Assistant Finance Manager - Legal Entity & Securitisation

Location: Edinburgh and Newport, UK; hybrid working with at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site

Salary: £44,901–£54,879 per year

Company

hirify.global is a major UK financial services group focused on innovation, responsible finance, and supporting customers, colleagues, and communities.

What you will do

• Support accurate and timely financial control and reporting for assigned Retail Securitisation entities.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements, working papers, and directors’ reporting materials.
• Coordinate audit deliverables, respond to auditor queries, and support accounts through clearance, signing, and filing.
• Complete month-end controls, including balance sheet reconciliations, journals, ARCS profiles, and movement analysis.
• Prepare and validate securitisation data for Product Control, GDRS enrichment, and Group reporting.
• Build stakeholder relationships, resolve reporting issues, and identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, and automate processes.

Requirements

• Accounting qualification with financial services or statutory reporting experience preferred.
• Strong analytical, organisational, prioritisation, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work at pace and manage competing reporting and audit deadlines.
• Collaborative approach to reporting, financial analysis, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, especially Excel; familiarity with finance systems is advantageous.

Nice to have

• Experience with Power Apps, Python, or AI-related finance tools.
• Ability to learn new systems quickly and improve existing processes and procedures.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with a mix of home and office work.
• Pension contribution of up to 15% and an annual bonus subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares, and lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping.
• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and generous parental leave.
• Support for diversity, equity, inclusion, professional development, and reasonable workplace adjustments.