Interim Financial Accountant

Summary: The Financial Accountant role at Marks Sattin involves providing comprehensive accounting support for a 3-month fixed-term contract. The position requires delivering accurate financial reports, managing balance sheet controls, and ensuring compliance with audit requirements. The successful candidate will also be responsible for process improvements and collaboration with internal stakeholders. This hybrid role is based in Leeds and seeks an individual with significant accounting experience and strong analytical skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Finance Manager, the primary purpose of the role is to provide accounting support across a range of responsibilities, delivering accurate accounting reports in a timely and reliable manner.
• Take ownership for aspects of management reporting and balance sheet controls, taking 'end to end' responsibility for certain quarterly/Year end activities.
• Creating process improvements, suggesting changes to enhance the control environment and improve decision making insight.
• Provision of reliable quarterly management accounts for the UK group and the Belgian branch.
• Compilation of annual TB and financial statements for the UK group and the Belgian branch, ready for both Finance Manager's review and subsequent external audit, ensuring accuracy and complete analysis.
• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts for the UK group and other EMEA offices, as well as other key accounts including distributions and payroll costs.
• Preparation of quarterly UK VAT returns and the associated "net-down" journal.
• Assistance with provision of data to external statutory auditors in UK during the audit.
• Preparation and delivery of various regular reports to internal stakeholders.
• Preparation/input of various monthly journals for month-end routine.
• Calculation and billing of certain shared overhead costs to fellow group entities.
• Co-authorisation within banking portals of office and client payments, with the latter in compliance with SAR.

Key Skills:

• Clear and concise communications skills, both verbal and written.
• Significant experience in similar accounting roles.
• Solid, demonstrable skill in the technical aspects of accounting procedure.
• Ambitious / Pro-active - delivers the expected result and offers suggestions for improvement.
• Strong team player, able to build strong relationships with team members and business stakeholders; Sense of fun, energy and team building.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Highly computer literate; competent in using excel and complex accounting systems; capacity to learn other applications.

Salary (Rate): £230 daily

City: Leeds

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance