Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Responsibility for the accurate and timely preparation of financial and management accounts, along with ensuring tax compliance with the preparation of tax returns.
- Working to ensure a smooth month-end, quarter-end, and year-end process.
- Assist with the year end audit process including managing an information request list and responding to queries in a timely manner to ensure a smooth and efficient audit process.
- Review and reconcile all transactions in XERO on a regular basis, with a particular focus on the working capital accounts (bank accounts, VAT account and intercompany loans).
- Assist with a wide variety of investor and business reporting .
- Prepare quarterly VAT returns.
- Prepare monthly CIS returns.
- Prepare and post journals each quarter for accruals, prepayments, deferred income and real estate agency billing to tenants (rental income and service charge).
- Drive continuous improvement of end-to-end accounting practices.
- Prepare and review quarterly cashflow reports.
- Responsible for providing accurate and timely finance information across the board.
- Prepare and review monthly drawn downs.
- Production of a monthly business performance pack
- Work with non-finance managers to drive the budgeting process.
- Responsible for providing accurate and timely finance information.
- Calculate monthly work in progress and comment on variance analysis.
- Responsibility for the reviewing of commercial performance.
- Support business planning by providing financial analysis and modelling.
- Identify and measure key success drivers.
- Providing finance and business support to commercial staff.
- Support decision making with data and insight.
- Contributing to ad hoc financial projects as required as part of the overall finance function.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fully-qualified up to three or two years PQE with hands-on accounts production (statutory and management accounts) experience
- Either a qualified accountant from a small to mid-size practice firm or a candidate with accounting experience from industry (preferably from the real estate, investment management or financial services sectors but ultimately open to sector)
- Tax compliance (VAT and corporation tax return) experience
- Good social skills communicator who can build relationships with the business and work in a social and collaborative environment
- Self-starter who is able to plan and organize their work effectively and work independently, as well as with a team
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