Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Preparing financial statements for internal and external use and supporting auditing efforts
- Preparing management accounts and reports on a monthly/quarterly basis of the business (including income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements) to identify results and trends
- Managing cash flow on a monthly/quarterly by tracking transactions and regularly producing and reviewing 13-week cash flow forecasts
- Managing financial transactions by project, department or company using general ledger codes using Xero as defined by the company's Chart of Accounts
- Reconciling spending with budgets and forecasts as part of job costing
- Preparation and filing of tax returns (e.g. VAT)
- Undertaking financial administration and maintaining records to ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed, and reported on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis as required
- Maintaining records of financial transactions by establishing accounts, posting transactions and reconciling entries (double-entry bookkeeping)
- Developing systems to account for financial transactions by managing a Chart of Accounts
- Defining policies and procedures
- Maintaining the company's ledgers and preparing a trial balance
- Making journal entries for all receipts, payments, and other financial transactions
- Filing source documents for all journal entries recorded
- Posting journal entries to ledger accounts
- Preparing information for auditors
- Performing bank reconciliations to the company's bank statements
- Liason with Senior management team and Shareholders, Company investors and lenders, External consultants including property consultants, development consultants and project managers, Third party providers and suppliers for projects, HMRC , auditors and other statutory bodies
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA , CIMA, CPA)
- Ability to clearly communicate and influence commercial / financial matters to the target audience in a clear and user-friendly manner with an in-depth understanding of their challenges.
- Proven track record of preparing group consolidated management accounts and financial statements (including Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow within a property industry environment
- Demonstrable record of working with senior managers to manage cash flow on a weekly basis and producing cash flow forecasts and bank reconciliations
- Experience of managing financial transactions, administration and bookkeeping using a Chart of Accounts (including posting journal entries), managing ledgers on a weekly basis
- Experience of preparing information for year-end statutory audit
- Good working knowledge of Xero and excellent Excel skills
Reference no: 107314