Assistant Group Accountant - Blackpool, United Kingdom - Simpson Judge Ltd

Simpson Judge Ltd

Verified Company

Blackpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Assistant Group Accountant - 15-month FTC
Location - Blackpool - Hybrid
Salary - £45,000 DOE
Your accountabilities will include;

Deliver month end processes, including full balance sheet reconciliations, posting of central journals and maintenance of ledgers
Produce inputs to key internal reports, including derivative treasury management and input into the preparation of currency committee papers, preparation of group consolidation, fixed assets management, inventory and Board packs, ensuring they are relevant,timely and accurate.
Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of accounting matters managed by Group in order to ensure compliance and safeguard the business.
Support in identifying inefficiencies, proposing and delivering effective solutions to these to improve the performance of the finance function and continuously streamline the month end process
Maintain the group authority matrix, providing timely updates to requested changes
Work closely with the regional finance teams, supporting them as necessary and ensuring consistency of approach, sharing best practice as applicable
Support the delivery of external reporting through coordination and production of Audit Committee pack, investor presentations, half year report and annual report.
Ensuring adherence to the group defined reporting procedures and delivery to deadlines.
Support the delivery of forecast/reforecast and budget planning outputs ensuring consistency through adherence to the group defined reporting procedures.
Deliver accurate cost centre reports to functional owners, supporting them with analysis, reforecast and budget inputs to deliver their targets.
Provide a degree of challenge to ensure costs are appropriately managed and controlled, highlighting opportunities to reduce cost
Taxation support the corporation tax calculation preparation through timely delivery of information and analysis
VAT produce the monthly VAT and intrastat return

Capital

Responsible for asset addition and disposal processes and ensuring accurate communication of asset position, particularly assets under construction, with internal and external stakeholders.

Inventory

Responsible for the reconciliation or inventory and associated cost of sales, profit in stock and controlling system group standard costs and transfer pricing.

Group consolidation

Responsible for preparation of the Group consolidation and associated consolidation journal entries.

Intercompany

Responsible for group intercompany invoices, reconciliations and reporting.

Forecasting

Responsible for populating reforecasts and explaining variances against these.

We are looking for someone with previous experience in the accurate completion of month end accounting processes and the preparation of external financial reports.

Alongside having experience of delivering accurate forecast/reforecast and budget planning outputs.

You will have demonstrable effective interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to translate financial information for a non-financial audience.

You will be an experienced user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, with the confidenceto work with ERP and BI systems.