Operational Balance Sheet Controller

Part Time - 20 hours per week

9 month fixed term contract

Competitive Salary

Premium Credit is the leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. We're a multi award winning business lending more than £6bn to over 2.9m customers through a network of almost three thousand partners- and growing.

Certified as a Great Place to Work, we’re a successful business with a Trustpilot rating of 4.5, a Net Promoter Score of +78, a Glassdoor rating of 4.4 and a Silver Sustainability medal.

Join a purpose-led business where your expertise will make a visible difference to controls, reporting quality and how finance supports the wider organisation.

We’re looking for a hands-on finance professional to strengthen financial control, balance sheet integrity and resolution of complex operational reconciliation matters. You’ll act as a technical bridge between Accounting Operations, Finance and audit—being a gatekeeper to key control accounts, leading reconciliations, and supporting systems-led improvements and project-based initiatives. You will also be responsible for leading purpose-driven meetings and producing focus-based reporting to the CFO.

What you’ll do

Financial control and ledger oversight

• Owns and manages key balance sheet and control accounts, including aged debtor and creditor positions.

• Leads investigation and resolution of complex ledger mapping and reconciliation matters, working across our internal ops system, MS Dynamics and MI cubes.

• Regularly produces and circulates ageing analyses and supports month‑end close and review processes.

• Acts as owner of balances for year-end external audit.
  Organises and chairs working sessions to resolve long‑standing accounting and reporting issues.

Key deliverables

• Update and maintain detailed holding account aged reconciliations.

• Produce the monthly Receivables and Payables report.

• Oversee and review the monthly AOR reconciliations and investigate anomalies.

• Provide journals and weekly target lists to Operations to support focus on reducing aged payables and receivables.

• Maintain reconciliations between Ops GL balance sheet and Corporate GL balance sheet.

• Reconcile receivables to securitisation reporting.

• Run the system clear down process.

What you’ll bring

You’re a qualified accountant, naturally inquisitive with an eye for detail and the ability resolve problems. You’re able to build relationships at all levels of the business, confidently leading meetings and able to communicate financial information to non-finance colleagues.

You have

• Financial control / balance sheet reconciliation experience, with the confidence to investigate and resolve complex issues.

• Comfort working across finance systems and data flows (e.g., general ledger platforms, reporting tools such as Power BI, banking interfaces), with a continuous-improvement mindset.

• Ability to communicate technical accounting matters clearly to operational and audit stakeholders.

• Proactive, organised approach—able to prioritise, lead working sessions and drive actions through to closure.

Why join Premium Credit

• Great Place to Work certified (UK & Ireland).

• A culture of recognition through our Premium Awards

• Flexible working options to help you work your way. You will need to come to the office regularly during your training then once a week.

• 25 days annual leave (pro rata) as well as holiday purchase: option to buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave (pro rata).

• Wellbeing support including access to an Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders.

• Benefits that support long-term security, including pension, life assurance and income protection (via our benefits platform).

• Lifestyle savings through a corporate discounts scheme.

We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments or accommodations for applicants, so if you need assistance or support during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form or by sending an email to recruitment@pcl.co.uk

If you’re made an offer of employment, you'll be required to prove your eligibility to work in the UK before you start work. You must reside in the UK from the start date of this role; unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

To ensure you can work from home efficiently you'll be asked to provide your internet speed at the application stage.

Premium Credit are an equal opportunities employer with a strong and passionate commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the workplace. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business, and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. We are open to part-time working and job share.

By submitting your application, you agree that Premium Credit may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. PCL uses AI tools to assist with our review of applications, including to summarise CVs against relevant job criteria and transcribe interviews. However, our team always makes the final decision on any application. Please see our privacy notice (https://www.premiumcredit.com/Recruitment-privacy-notice) for further information on how we process your personal data during the application process.

All postholders will be subject to appropriate pre-employment vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we identify a number of suitable candidates. All applicants will be advised if the vacancy closes early.