Financial Accountant

Sewell Wallis are currently representing our client, a US owned manufacturing business based in Sheffield as they look to recruit a Financial Accountant. As a financial Accountant you will be required to take responsibility for a wide range of accounting duties.

You will maintain accountancy standards and working procedures, coupled with financial acumen and budgetary foresight, to help to drive the business forward. A varied list of duties would see you working alongside a diverse team of skilled professionals within the current finance team.

Your exceptional Excel skills, audit and compliance background, problem-solving and analytical skills would be utilised to manage the financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems.

What will you be doing?

• Manage the statutory financial audit.
• Assist with accurate and robust monthly forecasting and preparation of the management accounts including all group submissions including financial and non financial information.
• To convert the monthly accounts in to an audit ready pack with all the supporting schedules, disclosures and back-up documentation including detailed balance sheet reconciliations.
• Create the daily and weekly financial management data from the system and create daily KPI's and weekly profitability reports to assist the business manage costs.
• Update all of the planned meeting reporting data including correlating information from the wider business and ensuring tight deadlines are met to allow sufficient preparation time.
• Manage all compliance reporting including VAT, ONS and Pension.
• Monthly forecasting and annual budgeting.
• Ad hoc tasks to support the site finance team.

What skills do we require?

• Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA with experience working in a similar role.
• Self-confidence, decisiveness, resilience and ability to thrive under pressure in a fast-paced environment is essential.
• Passion, energy and drive and a pro-active approach is needed for this role.

What's on offer?

• 50,000 salary.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Pension scheme.
• Early finish on a Friday.

Send us your CV below or contact Kayley Haythornthwaite 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.