Senior Financial Accountant - Leeds, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Responsibilities:

Manage a broad range of operational accounting activities, enabling delivery of robust financial results working in conjunction with Financial Control
Manage and drive the refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency and control across accounting and balance sheet substantiation activities
Support key stakeholders through the delivery of meaningful variance and trend analysis while working in conjunction with our Financial Control and Business Partnering teams
Oversight of and mentor staff involved in preparation and posting of general ledger journal entries
Represent Finance Operations and input into projects / change programmes, impacting accounting activities, as necessary
Maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including our auditors, to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations
Lead colleagues, in a matrix fashion, working on accounting activities, at our offshore shared services centre
Work with Senior Finance Managers to set the tone and create a culture of continuous improvement within accounting activities in Finance Operations

Requirements:

In order to thrive in the role of a Senior Financial Accountant, we would expect you to have working experience in most of the following areas:

Be a qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or have relevant years of working experience
Have excellent knowledge of relevant accounting software and tools such as Oracle Fusion and Hyperion Financial Management
Have a strong understanding of key accounting control and risk management protocols such as SOX
Can demonstrate experience of leading structured process improvement activity in an accounting environment
Be confident building controls into processes

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.