Financial Accountant

🇯🇪 Saint Helier, Jersey Presencial Publicado Mai 13, 2026

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Localização Saint Helier, Jersey

Modalidade Presencial

Idioma English

Publicado 13 de Maio de 2026

Última verificação 30 de Maio de 2026

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Financial Accountant at Legend: Saint Helier, Jersey; Presencial. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.

Location and workplace: Saint Helier, Jersey, Presencial
Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-30.
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About Legend

At Legend, we're building next-level player experiences. With 20+ years of proven success we’re the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.

Our people are our edge. 600+ sharp, ambitious Legends across 22+ countries who move fast, learn quickly and win together. Here growth isn’t a perk, it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If you’re ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it, this is where you’ll thrive.

The Role:

Legend is hiring a Financial Accountant, reporting directly to our Senior Financial Reporting Manager located in St Helier, Jersey.

The Financial Reporting team plays a central role within the global Finance function, partnering with the business to support ongoing growth while safeguarding financial compliance, transparency and integrity across the group.

As Financial Accountant, you will support the accurate, clear and timely reporting of financial performance to internal and external stakeholders. You will work across the balance sheet, cash flow and P&L, helping to ensure financial outputs are robust, well-controlled and insight-led. This role offers strong visibility, tangible impact and the opportunity to influence reporting quality, financial performance and decision-making in a fast-paced, multinational listed environment.

Your Impact:

Review and validate accounting records across the balance sheet, ensuring accuracy, completeness and appropriate support.
Build and maintain high-quality reconciliations, working papers and reporting schedules.
Support cash flow monitoring, forecasting and financial performance reporting.
Oversee the quality and integrity of financial outputs produced by finance operations.
Deliver clear, value-driven insight into financial performance through monthly management reporting and internal reviews.
Identify key trends, risks, opportunities and variances, providing challenge and commentary to support informed decision-making.
Partner with Finance Operations, FP&A and business stakeholders to ensure financial information is clearly communicated and consistently applied.
Contribute to process improvement initiatives that enhance reporting quality, internal controls and operational efficiency.
Support audit, governance and compliance processes as part of the wider financial reporting cycle.
Play an active role in strengthening stakeholder trust in the integrity and usefulness of financial information.

What You’ll Bring:

Qualified accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA.
3–5 years’ experience in an accounting or financial reporting environment.
Strong understanding of accounting standards, financial reporting principles and the financial reporting lifecycle.
Experience working across balance sheet, P&L and cash flow reporting.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial data, investigate variances and identify risks or opportunities.
Excellent attention to detail, with a meticulous approach to reconciliations, schedules and reporting outputs.
Confidence using Excel and familiarity with accounting or ERP systems.
A proactive, curious and improvement-focused mindset.
Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across finance and the wider business.
Exposure to M&A activity or post-acquisition integration would be advantageous but is not essential.
Alteryx experience desirable but not essential.

The Interview Process:

Interview with the Talent Partner (30 mins via Zoom)
1 hour onsite Interview with the Senior Financial Reporting Manager and People Partner.
Final interview with the Head of Financial Reporting and the Financial Controller (1 hour via Zoom).
Informal meeting with the Head of Finance onsite at the Jersey office.

Why Legend?

Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from.
Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
Annual discretionary bonus to reward your efforts.
Paid annual leave PLUS a well-deserved break to recharge your batteries during the festive season! Our offices are closed between Christmas and New Year's, allowing you to enjoy downtime without dipping into your annual allowance.
Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!

Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team on [email protected], and we'll do all we can to support you.