£55000 - £60000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent
Job Description
You will be involved in day-to-day running of the global entity accounts and ensuring compliance with IFRS and local GAAP requirements. This is a broad role with a mix of traditional reporting responsibilities, tax and assisting with projects to build the finance infrastructure for the next phase of its growth plans.
Key accountabilities include:
- Preparing month-end reporting activities including balance sheet reconciliation and analysis
- Assisting with the preparation of year-end account, activities and statutory accounts including global tax and AFS/IFRS preparation
- Assisting the Financial Controller with the yearend audit process and relationship with external auditors.
- Designing, implementing and maintaining financial global controls and risk environment by ensuring policies and procedures are being compliant across the company.
- Management of the accounting system, Chart of Accounts and cost Centre structure
- Assisting on ad-hoc financial projects plus involvement of group projects to manage financial impact of group-wide projects.
- Managing the headcount and bonus calculations for financial reporting
- Assisting the Financial Controller on the management of global tax and transfer pricing
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
We are looking for talented individuals who thrive in a very busy environment. Highly analytically minded with a good attention to detail.
It is Essential you have the following:
- Be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA) with recent and relevant PQE experience
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge (IFRS, FRS101 FRS102, UKGAAP, VAT / TAX)
- Experience of ensuring financial control (Process, People, System) and helping the company drive its performance targets
- Demonstrate success in delivering accurate and timely outputs
- Experience working in multi-country and currency environment
- Proven track record of working with group and stand-alone companies as well as control environments
- Strong excel skills including pivots and formulas to enable manipulation of data
- Previous experience in IFRS conversion, system change projects, M&A activity is an advance.
- Previous industry experience, Pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, life science is preferred but not a prerequisite
Reference no: 103266