Financial Reporting Accountant - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

The Financial Reporting Accountant will assist in producing financial reporting for the UK legal entities, prepare the group consolidation under IFRS and ensure a robust, timely and collaborative close process across the global finance function.

Search criteria:

Either currently working for a Big 4 firm (ideally for the Banking and Capital Markets practice or Financial Services practice but our client is also open to nonfinancial services profiles and experience) or within industry in a similar financial reportingrole
Ability and willingness to work as a handson accountant with regards to management accounting, IFRS, core monthend process, finance process improvement experience
Excellent communication and stakeholder management experience

Summary of main tasks and responsibilities:

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.

Additional information re:

the Person Specification:

ACA qualified, ideally with 0-2 years post qualified experience (but will also consider those up to 3-4 years PQE)
Ideally, financial services experience (but also open to nonfinancial services profiles)
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.