Financial Accountant

Summary: The Financial Accountant role based in Birmingham involves leading accounting functions for specific companies, including ledger entries and financial statement preparation. The position requires collaboration with various departments and external audits while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and tax regulations. The role also emphasizes continuous improvement and the development of strong business relationships to enhance financial reporting accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the accounting for certain companies including monthly and quarterly ledger entries and interactions with Controlling, Treasury, UFS and CoCC.
• Lead on certain areas of the financial statements.
• Act as subject matter lead on certain processes and topics.
• Represent the ABP in appropriate forums.
• Drive continuous improvement in own areas.
• Be responsible for the accounting for certain Uniper operational sites and businesses.
• Prepare balance sheet and account reconciliations for certain companies and certain balance sheet items.
• Develop strong working relationships to ensure that there is knowledge of the business and its expected developments with a view to converting this into the consequent impact on financial statements and to validate the accuracy of the statements.
• Preparation of any supplemental information required on a monthly and quarterly basis for the Centre of Competence for Consolidation.
• Ensure that information provided by the businesses is validated and challenged prior to being processed by UFS.
• Prepare statutory accounts for businesses where responsibility lies.
• Ensure that the group reporting packages are technically correct and in accordance with the Uniper accounting manual and International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Ensure that the accounting ledgers are compliant with UK tax requirements (Corporation tax, VAT, PAYE etc).
• Liaise with external audit to fully support audits.

Key Skills:

• Strong IT skills and IT literate, with Excel.
• Fully/partly qualified ACCA, AAT, CIMA.
• Audit experience.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other