Job Description

You  will ensure that company consistently complies with all relevant statutory and regulatory financial requirements, including preparing the statutory accounts under FRS102, coordinating the audit of those accounts, ensuring company implements an appropriate VAT and corporation tax structure and meets reporting requirements of that structure, and supporting the triennial and annual pension scheme valuations. You will manage the financial processing team - accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll – to deliver efficient, timely and accurate core financial processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the year end audit process (March yearend), preparing the year-end consolidated financial statements and coordinating the external audit
• Responsible for delivering a clean balance sheet, through a periodic reconciliation process – coordinating the completion of reconciliations across the finance team, reviewing the reconciliations, and driving continual improvement
• Senior point of contact for financial accounting and tax queries, in particular defining the appropriate treatment for new activity
• Responsible for compliance with HMRC requirements, in particular VAT, through periodic returns and review of VAT case law and rules re recoverability.
• Work alongside the external tax advisor to ensure corporation tax is correctly calculated and tax returns submitted.
• New or changing accounting standards relevant to company, for understanding the impact of those changes, and for communicating and implementing the new policies and processes.
• Drive continual review and improvement of finance processes, internal controls and wider control environment.
• Support the CFO and Head of Finance in the presentation of regulatory and statutory financial information to senior management and committees.
• Lead the management of RSSB’s cash and investments.
• Pensions – responsible for coordinating the year-end actuarial valuation (including challenging assumptions) and supporting the CFO and Head of Finance in communicating the impact of the future triennial valuation, both on the business and to the individual scheme members.
• Accountable for the management accounting of company subsidiary including dealing with queries from Service Provider (SERCO) and the R2 asset division, including oversight on levy calculations, invoicing, forecasting and costs
• Manage a team to deliver the accounts payable and receivables function. Ensure sales are invoiced in an accurate and timely manner, debts are recovered, supplier invoices are paid, and all transactions are recorded accurately.
• Manage the payroll administrator, to ensure payroll is processed and paid in an accurate and timely manner.
• Maintain an awareness of changes to the payroll and income tax landscape, and ensure relevant changes are implemented.
• Engage with the wider business – through written reports and face to face meetings, potentially at senior level – to deliver financial information, and champion financial controls and processes.
• Manage the performance and development of the team, through coaching mentoring, and agreeing individual development plans.
• Drive excellent internal and external customer service behaviors, from across the team.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Fully qualified financial accountant (ACA/ACCA preferable)
• Experience of working as an auditor, to at least Senior level, in an audit firm
• Experience of coordinating a year end and audit from the business point of view
• Knowledge of, and experience in applying, FRS102
• Experience of managing VAT and corporation tax from the business point of view
• Knowledge of control environments and internal controls frameworks
• The experience and awareness to identify opportunities to improve business processes, and the confidence and determination to deliver changes
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to deliver complex financial principles or information in a style appropriate to the audience
• Ability to build effective working relationships, and gain engagement and support, with non-financial stakeholders
• Direct experience of using finance ERP systems - Microsoft Business Central