Salary Circa £75,000 depending on skills & experience
Full time / 37 hours per week / permanent
Huntingdon based
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location would be Lancaster House in Huntingdon
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We are looking for an experienced Group Senior Financial Accountant to join our team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for preparing the group consolidated annual and interim accounts, ensuring their accuracy and compliance with financial standards. You will establish and maintain efficient systems for collating and consolidating financial data from our business divisions. Additionally, you will liaise with external and internal auditors, prepare quarterly information for shareholders, and handle any ad-hoc financial requests. Your expertise will be essential in maintaining the integrity and accuracy of our financial reporting.
As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:
-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
-Personal private health care
-Annual bonus scheme
-26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
-Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
-Life Cover at 8x your salary
-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
-Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
What you’ll be doing
- Maintain and distribute year-end and half-year consolidation packs to divisions, including detailed instructions.
- Consolidate results, using Tagetik, for both year-end and half-year accounts.
- Prepare proofs and reconciliations to support the group consolidation process.
- Ensure alignment between management and statutory accounts by applying year-end and half-year adjustments and reconciling opening balances.
- Prepare presentation packs and supporting documents for the CFO’s presentation of AWG results to stakeholders.
- Liaise with external auditors and ensure a clear audit trail supports the consolidated accounts.
- Ensure accounting policies comply with the latest UK GAAP and IFRS standards.
- Stay updated with changes in accounting standards and legal requirements.
What do you need to be successful
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or similar)
- Ideally from a Practice background or has good understanding of External Audit
- Strong knowledge of International Reporting Standards (IFRS), and UK GAAP
- Experience in producing statutory accounts to high standards
- Experience of consolidating large groups and complex accounting
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong technical and accounting skills
- Ability to challenge and produce coherent technical arguments
- Strong spreadsheet and relevant PC skills
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Closing date: 6th August 2024
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