£65000 - £70000 Per year
Accountant
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- Produce the Monthly Pack in a timely manner ( Balance Sheet, Cash flow and other supporting schedules such as margin reports).
- Assist senior management in producing Budgets and Forecasts.
- Variance Analysis and commentary.
- Adhoc analysis around margin, customer and product line. Development of KPI reporting packs.
- Prepare monthly accruals, prepayments and other journals as required.
- Monthly reconciliation of Balance sheet accounts across all entities and follow up on any differences, e.g. Deferred Revenue, Trade Debtors, Trade Creditors, Cost of Sale accruals and prepayments, Risks and Opportunities monitoring.
- Review and reconciliation of the Business Information Tool.
- Adhere to strict reporting deadlines, e.g. Monthly close, Board Pack, Weekly forecast, Year-end and other reporting deadlines.
- Review all entries going through accountancy system.
- Make correction where costs have been incorrectly posted. Correcting of posting errors.
- Assist with fault finding and system development as required, to ensure the accountancy system functions move efficiently and effectively.
- Maintenance of General Ledger systems, e.g. open close accounting periods, maintenance of account codes, Exchange rate.
- Ensure all Finance processes are documented to enable sharing of knowledge and enable other members of the team to support each other.
- Ensure statutory and audit requirements are met and schedules for auditors are prepared.
- Responsible for Group consolidation model in support of statutory reporting.
- Ad hoc tasks, queries and projects as and when required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Strong business partnering skills with the ability to support non-finance operational and commercial staff
- Good technical accounting skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ambitious and driven to take on extra responsibility
Reference no: 110240