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Job Description:
Job Title: Statutory AccountantClient: One of UK's Luxury Fasion Brand
Work Schedule: 40 Hours/Week
Contract: 4 Months
Location: Leeds (Fully Onsite)
JOB PURPOSE
The Statutory Accountant is responsible for supporting the Manager, Statutory Accounting in ensuring the timely production, sign-off and submission of statutory accounts globally. This will include taking ownership for the preparation / production of statutory accounts in specific European entities.
Core Accountabilities/Measures of Success
- Statutory accounts are completed accurately and submitted in accordance with deadlines and managing issues in relation to this
- Successful end-to-end project plan to support the timely production, sign-off and submission of statutory accounts
- Efficient, effective and repeatable process developed to deliver statutory accounts
The Statutory Accountant will be responsible for:
- Taking ownership for the preparation / production of statutory accounts for a number of European entities.
- Ensuring timely submission of information to support statutory accounts production and supporting with managing issues in relation to this.
- Consistently and proactively responds to ad hoc queries and prioritises work e?ectively to ensure that these are responded to on a timely basis
- Working collaboratively with various internal and external stakeholders (e.g. IT, Tax Team, Co Sec, External Audit).
- Liaising with internal BBS resources and external service providers including external auditors
- Consistently working towards agreed roles, goals, timescales and ensuring that work is carried out to expected standards
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and controls around statutory accounts and support implementation as appropriate
- Demonstrating awareness of good practice Statutory Accounting concepts, technology and methodologies and ensuring these are implemented at Burberry to the extent possible;
- Working as part of a team to understand root causes and represent process procedures, practicalities and exceptions
- Obtaining and sharing feedback from stakeholders within the team and offering solutions to address where required
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified e.g. ACA, CA, CTA, ACCA or CIMA
- Statutory Accounts experience required (ideally international accounts experience).
- Works collaboratively within a team and has dealt with change
- Demonstrable ability to identify and grasp the broader issues and provide guidance
- Consistently demonstrates collaborative working
- Requires good understanding of IT systems and processes - SAP knowledge is a plus
- Shows some influence on a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders across a range of operational issues
- Can demonstrate development of good negotiation skills
- Consistently good written and verbal communication skills especially stakeholder management
- Creates effective relationships through interpersonal skills consistently
- Consistently excellent attention to detail
- Consistent ability to work under pressure and handle multiple priorities and operational demands.
- Requests feedback to support self-development and acts on this consistently
- Understands the ability of technology to drive efficiencies and enhance service delivery.
Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
