Accountant

About the Role

In the role of Company Accountant you manage the daily finances and report to the CFO and senior managers on a day to day basis. The Accountant role also requires a business partnering approach with other operational leaders. You will coordinate and manage all aspects of the finance department including maintaining all financial and balance sheet schedules, complete month end processes and ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures.

Key responsibilities include:

• Prepare monthly management accounts
• Maintaining cashflow forecast incl. daily bank rec’s and weekly reporting
• Raise payments for authorisation in-line with credit supplier agreements
• Payroll – gather all employee information & liaise with external provider, raise payments, reconcile accounts and act as the point of contact for all payroll enquiries
• Balance sheet reconciliation and posting month-end journal entries
• Preparing, recording and where applicable communicating Supplier and customer statement reconciliations
• Prepare VAT returns for management approval ensuring timely submissions
• Develop both leading and lagging KPI’s to track business performance, not just limited to financial, but including delivery performance
• Maintenance of internal controls
• Support the annual audit activity
• Complete any mandatory company returns
• Prepare margin analysis based on customer and project financials, with the ability to forecast to conclusion
• Monitor and report fleet costs i.e. maintenance trends, fuel usage
• Assisting with the preparation of the annual company budget and quarterly updates as required
• Control of petty cash
• Support office administrator inputting sales and purchase invoices
• Company insurances, business rates, leasing, health scheme, company cars.
• Cover the accounting and reporting for any subsidiaries as acquired or created
• Other ad-hoc activities which might be required from time to time including but not limited to: capital expenditure requisitions, bespoke reporting and business planning/scenario’s and their financial implications

Person

• Fully Qualified accountant required
• Sound analytical skills with good attention to detail
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and self-management/responsible skills
• Ability to communicate with non-financial people to ensure a level of understanding
• A flexible, pro-active and willing approach, comfortable working within a small team
• An innovative and inquisitive mind to challenge and improve existing and new processes and controls
• An understanding of financial data and analytical ability
• Ability to produce accurate work and the self-motivation to meet targets
• Hold a current UK driving licence
• Have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship
• 1 day working from home per week