Senior Financial Accountant

Location: Surrey
Salary: £65,000 per annum (Negotiable D.O.E)
Hybrid: 3 days a week in the office and 2 days from home

Role Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and driven Financial Accounts Manager to modernize and streamline a financial accounts function. Working in a growing multinational PE backed organization the role manages two direct reports and is responsible for the balance sheet as well as providing business partner support. Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, the perfect candidate will hit the ground running, taking ownership of a busy month-end schedule and playing a pivotal role in a root and branch review to improve the timeliness of reporting and output of their team to key stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensuring all financial accounts team month-end activities are completed in line with group financial reporting deadlines
Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, ensuring all accounts are reconciled on a timely basis and develop a clear reconciliation the group chart of accounts.
Enhancing the analysis and reporting of month figures, providing variance analysis vs budget and prior year.
Enable to the team to provide business partner support and insightful reporting to department heads and other key stakeholders.
Production and analysis of the monthly payroll journal and being a key link between Finance and the People team on all payroll associated costs.
Build relationships with other departments to ensure systems and processes allow accurate, appropriate and complete information to flow into the finance function.
Maintenance of the Fixed Asset register, regularly liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure accuracy.
Timely and accurate calculation of commissions with ability to summarise the output to both Sales and Finance.
Overseeing VAT reconciliations for relevant entities
Assist in line with group budgeting cycles.
Support with special projects as directed by the FC/FD.
Liaising with auditors at year end and producing Year end schedules.
Completion of National Statistics returns.

Skills Profile

Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA with at least 4 years PQE
Desire and drive to improve systems and process
Ability to work under own initiative, bringing own ideas
Ability to dig into the detail whilst maintaining a high-level view to effectively problem solve
Effectively manage, support and develop team
Organised to enable deadlines to be effectively met
Ability to explain financial matters firmly and clearly to non-financial people
Strong attention to detail as well as having the ability to consider materiality of transactions
Advanced IT skills, particularly Excel with the ability to manage large volumes of data