Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK) On-site $125k+ Posted Jul 6
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Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager at Monzo is a forward deployed financial technology role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.

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This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks. Key signals from the listing: 5+ years experience, Senior scope.

About Monzo

Fintech forward deployed roles integrate money-moving systems where correctness and compliance are non-negotiable. The role is anchored in Cardiff, London or Remote (UK), so expect on-site customer work in that region.

Signals in the listing

  • 5+ years experience
  • Senior scope

Stand out for Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager

  • Lead your application with one paragraph tying Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Monzo hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
  • Quantify team and program scale: people managed, number of concurrent customer deployments, and revenue or mission outcomes influenced.
  • Explain how you built repeatable playbooks so delivery quality did not depend on one hero engineer.
  • This role is tied to Cardiff, London or Remote (UK) — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).

Stand out at Monzo

  • Demonstrate API rigor with a concrete example — Monzo will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Demonstrate edge-case thinking with a concrete example — Monzo will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Show you understand idempotency, reconciliation, and how to debug production payment flows calmly.
  • Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on monzo.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.

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🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰£106,300 - 125,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance +

Benefits ✨

Our Financial Control team ⭐ Monzo is looking for an experienced and ambitious professional for a newly created, high impact Senior Manager - Technical Accounting Policy role. This role is designed to establish and lead our technical accounting policy function for our Group, UK and EU regulated entities. Rooted in the banking sector, the successful candidate will sit at the intersection of finance and commercial growth. You will act as the primary technical interface for the business, assessing new commercial proposals, leading technical accounting fora, and strategically triaging work across the wider finance team to utilise the existing technical capability of the team as well as lead in developing those skills further. This is a key role with real impact, working closely with the Group Financial Controller, UK and EU CFOs to deliver high-quality external reporting, and technical accounting and advisory in support of our fast-growing, tech-driven bank. We’re looking for someone with significant experience in an accounting policy, technical accounting role, ideally from a banking background. You'll thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and have a hands on, delivery focused mindset, supporting Monzo’s mission to make money work for everyone. 🔑 You’ll play a key role by... Providing expert advice on complex accounting issues (e.g., revenue recognition, leasing, financial instruments) and document conclusions in technical memos. Developing and maintaining global accounting policies, ensuring consistency across the organisation and compliance with updated standards (IFRS). Leading projects for the adoption of new accounting standards. Partnering with commercial and product teams to evaluate the accounting implications of new products, lending propositions, and complex transactions prior to launch. Managing the intake of technical queries, strategically triaging and delegating project components to utilise existing and develop the technical skills within the wider finance team. Establishing, coordinating, and chairing an internal technical accounting forum to debate, align, and secure sign-off on areas of accounting estimates and judgments, as well as new policy/standards. Acting as the dedicated technical accounting partner to the business, translating complex technical standards into actionable business advice. Leading the technical dialogue with external auditors, authoring robust accounting papers to justify and defend the Monzo’s reported positions. Building and maintaining effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, external auditors and advisors. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… Experience: Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CPA) with 5+ years of experience in accounting policy, technical accounting, or Big 4 accounting advisory. Technical Skills: Strong, hands-on knowledge of IFRS particularly in specialised areas like IFRS 9 Banking Background (preferred): Proven track record within a banking institution or a Big 4 banking/financial services advisory practice. Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrated experience in managing workloads across a team, utilising external skill sets rather than working in a silo. Stakeholder Management: Ability to facilitate technical debate and drive alignment among senior leaders and cross-functional teams. Communication: Strong capability to communicate technical standards into clear, professional, and practical guidance for non-finance stakeholders. Resource Optimisation: Sharp prioritisation and organisational skills to effectively triage proposals and maximize the existing capabilities of the wider team, while also developing those skills further. Adaptability and resilience: Demonstrable ability to be resilient and flexible in a fast-paced, tech-led, and agile environment. 🙌 What’s in it for you 💰 £106,300 - £125,000 ➕Incentive Awards tied to your performance. 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits. 🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps Phone call with the Recruiter (30 mins) Initial Video interview with Hiring Manager (30 mins)

Role specific interview with Financial Control team (60 mins)

Behavioural interview with wider Finance members (45 mins) This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

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Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

What is the Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager role at Monzo?
This is a forward deployed engineering position at Monzo based in Cardiff, London or Remote (UK). Forward deployed engineers work directly with customers to deploy and integrate software on-site.
Where is this Monzo role located?
This Technical Accounting Policy Senior Manager position is in Cardiff, London or Remote (UK). Use the apply link above to confirm location details and hybrid/remote options on the company's careers page.
What is the compensation for this role?
Listed compensation: $125k+. Verify the latest salary range on the company's careers page before applying.
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