Lead: Financial Accountant

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Fastmarkets Group Full time

Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

We are supported by a working model that is based ona hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouragingeffective collaboration and accountability.
Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
As a senior member of the Finance team, the Lead Accountant, along with two other Lead Accountants, jointly owns the financials for Fastmarkets, and plays a key part in managing, developing & nurturing the talent in the team. As a key support for the Head of Group Reporting and Tax, the right candidate will thrive on being given ownership, be a proactive self-starter with a high level of attention to detail and enjoy working with stakeholders both in Finance and across the wider business.
Manage, coach and develop a high performing team of Management Accountants leading by example.
• Help to maintain robust financial control and reporting environment, recommending processes, procedures and enhancements as appropriate
• Prepare and review management accounts to ensure they are in accordance with company policy and applicable accounting standards. Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring balances are fully substantiated.
• Prepare and review monthly commentary on performance against budget, forecast and prior year for businesses under ownership.
• Review calculation of monthly commissions and annual bonuses against documented incentive schemes.
• Support business stakeholders with their management information needs.
• Work closely with the commercial finance team on budgeting and reforecasting
• Other ad-hoc tasks and projects as assigned by the Head of Group Reporting and Tax

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Set and generate a professional persona and act as an ambassador of finance.

We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

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