Financial Accountant

Global Gaming and Technology Organisations seeks a Financial Accountant to join their business on a 6-month temporary assignment. The Financial Accountant would be a hands-on individual to provide additional capacity across accounting, analysis and month end activities.

The Financial Accountant will work closely with the Financial Controller, working on detailed analysis and investigative work required to understand and resolve accounting issues.

Responsibilities of the Financial Accountant include:

• Support month-end close and financial analysis.
• Prepare and analyse balance sheet reconciliations.
• Extract and interrogate GL data to identify unusual movements or transactions.
• Perform account analysis and investigate reconciling items.
• Support journal preparation and analysis.
• Build supporting schedules and working papers.
• Analyse current and prior-period movements and help explain variances.
• Trace balances and transactions back to supporting documentation.
• Help maintain a structured issue/remediation tracker.
• Follow up outstanding items with Finance and other stakeholders.
• Support the senior contractor with deeper dives into specific accounting issues.
• Document findings and create clear supporting analysis.
• Help improve the quality and consistency of recurring month-end files and reconciliations.

Requirements for the Financial Accountant include:

• Part-qualified or newly qualified ACCA / ACA / CIMA.
• Financial accounting / management accounting background.
• Strong Excel skills and comfortable working with large GL extracts.
• Good understanding of journals, accruals, reconciliations and balance sheets.
• Naturally analytical and comfortable investigating discrepancies.
• D365 or another major ERP useful.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with imperfect information.

Hybrid Working