The Role
Key responsibilities will include:
Working closely with the Senior Financial Accountant across the financial accounting function.
Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations.
Investigating and resolving historic and legacy accounting issues.
Supporting month-end and year-end financial accounting activities.
Supporting the year-end audit, including preparing schedules and responding to auditor queries.
Supporting lease accounting and associated reconciliations.
Identifying and resolving discrepancies across the balance sheet.
Reviewing existing accounting processes and helping improve controls and ways of working.
Improving the accuracy, quality and integrity of financial information.
Taking ownership of accounting issues and ensuring they are followed through to resolution.
Supporting the wider finance team with ad hoc financial accounting projects.
The Candidate
The business is flexible on qualification status and will consider Qualified, Part-Qualified and Qualified by Experience (QBE) candidates.
You will ideally have:
Strong hands-on financial accounting experience.
Experience preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations.
Previous exposure to year-end audit and working with external auditors.
Experience with lease accounting.
Experience investigating and resolving historic accounting issues.
A good understanding of financial controls and accounting processes.
Strong Excel skills.
Excellent attention to detail.
A proactive and solutions-focused approach.
The confidence to identify issues, investigate them and take ownership through to resolution.
The ability to work closely with senior members of the finance team while managing your own workload.
Experience joining a finance function where there has been legacy work, process improvement or accounting clean-up required would be particularly beneficial.
Package & Benefits
For candidates joining the client directly:
£50,000-£60,000 salary
12-month fixed-term contract
Hybrid working - 3 days in the office / 2 days from home
Flexible working hours, with core office hours between 10:00am and 4:00pm
22 days' annual leave, increasing to 25 days with length of service, plus bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Complimentary services
Generous employee discount on products
Alternatively, candidates can be engaged on a day-rate equivalent through an umbrella company for the 12-month assignment.