Senior Accountant

1 month ago

Colchester, United Kingdom Informa Full time
Reporting into the Finance Manager this is a key operational role which is accountable for delivering an accurate, high value consistent accounting service for your specific division/s. You will lead a team within the Record to Report (R2R) function providing leadership and guidance to ensure your team delivers excellent accounting service to the business driving balance sheet integrity. You will be a high performing individual that embraces and drives change management processes whilst showing effective collaboration with your team and business counterparties. You will also ensure that all company policies are adhered to and that specific duties are carried out within set time limits whilst providing an excellent level of service to all Informa customers and colleagues.

The Senior Accountant is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:
  • Responsible for the monthly close process of the Management Accounts for your division/s; Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. Details include; Reconciliations, Accruals, Allocations, Revenue downloads, Pre-payments, Variance Analysis and commentary in accordance with the published timetable
  • Be the main point of contact with the business for your division/s
  • Ensure Balance Sheet reconciliations are completed in accordance with Balance Sheet Integrity guidelines and control frameworks
  • Ensure that issues are escalated as appropriate to your Finance Manager in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for Financial Reporting and Analysis including Group reporting, supplementary packs and ad-hoc requests
  • Lead a team of R2R accounting professionals, ensuring that planning and prioritisation of work within the team is enough to maintain and improve team's performance. This may include managing the R2R service provided by the BPO if this is in the scope of your role. Managing the BPO includes ensuring that the BPO are delivering the service in line with contractual SLAs.
  • Encourage an environment in which people value diversity either in recruitment, team formation and/or in developing plans and strategies.
  • Publish financial results in the relevant finance systems
  • Ensure communications are handled between the Shared Services Operations (SSO), Group finance and the Business Teams
  • To be involved with any acquisition integration/due diligence
  • Working on projects within the SSO and department including key process testing & systems
  • Working with internal and external auditors
  • Assist in the accounting integration of new products into the SSO accounting structure and systems
  • Analyse and solve Ad-hoc problems using knowledge of business and systems
  • Tax & Compliance duties as required by your SSO
    Leadership:
    • Ensure that appropriate People Development tools are utilised throughout your team consistently and fairly to ensure optimum performance of all colleagues concentrating on both technical and soft skill development in conjunction with local HR colleagues
    • Ensure that planning and prioritisation of work within the team is enough to maintain and improve performance metrics
    • Encourage an environment in which people value diversity either in recruitment, team formation and/or in developing plans and strategies.
    • Bring team members into discussions so that they can contribute their ideas, are involved in setting team objectives and feel engaged on issues that affect them.
    • Support, assist and cover team members where necessary

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