£50000 - £60000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Legal entity financial accounting including maintaining ledgers, resolving queries and ensure all postings and data entries are correct.
- Manage the execution of the financial close process through various monthly/quarterly financial and management accounting processes, including but not limited to
- Processing of periodic journals including all journals for certain group companies
- Ownership and production of the quarterly management accounts, balance sheet and income statements for certain group companies including commissions, recharges and management accounts.
- Providing support function, ensuring they meet deadlines and are fulfilling all month end and processing deadlines.
- Assisting in the month end close and revaluation process.
- Meeting all Month End/Year End deliverables according to set timelines
- Managing the intercompany process for designated group companies, ensuring clearance by month end deadlines.
- Managing the prepayment and accruals process.
- Delivering papers for Board and Committee meetings as required.
- Ensuring cross training on all major month end tasks.
- Ensuring completeness of balance sheet reconciliations.
- Maintaining appropriate documentation of relevant accounting processes.
- Act as key point of contact for internal and external auditors in respect of relevant legal entities, as well as supporting the fulfilment of audit deliverables for the Group more widely.
- Performing ad hoc accounting and reporting tasks as required- supporting the Senior Manager- Finance Operations with any required tasks assigned.
- Providing account coding advise to other areas of Finance
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience within financial operations, including accounts payable and expense management, with a sound understanding of Finance systems (including treasury, expenses and general ledger systems).
- Experience within the commercial insurance sector is preferred
- Excellent working knowledge of financial accounting and associated processes
- Experience with multi-currency reporting
- Track record of process improvement and delivery
- Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA
- Business partnering experience with strong communication and presentational skills
- Excellent numeric and analytical skills and good attention to detail
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office, and the ability to learn new systems.
- Strong team player with credibility to liaise with senior management
- Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Ability to train others
- Effective prioritization and organizational skills
Reference no: 102566