral Management: Assess the quality and "haircuts" of collateral in Repo transactions to ensure Wise is protected against market volatility and counterparty default. \n\n Monitoring, Reporting & Governance: \n\n • \n Proactive Mitigation: Manage real-time alerts for limit breaches, overshots, and deteriorating credit signals. \n • \n Committee Leadership: Present well-reasoned recommendations and KPIs to the Credit Risk Committee and ALCO. \n • \n Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the Banking, Treasury, and Payment Ops teams to find "risk-balanced" solutions that support Wise’s growth without compromising safety. \n\n Qualifications \n About You \n\n • \n The Expert: You have proven experience in Counterparty Credit Risk, ideally within a bank or a high-volume fintech. \n • \n Regulatory Capital Knowledgeable: You have a solid grasp ofCounterparty Credit limit, Concentration Risk and capital requirements, understand how to translate such requirements into operational workflows. \n • \n Quant-Leaning: You are comfortable with financial modeling and the quantitative side of risk (Stress testing, EAD/PD/LGD, and capital requirement modeling). \n • \n Certified: You hold an FRM (Financial Risk Manager), PRM, or CFA designation (preferred but not essential). \n • \n Analytical & Decisive: You can look at a complex balance sheet and quickly identify the "red flags," but you also have the communication skills to explain why they matter to non-risk stakeholders. \n\n Additional Information \n Why Join Wise? \n You will be at the forefront of building a world-class risk function in one of the world’s most successful fintechs. This isn't just about maintenance; it's about implementing our Vision of counterparty and credit risk management both globally and regionally as we move toward more sophisticated financial structures. \n For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. \n We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. \n Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers. \n If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs. \n Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.