Financial Accountant [6 monthy Contract]
Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our client in Farnborough for a Financial Accountant.
We're looking for a Qualified/QBE Accountant with proven experience in month-end processes and financial reporting.
This is a contract role for 6 months working inside IR35 in Farnborough on a hybrid basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Month-End Process Execution:
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Prepare/process general ledger journals for all areas of the financials including payroll, accruals, prepayments.
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Fix transactional postings to ensure transactions are assigned to the correct cost centre, account code, project and department.
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Analyse the P&L and balance sheet and make adjustments as necessary to ensure our financials are correct.
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Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations.
- Transactional Support
- To keep the operation going you may be required to cover some AP transactional processing if our AP Specialist is on annual leave or where transactional volumes have increased.
- Group Reporting
- Preparation of group reporting packs (including TB mapping files).
- VAT Return Preparation
- Preparation of VAT returns and submission to HMRC.
- Process Improvement Projects:
- Support the Controller to configure Microsoft D365 in order to automate processes and improve key controls.
Qualifications/experience/Attributes
- Qualified/Part Qualified Accountant or Qualified by Experience with experience in different sized organisations, from large best-practice to small start-up environments.
- Proven experience in month-end processes and financial reporting. Must be able to deliver monthly numbers with high accuracy on time.
- Experience in an environment where your priorities can change quickly and there is pressure to deliver.
- High attention to detail and ability to question and analyse financial data.
- Ability to balance immediate, urgent requirements with long term priorities, ensuring actions and measures are put in place well ahead of time to anticipate and manage future control requirements.
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