Job Description

This role will see you working closely with the Financial Controller to support the finance function and bring efficiency to financial analysis, month end and reporting processes.

1. Transactional:

• Calculating, preparing, maintaining and posting journals including payroll/expenses journals
• Maintaining fixed assets registers

• Maintaining accruals and prepayments

• Calculating, maintaining and posting rebates for customers

• Re-code/reanalyze postings to relevant cost Centre’s

• Processing of bank payments and scrutiny of BACS runs

2. Reconciliations:

• Daily Bank/Cash book reconciliation

• Monthly A/R & A/P reconciliation

• Monthly Petty Cash Reconciliations

• Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations

3. Reporting:

• Daily reporting of KPIs (Internal)
• Weekly/Monthly reporting of customer sales (External)

• Monthly reporting of financial information, reconciliations and summaries

• Other ad-hoc reporting from time-to-time

4. Month end Routines:

• Carrying out revaluation of foreign currency

• Running of month end processes/routines on sage

• Preparation of account packs and variance analysis

5. Taxes & Compliance:

• Preparing and submitting Quarterly VAT returns

• Preparing and submitting Monthly EC sales List/Intra stats

• Completing HMRC submissions and surveys

• Processing and submitting Supplementary declarations

6. Other Contact:

• Business partnering with other departments to supply financial information
• Liaise with credit controllers A/R & A/P to ensure smooth operations

• Liaise with third parties i.e. auditors, banks and services providers etc.

7. Housekeeping:

• Maintain data both hard copies and soft copies in line with the process /policy requirements

• Maintain data for both internal and external audits

• Vouch transaction authorization as per DOA and challenge Non-conformance

• Audit system related changes and produce explanations

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Contributory pension scheme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Part qualified ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc. 2. Experience of ERP systems (preferably Sage 1000 ERP) 3. Advanced user of Microsoft Excel with hands on data analysis skills 4. Effective communicator at all levels both internally and externally 5. A self-motivated team player with attention to detail 6. Technically strong with some experience of supervising staff