THE OPPORTUNITY

We have an opportunity for a Senior Accountant (FTC) to join us on the exciting and rewarding path we are taking here at Castle Trust Bank. Having become a fully authorised bank in 2020, we pride ourselves in being a fintech challenger bank, providing specialist property mortgages, retail finance lending and savings accounts to a variety of customers.
Joining our Finance function, this is a key role supporting technical areas of Finance including the development of new processes and models relating to technical accounting matters, financial statements disclosures and the associated auditor relationships.
Finance technical models – you will manage and enhance key Finance models (including amortised cost, EIR, and hedge accounting), ensuring validation, monitoring, accurate data, and reconciliations. Responsibilities include overseeing monthly outputs, analysing significant changes, and owning stage 3 individually assessed mortgage impairment models, while supporting automation and collaborating with the credit risk team.
MI, financial statements and audit – you will manage monthly MI models, ensuring the accuracy of all inputs, outputs, and technical disclosures in the financial statements. Your duties will include validating and reviewing financial statements – covering areas such as cashflows and credit risk – whilst monitoring audit comments. You will also coordinate the front half of the financial statements with relevant departments like Risk, Legal, and HR to ensure legal, disclosure, and consistency requirements are met, and conduct going concern assessments at year end.
The role will be on a hybrid working arrangement, 3 days a week from either our Basingstoke or London office and the rest of the week from home. Please note this is a fixed-term contract opportunity for up to 6 months in duration.

Please refer the Job description for details