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Financial Accountant

Taylor Hawkes Ltd
Posted 7 hours ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Warwick, Warwickshire CV359EF, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client, a family-owned environmental company in Warwick with over 100 years of history, is seeking a Financial Accountant to join their finance team.
  • The role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in financial accounting and offers a competitive salary of £50,000 to £60,000 per year.
  • Key responsibilities include managing month-end procedures, balance sheet reconciliations, and the intercompany process, as well as supporting budgeting and forecasting efforts.
  • The Financial Accountant will also oversee a team including a Purchase Ledger Supervisor, Payroll Manager, and Accounts Administrator, while serving as the main contact for external auditors during the year-end audit process.
  • This position is crucial for maintaining internal controls, preparing statutory accounts, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations.

Our client is a family owned environmental company based in Warwick with a long history dating back over 100 years. They are currently looking for a Financial Accountant to join their finance team.

You will report to the Financial Controller and will line manager a Purchase Ledger Supervisor, a Payroll Manager, and an Accounts Administrator.

Duties:

Financial Accounting

  • Month end procedures including closure of ledgers, calculation and processing of month end journals including, but not limited to, foreign currency revaluations and accounting for forward currency contracts
  • Maintenance of certain balance sheet accounts
  • Preparation/review of balance sheet reconciliations
  • Ownership of intercompany process
  • Support monthly submissions to Group
  • Internal control processes and documentation
  • Consolidation of results for two divisions
  • Assistance with month end board pack preparation

Management Accounting

  • Ownership of the management accounts process for the Parts division of the business
  • Assistance with stock accounting for the OE division of the business
  • Assistance with calculation of provisions
  • Ownership of overhead accounting

Budgeting and Forecasting

  • Assistance with preparation of budget and 3 forecasts per year
  • Ownership of budgeting/forecasting for balance sheet and cash flow
  • Submission of budget and forecast data to Group

Sub Ledger Management

  • Ensure sales ledger operates within agreed credit limits
  • Review of sales ledger for old balances, credit balances etc
  • Monitoring of bad debt provision
  • Setting up of new suppliers on the purchase ledger
  • Review of purchase ledger for old balances, debit balances etc
  • Review of supplier statement reconciliations and GRNI reconciliation
  • Preparation of business payment and practices report

Statutory Accounting and Audit

  • Management and control of year end audit process - main day to day contact for external auditors
  • Preparation of statutory accounts from TB to sign off stage under FRS102
  • Production of year end schedules for auditors

Tax Compliance

  • Preparation of year end tax pack for tax advisors
  • Calculation of year end tax journals and maintenance of control accounts
  • Liaising with tax advisors regarding corporate tax, personal tax and indirect tax as required
  • Review of quarterly VAT returns
  • Review of monthly PAYE/NIC returns
  • Transfer pricing documentation and compliance
  • PSA returns

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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.