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Senior Financial Accountant

Sewell Wallis
Posted 4 hours ago, valid for a day
Location

Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 4JL

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Sewell Wallis is recruiting a Senior Financial Accountant for a rapidly growing, PE-backed business based in Harrogate.
  • The role requires a qualified accountant with a minimum of 3 years of experience and strong knowledge of UKGAAP.
  • The successful candidate will report to the Financial Controller and will be responsible for maintaining financial controls and supporting various finance projects.
  • The position offers a competitive salary and benefits such as enhanced parental leave, private medical insurance, and flexible working options.
  • This opportunity is ideal for a career-driven individual looking to join a dynamic finance team in a company that promotes career progression.

Sewell Wallis are partnering with a rapidly growing, PE backed business based in Harrogate who are looking to recruit a Senior Financial Accountant to join their diverse finance function.

This business has a great culture, operates a highly ethical business model and promotes career progression at every opportunity possible! Their finance team are a group of highly motivational and impressive individuals, making this an incredible opportunity for a career driven qualified accountant.

The successful candidate will report into the Financial Controller, and will drive change and improvements across all areas of financial control.

What will you be doing?

  • Maintain control over the balance sheet and implementing effective financial controls
  • Demonstrate a high level of knowledge regarding changes in accounting policies, become the company expert!
  • Ensure monthly group reporting is completed against tight deadlines
  • Provide day to day technical accounting support across the Group
  • Acquisition accounting
  • Liaise daily with the Senior Management Team to discuss any areas of concern and where improvements are required
  • Producing the statutory accounts
  • Respond to external and internal audit queries
  • Support with some interesting and exciting new finance projects

What skills are we looking for?

  • A qualified accountant, ideally ACA/ACCA from a recognisable accountancy practice
  • Strong knowledge of UKGAAP
  • An effective communicator
  • An audit background
  • Be able to work independently and use your own initiative

What's on offer?

  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
  • Private medical
  • Hybrid and flexible working patterns
  • Central location next to the train station
  • Fantastic training and career progression on offer

Send us your CV below, or contact Lucy Regan for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.