Full job descriptionOur client is a growing £80m turnover business who are enjoying a period of transformation and growth. They seek to hire a Senior Financial Accountant to join their team of 10 and take full ownership of the month and year end. The role will suit a technically strong ACA/ACCA looking for a role with autonomy and the opportunity to mentor juniors within the team.
Responsibilities:
Financial reporting and period-end close
*Plan, organise and manage own workload to ensure the company’s monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting processes are achieved in a timely, accurate manner in accordance with internal controls, company policy and applicable regulatory requirements, including but not limited to:
*Take ownership of accurate and timely month-end and year-end close activities within the role, ensuring deadlines are met and issues are identified, proactively resolved and where relevant escalated
*Prepare and review journals, accruals, prepayments and other month-end adjustments, ensuring transactions are complete, accurate and appropriately supported
*Perform detailed profit and loss review, proactively investigate variances and unusual items, and take ownership of follow-up actions to ensure issues are understood and resolved
*Prepare reporting schedules, notes and supporting analysis required for group submissions and internal review
*Prepare/review royalty accruals and invoices
*Provide clear, accurate commentary to support internal and external financial reporting, including variance analysis
*Act as the primary point of accountability for month-end quality and completeness
Balance sheet control and reconciliations
*Maintain robust balance sheet control through timely preparation and review of reconciliations, ensuring all balances are fully supported and exceptions are resolved
*Manage intercompany reconciliations across profit and loss and balance sheet accounts, following up differences and ensuring timely resolution
*Support foreign exchange revaluation, fixed asset accounting and related control processes, including setting up internal orders where required
Inventory, costing and operational finance support
*Take ownership of key inventory accounting activities, by preparing/reviewing stock valuation, stock provisioning, stock reporting, adjustments and related analysis
Group reporting, quarterly processes and management information
*Prepare and support quarterly reporting requirements, including hard close activities, intercompany performance fees and other periodic submissions
*Lead on allocation, assessment and profitability reporting cycles, ensuring outputs are completed accurately and in line with agreed timetables
*Prepare management information, dashboard commentary and other analysis to support finance review and decision-making
Statutory, tax and compliance support
*Prepare/review statutory returns and disclosures, including VAT, VPAG, ONS, PSA returns and other regulatory or government reporting requirements relevant to the role
*Prepare robust schedules, reconciliations and supporting information for statutory accounts, tax reporting and other compliance-related submissions
Audit and continuous improvement
*Support leading the audit process and provide timely, accurate and well-supported information to internal and external auditors and respond to queries within agreed deadlines
*Actively contribute to process improvement initiatives
*Identify inefficiencies and propose practical solutions to improve team capacity and output quality
A salary of £65000 is on offer plus 10% bonus and benefits