£75000 - £85000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- Providing guidance to the Finance function, the successful candidate will also advise on how to optimize technology, data and reporting to strengthen the efficiency of the team.
- Support ongoing releases and upgrades Finance and Operations through understanding and testing new features and validating finance related regression tests
- Support new business initiatives that impact finance systems and processes.
- Work with the business and the program team to understand the new functionality, determine how it impacts finance and advise on finance specific testing required
- Communicate upcoming systems changes to the Finance Team and work with Finance Subject Matter Experts to ensure all developments are fully tested and meet with Finance requirements before deployment
- Lead the finance continuous work stream initiatives by identifying opportunities for new features or reporting and work with the functional and development teams to define, test and deploy the new requirement
- Provide hyper care support to the finance teams following any implementation.
- Collaborate with external suppliers to complete the Accounts Payable project for stock invoices and make enhancements for non-stock invoices
- Implement robust controls and mechanisms to flag finance issues created by interface or systems failures
- Support the annual audit process by being point of contact for systems information and data requests
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fully qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with two or one years post-qualification
- Experience working in a busy finance team
- Great understanding of interfaces with other systems, data extraction, manipulation and interrogation
- Good attention to details and strong organization skills
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Reference no: 110193