Financial Accountant
Salary: £50k - £55k
Epsom
Hours: 9am - 5.30pm
Main function of job:
- Developing first class internal and external financial reporting, in line with changes to financial reporting frameworks to meet our shareholder and other stakeholders needs.
- Producing timely and accurate interim and annual consolidated financial statements, along with monthly management accounts and reporting.
- Management accountant for the property and holding companies that this organisation has within its wider structure, producing monthly management accounts, budgeting and forecasting.
Duties:
External Reporting
- Work with the group finance manager to provide regular review of financial accounting standards and updates
- Prepare and produce standalone statutory accounts and to assist in the annual audit and liaise with external auditors.
- Assist in preparation and production of the annual and interim financial statements
- Assist in external audit process through the year end and half year audits for group accounts and the relevant subsidiaries.
- Company secretarial filing and record keeping.
- Work closely with our tax advisors on corporation tax and VAT to ensure that tax is calculated, filed to and paid promptly with the HMRC.
Internal Reporting
- Month end accounting including accruals, prepayments, general book-keeping and variance analysis.
- Maintain schedules and prepare monthly journals to support subsidiaries team on their month-end reporting.
- Production of group monthly and statutory income statement, balance sheet and cashflow.
- Assist in quarterly in-year Forecasting, annual budgeting.
- Maintain records of intercompany transactions and reconciliation of intercompany balances within group entities on monthly basis.
- Update cash forecast and provide weekly updates on cash position and liquidity requirement to senior management.
Requirements:
- Part or fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Strong communication and relationship management skills, maintaining and building relationships with a variety of key stakeholders
- Strong numerical and analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to liaise with other teams to ensure efficient monthly processes.
- Experienced in the use of Microsoft Navision.