Financial Accountant

1 week ago

Croydon, United Kingdom New Avenues Full time

Are you a technically strong accountant seeking a varied role within a highly respected organisation? Practice trained with PQE? Looking for an FTC that is varied, interesting and working within a lovely team?


Apply below after reading through all the details and supporting information regarding this job opportunity.

This opportunity will see you join a privately owned, highly entrepreneurial Retail and Wholesale business on a fixed term contract for a 6 month period. This highly successful business continues to grow, adding new elements to its diverse portfolio and with such a high level of employee engagement, it’s a great time to join the company.

This position sits within the central finance function and will take responsibility for producing the group and financial/statutory accounts for two key group entities. The Group is predominately UK based but there are some international entities.

This role requires a qualified accountant with extensive financial accounting experience, ideally gained within a multi-entity organisation. You will need to be highly organised, have great communication skills and want to work within a dynamic organisation that has a great culture and management team.

This is a 6 months fixed term contract

As part of a team the responsibilities of the role include:

  • Manage and coordinate the preparation of the statutory financial statements for group and individual entities
  • Manage the successful end to end delivery of the external audits
  • Ensure the timely delivery of statutory filings and compliance
  • Responsible for tax including Corporation Tax, VAT, Tax relief; Coordinate tax analysis, calculations and filing; liaising with external tax advisor
  • Review and develop best practice for Accounting, Tax & Compliance
  • Review and develop the Transfer Pricing Policy and Tax Strategy
  • Prepare accounting for Acquisitions, Disposals and Hive Ups
  • Manage a team member responsible for Balance Sheet Rex, Payroll Accounting, impairment analysis, management recharges
  • Corporate Governance, supporting in the review of the company’s controls framework, design and implementation of revised processes
  • Provide support in terms of training and development to the off-shore Shared Service Centre Finance Team.

Candidate Requirements:

  • Fully Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent) with a strong technical accounting background in FRS102 for Large UK Companies
  • Experience of working or training gained within an accountancy practice, ideally top 20 UK firm.
  • Experience of working within, managing and mentoring an off-shore SSC
  • Exceptional technical accounting experience
  • Group consolidations experience
  • Strong working knowledge of Taxation
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Experience in change management and process reengineering
  • Hands on approach, analytical and detail orientated
  • Positive, ‘can-do’ attitude, enjoys problem solving and sees a task through to completion
  • Confident, clear communicator
  • Team player with flexible approach
  • Great relationship builder

Please note only suitable applicants will be contacted regarding this position.

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