Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Preparing trial balances across all income and expenditure, assets and liabilities
- Preparing and presenting month-end results
- Reviewing monthly accounting close process including analytical review of the monthly operating results to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained
- Undertaking analytical reviews of the asset operations from a balance sheet flow perspective as well as an overall business perspective
- Preparing and reviewing journal entries required to reflect the monthly activity across multiple entities and multiple branches
- Preparing external financial statements
- Delivering year-end statutory audit in line with audit timetable
- Coordinating the preparation of all UK tax returns, including VAT, Corporation Tax
- Implementing, documenting and maintaining adequate and effective internal controls
- Supervising transactional accounting teams ensuring all bank and accounts payable controls are operating adequately and effectively
- Implementing, documenting and maintaining adequate and effective processes to improve the close and reporting cycles to ensure timely and accurate reporting
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelors and/or Master’s Degree (preferably with an emphasis in accounting) with 2:1 qualification (or higher)
- A recently qualified accountant (preferably ACA, ACCA but others considered) in past 1-2 years
- 4+ years’ experience in the accounting and finance sector
- Experience of analyzing, developing and presenting financial information
- The ability to priorities and retain perspective when faced with a number of tasks and competing demands
- Stakeholder management skills and the ability to work in a stakeholder-centric way
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong data manipulation experience and advanced Excel skills
Reference no: 102744