Financial Reporting Accountant - Reading, United Kingdom - Orka Financial

Orka Financial
Orka Financial
Verified Company
Reading, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Our client is a continually growing and acquisitive business who seek to hire a Financial Reporting Accountant.

The role will support the Financial Accounting Manager in developing and improving the reporting to provide enhanced and timely MI for Overheadsincluding, month end reporting support for staff cost and expenses reporting.

The role will also support in reporting, coordination and consolidations for Actual, Flash & Budget/Forecast processes.


Responsibilities:


Consolidation and Reporting of Overheads (Actual, Flash & Plan):

  • Manage the roll forward & update of templates, ensuring report connections to systems are working properly where relevant and establishing new templates as required.
  • OH summary
  • OH walk
  • Staff costs reconciliation (as detailed above)
  • Managing the consolidation of Overhead Actual / Flash / Budget/Forecast results to support reviews with the Group Financial Controller, including:
  • Budget/Forecast planning of templates and timelines
  • Coordinating finance team completion and submission of templates as required
  • Ensuring consolidated commentaries are completed and provide sufficient insight

Payroll control:


  • Post the payroll journals for the UK and Ireland business as per the payroll schedules
  • Post the bonus accrual for the UK business and prepare reconciliation on Blackline
  • Ensure payroll P&L codes tie back to payroll reporting no postings should be made to these codes to support audit trail & queries on payroll
  • Prepare the UK payroll and pension control account reconciliations monthly in the Blackline system:
  • Report and track queries to minimise aged variances
  • Flag risk appropriately where processes are not working / need enhancing for robust reporting
  • Support the Payroll team in establishing processes as and when required
  • Ensure HMRC portal liabilities match company ledgers. If the amounts do not match, flag to Head of Pay & Benefits and Financial Accounting Manager and work with them to ensure differences are resolved.
  • Maintain clear procedure notes to ensure business continuity and support audit queries
  • Take ownership for all payroll control related audit queries

Staff cost and expenses reporting:


  • Ownership for preparing and developing enhanced Overheads staff cost and expense reporting
  • Prepare and keep updated through the close the Staff costs reconciliation file which provides BVA analysis at an employee level
  • Work with Systems teams to develop improved expenses reporting based on business needs
  • Work towards enhanced and more automation of staff cost and expenses reporting, implementing necessary process changes in the business to achieve this

Reporting improvements:


  • Work with Senior Management Accountants and their teams to develop reporting & standardized templates to drive enhancements and efficiencies in the close process for OH
  • PO reporting establish & distribute reporting to support the Management Accounts team in tracking & maintaining Pos with their business partners
  • Template standardisation support the development of a standard set of templates to be used to review departmental month end and provide enhanced reporting to Business Partners
A salary of £45,000-£50,000 is on offer plus bonus and benefits
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