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Are you comfortable working hands-on across the detail of the close and reporting cycle, while actively looking for opportunities to innovate and scale through the use of tools and technology? This role is for someone who wants to build deep technical accounting expertise and is motivated to challenge existing processes and help implement better ways of working.\nIn a fast-paced and performance-driven environment like Optiver, we value people who take ownership, think critically, and raise the bar. If you take a hands-on, solution-oriented approach to developing your accounting judgement, this role will suit you.\nWhat you'll do \nThe Finance team provides reliable and timely management information that lays the foundation to drive business decisions at Optiver. Our finance professionals work across accounting, financial control, reporting and finance operations, with close collaboration across the wider business. In this role, you will be responsible for executing core accounting, financial reporting, and process improvement, with an explicit expectation to identify and help implement improvements through tooling, data, and AI-enabled workflows.\nYou will work on:\nMonth-End close and reporting\nOwn your allocated areas of the monthly close for multiple entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, while continually looking for opportunities to automate.\nTranslate business transactions and positions, including trading positions, capex, opex, and intercompany transactions into IFRS-compliant financial reporting\nDesign, build and operate the workflows that deliver this repeatably, driven by IFRS and policy-based configuration and data inputs rather than by manual preparation\nPrepare and enhance management reporting for your areas and turn the output into clear insight, explaining balance sheet and P&L movements and the drivers behind them\nPrepare statutory financial statements and audit deliverables, liaising with external auditors as required\nSupporting a strong control environment\nBuild controls into the workflows you design rather than adding them afterwards, and support the documentation, testing and ongoing improvement of controls over financial reporting\nChallenge existing workflows using the tools available, including data platforms, automation and AI agents. Where a step can be automated or handed to an agent, make the case and build it\nSet a high standard for the quality and consistency of your own work, and review the work of more junior colleagues as you develop\nTechnical ownership and projects\nTake end-to-end ownership of allocated technical accounting topics, from accounting treatment through to process design and execution, with guidance from senior team members\nContribute to operational and strategic projects, including finance automation initiatives, and take ownership of defined workstreams within them\nWho you are\nQualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/RA preferred) with at least 1-2 years of post-qualification experience in corporate accounting\nA bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in finance or accounting\nSolid technical foundation in accounting and financial reporting (IFRS), with a clear focus on accuracy, control and quality\nGenuine interest, and ideally some practical experience, in using tools, data, and AI-assisted workflows to improve process and innovate how work is executed\nDemonstrate an ownership mindset - you take responsibility for your areas end-to-end and see them through to completion\nHighly motivated and detail-oriented, able to handle multiple priorities in a complex finance environment\nEffective communicator with stakeholders and other departments such as Tax and Mid-Office\nFinancial services experience is advantageous\nWho we are\nAt Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.\nWhat you'll get\nYou’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.\nIn addition, you’ll receive:\nA performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.\nThe opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.\n25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.\nTraining opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.\nExtensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.\nTraining and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.\nHow to apply\nApply directly via the form below. 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