£ 60000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Identify and scope potential new technology investments that drive the continuous improvement agenda across the team.
- Undertake feasibility assessments for new technology investments, crystallizing the benefits proposition and pitching proposals to the financial controller for approval.
- Lead process improvement reviews to identify areas of waste, duplication, and manual intervention; devise ways of addressing issues identified to embed high performance.
- Assist the Finance department in automating the manual tasks by utilising appropriate tools and technologies.
- Designing and implementing internal controls to provide quality assurance over financial data.
- Assist the Finance department in identifying inefficiencies, duplication, and waste.
- Providing training to Finance team and non-finance staff and budget holders to perform their role effectively utilising available finance systems and other technology and tools.
- Supporting the Financial Services team to deliver a variety of projects, including but not limited to, systems, internal controls, taxation, and financial management.
- Provide ad hoc analysis and insights on specific issues.
- Collaborating with IT and financial staff to meet business requirements.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- A Part-qualified Accountant (CCAB or CIMA or foreign equivalent)
- Highly IT literate including experience and knowledge of finance systems, Excel advanced user and ability to use business and develop business analysis and intelligence tools.
- Proven financial systems operation and development experience at a day-to-day and strategic level, including managing systems change in a large and complex organization.
- Proven experience in financial accounting and reporting including the preparation of financial statements, with the ability to demonstrate a good understanding of the outputs from financial systems to meet accounting and audit requirements.
- Line management or team management experience
- Finance system enhancement or implementation experience
- Experience working in project environments and as a manager.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and train other finance staff.
Reference no: 108390