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Senior Financial Control Analyst

Monzo Bank· Finance
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Hybrid (London/Cardiff)£56k - £75kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Financial Control Analyst based in London or Cardiff, focusing on financial accounting, month-end close, technical accounting, and process automation within Monzo’s Financial Control team.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a tight process with the rest of our internal Finance team to ensure a swift month-end close process and group consolidation.
  • Understand the business and our products to write insightful management commentary.
  • Understand our accounting systems and make sure we are taking advantage of all features we can to minimise manual elements of reporting.
  • Embrace the opportunity to improve and transform processes, driving incremental improvements through to adoption of AI.
  • Learn SQL skills to run reports and propose solutions that make our processes efficient and scalable.
  • Support our year end process working with external auditors and our Financial Reporting squad.
  • Help review new products, assessing the accounting and implementing them in our banking platform and accounting system.
  • Work with the business to assess the impact of changes in accounting standards and make proposals on accounting policy matters for new products launched.
  • Help maintain the integrity of our chart of accounts and financial static data.
  • Resolve miscellaneous inquiries and support the overall finance team wherever needed - from forecasting and valuations, to bank transfers, transfer pricing and tax policy research!

Qualifications

  • You’re a qualified accountant with a few years’ post-qualification experience, ideally in financial reporting/controlling teams and working in a retail banking environment
  • You have a strong understanding of technical accounting standards
  • You have a great eye for detail
  • You’re fascinated by the banking and regulatory landscape, and have a good understanding of key financial controls
  • You’re a self-starter and enjoy tackling what needs doing, whether it’s making a bank transfer or pulling together reports for investors
  • You’re comfortable translating complex information into simple words for people with diverse backgrounds
  • You’re interested in using data (SQL skills would be a bonus)
  • You embrace change and are motivated to improve and innovate process
  • You thrive in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment
  • What we’re doing at Monzo excites you!

Skills

Required:Month-end closeManagement commentaryAccounting systems optimization
Nice to have:Process automationSQL

Benefits

  • £56,000 - £75,000 + Incentive Awards tied to performance
  • This role can be based in London or Cardiff with distributed UK working arrangements
  • Flexible working hours and trust to work hours that suit you and the team
  • £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses and conferences
  • Home setup support for remote workers (Macbooks provided)
  • Plus additional benefits listed in full benefits page
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Monzo Bank

A bank as smart as your phone.

YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!

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