Financial Accountant

The Role

As Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in supporting financial operations, ensuring accurate reporting, maintaining robust controls and contributing to the successful delivery of month-end and year-end activities.

Key Responsibilities

• General Ledger & Month-End Accounting
• Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, lease journals and other recurring or ad hoc journals.
• Support intercompany accounting activities and associated postings.
• Prepare manual credits and invoices, complete month-end balance sheet and P&L analysis.
• Maintain capital expenditure records and supporting documentation.
• Process general ledger entries through SAP and investigate posting discrepancies and exceptions.
• Support month-end close activities to ensure timely and accurate reporting.

Accounts Payable & Payments

• Prepare supplier reconciliations and purchase invoice accrual schedules.
• Review and resolve purchase order issues, blocked invoices and outstanding liabilities.
• Prepare BACS, foreign currency and other payment runs.
• Support invoice uploads and payment processing activities.
• Analyse supplier invoices for recharges and prepare intercompany invoices.
• Maintain VAT schedules and assist with purchase ledger reviews.

Accounts Receivable & Credit Control

• Produce aged debt reports and bad debt analysis.
• Prepare customer statements, cash reports and unallocated cash reconciliations.
• Proactively pursue overdue debt and support debt reduction initiatives.
• Investigate and resolve customer account queries.
• Reconcile customer accounts and support the management of sales ledgers.
• Monitor shared service centre activities and ensure outstanding actions are resolved.

Credit Risk & Customer Account Management

• Release customer orders within agreed service levels.
• Complete credit checks and support customer account set-up processes.
• Assist with credit risk assessments and decision-making.
• Respond to customer enquiries by telephone and email.
• Support debt review meetings through accurate reporting and follow-up actions.

Team Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide flexible support across Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Control functions.
• Maintain accurate audit trails and financial records.
• Support process improvement initiatives and enhancements to reporting.
• Assist the wider finance team with ad hoc projects and business-critical activities.

About You

• The successful candidate will possess:
• Part-qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or be qualified by experience.
• Strong practical experience across Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Control.
• Excellent understanding of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journals and month-end close processes.
• Previous experience using an ERP system.
• Strong Excel skills with the ability to analyse data, produce reconciliations and deliver accurate reporting.
• Excellent communication skills with a customer-focused approach.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively to deadlines.
• High levels of accuracy, organisation and attention to detail.
• A proactive approach with a willingness to support wider finance functions when required.
• Strong integrity and the ability to handle confidential information appropriately.

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to join a prestigious and well-established organisation.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Broad and varied role offering exposure across multiple finance disciplines.
• Collaborative and supportive finance team.
• Excellent opportunity to further develop your accounting experience within a respected business.