Senior Accountant
Contract - Inside IR35
Leeds- onsite (5 days a week)
Rate - 400- 460 per day
RESPONSIBILITIES
Delivery
- Reconciliation, review and approval of RTR balances and manual journal adjustments.
- Preparation and review of RTR reports for internal and external reporting
- Responsibility for assigned functional areas end to end processes and reporting including any direct reports
- Key contact for Group Finance & External Auditors
- Responsibility for managing stakeholder relationships, issue resolution and working collaboratively with all.
- Responding for a significant number of adhoc queries, and analysis as required, prioritising work effectively to ensure that these queries are responded to on a timely basis.
- Line Manager providing support and review of work for direct reports, providing regular feedback
- Ensure compliance with the Group Policies, including operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting.
- Role may require work on some weekends/public holidays during half year and year end periods.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Qualifications & Experience
- Studying towards or qualified with professional accounting qualification i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar.
- Must be able to fully grasp the broader issues and provide functional guidance to those reporting to them, rather than rely on their own technical skill set. Requires good understanding of IT systems and processes.
- SAP training and certification is a plus.
- +3 years of relevant accounting experience.
- Experience in application of IFRS and UK GAAP is required.
- Retail or FMCG industry experience preferred.
- Experience of BPC an advantage.
- Accounting role within a large, listed, multinational company is a plus.
- Worked within a multicurrency environment; understanding the impact of movements in exchange rates on reported results is a plus.
- Experience working in an accounting team in a Shared Service environment is a plus.
- Can provide evidence of working collaboratively with peers.
- Advanced Excel skills with experience of building and working with complex models and large data sets
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