About Us
 

Rothschild & Co is a leading global financial services group with seven generations of family control and a history of over 200 years at the centre of the world's financial markets.

Our expertise, intellectual capital and global network enable us to provide a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients, communities and planet.

We have 4,600 talented specialists on the ground in over 40 countries around the world, enabling us to deliver a unique global perspective across four market-leading business divisions – Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Five Arrows.

As a family-controlled business built on relationships, we place a huge emphasis on our people and finding the right colleagues to take our business forward.

Rothschild & Co is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment where different perspectives are valued. We are focused on the attraction and recruitment, development and retention and progression of high calibre talent to ensure we and our clients benefit from the value of difference.

Team background

The Group Finance financial reporting team collects, prepares and fully explains R&Co Group’s external and internal reporting to management and investors.  We have close relationships with both the business finance teams, who submit data to us, and who we help with accounting issues; the Group Systems team, who we work alongside with our consolidation and reporting tools; and other Group functions who use our data.  The team is also the Group’s technical accounting department and are therefore involved in many of the group’s strategic and corporate finance initiatives.

There is a full-time vacancy in the team, which comprises five experienced accounting professionals.

Regular reporting

• Review and analysis of financial accounts data received from subsidiaries, so that we can fully explain them to the Group CFO/ investor relations team/ Group risk etc
• Own specified working papers to support different notes in the accounts.  We produce these based on Excel modelling principles, which reduces errors and aids review and common working.
• Be part of a consolidation sub-team, which produces actual, budget and forecast consolidations for the Group accounts and management reporting.  These are integral to the reports used for the board pack and in the external reporting for investors
• Assist with preparing the Group Finance team’s publications, both external (published accounts, new accounting disclosures in the Group accounts) and internal (e.g. quarterly newsletter).
• Assist accountants from our three businesses with queries and training

Further duties

• As we are at the corporate centre of the Group, we need to understand the new products/ transactions etc of all our businesses.  The successful candidate will contribute to accounting papers on these following discussions with business CFOs and auditors.
• Project work.  As an example, we are assisting with a major Group Finance system development, particularly in relation to reporting tools and consolidation accounting
• Assist in maintaining and testing the Group’s consolidation system
• Liaise with Group Finance management and systems accountants on topics of joint interest
• Form a good working relationship with auditors and with key accountants in the Group, assisting and developing them.  This may involve travel in Europe
• Assist with other matters as required

Qualities sought

• Teamwork: the team works flexibly to support each other and to produce all our work under common standards
• An interest in understanding complex subjects (with an aim of explaining them to a non-expert)
• We want someone who wants to “look underneath the bonnet” of the systems that we use to help solve any issues or understand unexpected data
• A “can-do” attitude

Qualifications/ expertise desired

• A background in accounting (eg ACA or equivalent)
• Evidence of strong academics
• Ability to write and speak French would be desirable