The Senior Financial Accountant will manage the statutory reporting for both P& L and balance sheet, with a view to report accurate and timely information.

Client Details

My client is a FTSE 100 business services company headquartered in London.

Description

• Working with the finance team and wider business to manage and communicate the deadlines and processes required for the month end reporting.

• Ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled in a timely manner, including goods received system accruals.

• Manage the project and capex accounting in SAP.

• Agree the intercompany transactions and ensure these are reflected in the correct place along with preparing accruals, prepayments and other journals as required.

• Prepare the statutory income statement and statement of financial position each month for the board pack with relevant commentary.

• Support the control environment and suggest improvements to processes and controls where possible.

• Review and update formal process documents (such as the delegation of authority document and ensure the system is updated to match);

• Assist with the interim and year end audit and be the main point of contact on testing enquiries;

• Support preparation of accounting papers for presentation at the Audit Committee

• Prepare notes to the accounts for the Annual Report and Accounts;

• Support with planned SAP HANA upgrade.

Profile

• Qualified accountant (ACA preferably with first time passes)

• Strong Excel knowledge

• Experience of both balance sheet and P&L reporting, ideally exposure to a full set of accounts

• Strong communicator with the ability to adapt communication style for finance or non-finance individuals

• Pro-active and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment

Desirable

• Experience of working with a shared service centre (accounts payable)

• Experience of working with large data sets

• Big 4 trained

• Previous use of SAP accounting software

Job Offer

A highly competitive package is on offer