Senior Financial Accountant

1 week ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom eFinancialCareers Full time

Responsibilities:

  • Manage a broad range of operational accounting activities, enabling delivery of robust financial results working in conjunction with Financial Control
  • Manage and drive the refinement of process, procedures and systems to continuously improve the efficiency and control across accounting and balance sheet substantiation activities
  • Support key stakeholders through the delivery of meaningful variance and trend analysis while working in conjunction with our Financial Control and Business Partnering teams
  • Oversight of and mentor staff involved in preparation and posting of general ledger journal entries
  • Represent Finance Operations and input into projects / change programmes, impacting accounting activities, as necessary
  • Maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including our auditors, to ensure service delivery meets customer expectations
  • Lead colleagues, in a matrix fashion, working on accounting activities, at our offshore shared services centre
  • Work with Senior Finance Managers to set the tone and create a culture of continuous improvement within accounting activities in Finance Operations

Requirements:

In order to thrive in the role of a Senior Financial Accountant, we would expect you to have working experience in most of the following areas:

  • Be a qualified accountant (for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or have relevant years of working experience
  • Have excellent knowledge of relevant accounting software and tools such as Oracle Fusion and Hyperion Financial Management
  • Have a strong understanding of key accounting control and risk management protocols such as SOX
  • Can demonstrate experience of leading structured process improvement activity in an accounting environment
  • Be confident building controls into processes


In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.



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