Group Financial Accountant

1 week ago

London Area, United Kingdom TalentEdge Full time

My client – an ENERGY TRADING business based in the CITY is seeking a GROUP FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT to join them whilst they experience unprecedented growth


PLEASE NOTE – This role is based in the office for 3 out of 5 days


ABOUT THE JOB

The Group Financial Accountant will assume the responsibility and accountability for the integrity of the relevant corporate balances that form the books and records at a General Ledger (GL) account split by profit centre or cost centre level.


The Group Financial Accountant role also includes significant control activities required to support that reporting. This includes performing Balance Sheet and PnL integrity checks, acting as a gatekeeper for how activities are captured in SAP ERP.


The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that all accounts are reconciled and substantiated, informing end users of legal entity data that all control and substantiation processes have been completed, and performing intra-month checks to ensure that activities are correctly captured in the underlying books and records of each legal entity.


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • For set entities, responsible for month-end accounting and control procedures in line with month-end close processes and the Financial Control Framework.
  • Identify, design, and implement improvements to key SAP ERP processes, e.g., allocations, accruals & reversal, Fixed Assets, Intangibles IFRS 16, intercompany reconciliations, and pre-payments.Work closely with the technical accounting team to ensure advice given is seen through to physical implementation, both for existing business activity as well as new structures taken on.
  • Support the standardisation and improvement of month-end activities for all legal entities to ensure consistency of processes and controls.
  • Lead efficiency projects to drive reduction in close timeline across the month-end process.
  • Supporting other Finance teams by acting as the key interface between the Controlling team and reporting functions. Confirming that all responsible financial data is accurate, reconciled, and complete in SAP ERP. Additionally, provide evidence that all relevant data is underpinned by rigorous governance processes and controls.
  • Ownership of sign off for relevant Profit and Loss and Balance sheet accounts using the GL Sign off tool.
  • Review working papers and results of more junior team members within the wider Trade Accounting function.
  • Support auditors as part of annual audit.


THE IDEAL PERSON

  • Qualified Accountant, with 5 years or more experience post qualification
  • Strong understanding of IFRS
  • Proactive and decisive mindset, with experience working to tight close timescales.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Solid understanding of business processes and controls, ability to analyse and identify improvements.
  • Strong desire to learn and develop professionally and take a willingness to share expertise and develop others.
  • Experience of a commodities or trading business would be an advantage.
  • Experience of working in an international organisation with an overseas parent company would be an advantage.
  • Strong MS Excel experience; explicitly the use and manipulation of pivot tables on often large amounts of transactional level data.



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