Senior Financial Accountant
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Location
Reading, Berkshire
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£55000.00 - £65000.00 per annum + bonus
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Contact:
Rob Anderson
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Contact email:
robanderson@workwithglee.com
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Job ref:
BBBH21796_1606476108
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Published:
about 2 months ago
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Expiry date:
2020-12-27
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Consultant:
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Senior Financial Accountant
Reporting to the Financial Controller of this acquisitive and innovative client based in Reading.
You will ensure that group and statutory reporting requirements are met in a timely and robust manner. Manage the implementation and reporting of newly acquired product.
Monthly Reporting Process: Plan, organise and manage own workload to ensure the companies monthly financial reporting processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner, including but not limited to:
- Managing implementation of newly acquired product, working with Financial Controller (FC) to integrate new markets and processes into reporting.
- Preparation of stock valuation, and necessary stock provisions, ensuring early identification of stock risks
- Monitoring of goods received not invoiced account ensuring timely reconciliation
- Preparation of Accruals and Prepayments
- Maintenance of fixed asset and intangible asset register
- Reconciliation of Intercompany balances
- Processing of timesheets for required departments
- Participate strongly in financial reviews, challenging and providing commentary on significant transactions and variances
- Preparation of group submissions, including management notes, annotation and analysis
- Preparation of robust balance sheet reconciliations ensuring that all carrying balances are adequately supported
- Preparation of Actual and forecast cash flow submissions
- Preparation of Functional Reporting Commentary for Actuals and submission to Head Office
- Updating of BI tool to enable review of Actuals
Statutory Returns
Assist the finance team in ensuring statutory reporting obligations are correctly recorded, reconciled, authorised and submitted in a timely manner:
- Preparation of VAT returns, EC Sales list and intrastat returns
- Preparation of National Statistical Office returns
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual PPRS returns
- Assist in the preparation of Corporation Tax returns
- Assist in the preparation P11d and PSA returns
- Assist in the preparation of Statutory Accounts Business Partnering
- Working closely with budget holders and Commercial Finance to ensure accuracy of financial information and fair and robust forecasts and budgets for specific area of P&L:
- Conducting regular meetings with cost centre owners, to review financial transactions, to ensure understanding and accountability for figures
Requirements:
- Experience of working consistently to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining high level of accuracy
- Challenging and analytical in nature, confident to challenge until underlying reasons are identified
- Ability to work as a team and as an individual
- Able to provide meaningful analysis of data using Excel, able to utilise pivot tables and macros where appropriate
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA etc.)
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