Summary: The Senior Financial Accountant role involves managing financial reporting and compliance on an 18-month fixed-term contract in High Wycombe. The position requires a technically strong accountant with expertise in auditing, statutory reporting, and tax, while also providing significant exposure to senior stakeholders. The role offers hybrid working arrangements, requiring two days a week in the office. The successful candidate will coordinate audit deliverables and ensure compliance with accounting standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technically strong accountant with up to date knowledge of auditing and statutory reporting (including consolidations) and tax
• Work in conjunction with FC External Compliance & Reporting and Group Financial Reporting Accountant to provide clear, accurate and timely financial reporting, ensuring external financial reporting compliance
• Produce accurate financial accounts in accordance with current regulatory and professional standards (IFRS / FRS 101)
• Become key contact for coordinating audit deliverables.
• Ensure that accounting implications of key contracts are understood and impact of changes to accounting standards
• To perform and aid preparation of the pension scheme accounts
• Process improvement for general ledger entries.
• Controlling and reviewing specific general ledger areas
• Compliance responsibilities, including audit, SOX, and external reporting.
• Undertaking a cross regional approach to drive consistency and best practice within the regional offices

Key Skills:

• Qualified ACCA, CIMA, ACCA
• Experience within a finance department.
• Previous experience working to tight deadline year-end audits for both group and statutory reporting

Salary (Rate): 65000

City: High Wycombe

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Finance