Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Take responsibility for central costs within the month end process in line with the reporting timetable.
- Cross-function liaison to gather all relevant information.
- Hold regular meetings with budget holders to seek initiatives and highlight any potential risk.
- Take ownership over the accuracy and completeness of accruals and prepayments.
- Drive a strong procurement process, including raising and reviewing purchase orders, providing coding guidance and supporting team and Procurement Manager on an ad hoc basis.
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to accruals and prepayments.
- Maintain a strong link with the Financial Planning and Analysis team to support management reporting and budget process.
- Be the key contact for external auditors/tax advisors, responding to queries and providing supporting schedules where necessary.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Part qualified ACCA or ACA qualification.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and enjoys building strong relationships at all levels of the business.
- Excellent Excel skills including pivot tables and analysis formula.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Ability to use own initiative, organize and priorities own workload to deliver to tight deadlines.
- Proactive, flexible, and easily able to adapt to change.
- Experience of month end close process (journal posting, balance sheet reconciliations).
- Use of accounting applications for posting journals, reporting, data validation.
Reference no: 108968