Financial Accountant - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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3 weeks ago

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Description

This London based Financial Accountant role is with an established financial services firm.

Description
The responsibilities of this London based Financial Accountant role will include:

Produce monthly management accounts for the main UK trading entity, listed UK parent company and consolidated group under IFRS, ensuring high-quality output on a timely basis
Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reporting for the business areas
Prepare the month end close for the UK entities, ensuring the general ledger is complete and accurate and the balance sheet is fully substantiated
Assist with production of group full year and interim results announcements and statutory financial statements for the consolidated group and prepare statutory accounts for the UK legal entities
Assist the Financial Reporting Manager with provision of technical accounting support across the group, including ensuring that group accounting policies are kept up to date; applied correctly and consistently across the group, and documented in the groupaccounting manual
Ensure that appropriate financial controls operate across the group to enhance the completeness and accuracy of financial statements and that these are kept uptodate in a growing business
Ensure all financial reporting and control processes, including the month end close process, are best practice and standardised across the group; identify opportunities to automate and enhance processes, workflow and systems and implement these
Assist with external audit
Assist the Financial Reporting Manager with support for strategic growth initiatives
Work closely and build strong relationships with the business, other support functions and across finance including with the FP&A team, treasury and operational finance team, tax manager and regional finance teams.

Profile

ACA qualified, ideally with 02 years post qualified experience
Ideally, financial services experience
Strong technical accounting skills and experience of preparing consolidated financial statements under IFRS
Strong attention to detail
Enthusiastic and proactive with the ability to effectively prioritise multiple tasks
Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
Excellent excel skills
VBA, SQL and Power Query experience advantageous but not necessary.
Ideally, experience of identifying and implementing process improvements, including workflow and technology enhancements.

Job Offer
Attractive salary, bonus, and benefits

In-house catering team with daily breakfast provided

Great team culture with team building every Thursday