Financial Accountant

**Financial Accountant** - Part Qualified
**West London
£40,000 - £45,000**+ study support & benefits

**The Company**

This family-owned international business specializes in gourmet catering across a number of divisions including restaurants, events & airlines. They operate out of 32 locations in 11 countries on 3 continents, maintaining the highest standard of qualityin both products and services. As a premium brand, they provide high-class gourmet entertainment, flawless service, and an unrivalled all-round service package. The team play a vital role and are the key to the company’s success. If you have a passion forfood then this is a fantastic opportunity. We are supporting the recruitment of a part-qualified experienced Financial Accountant, you will lead a Financial Accounting team, overseeing all activities and ensuring the smooth execution of this function. Thereis also plenty of opportunity to develop the function, implementing changing and streamlining the current processes.

**Key Responsibilities** of the Finance Manager
- Maintaining the Financial Statements to a high standard
- Accountable for submitting Statutory Accounts and Tax returns to mandated deadlines
- Owning the relationship with the banks, and ensuring strict anti-fraud processes are in place for payments
- Working collaboratively and openly with the controlling department on month end
- Maintain process documentation for areas such as asset disposal, journal approvals, bad debt write-off
- Build and maintain excellent working relationships with other department ensuring the provision of a positive and professional service that enables the progression of the financial strategy
- Ensuring compliance with financial controls and acting as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors, assisting where necessary and appropriate
- Overseeing and approving journal entries, reconciliations of financial statements and accounts, and ensure data accuracy.
- Maintaining good working relationships with all members as well as our partners, vendors, and other stakeholders
- Maintaining and updating the fixed assets database and intercompany recharge management

**Skills & Attributes** of the Financial Accountant
- CIMA or ACCA Part-qualified accountant & committed to completing studies
- Experienced within a Financial Accounting, audit or Financial Management role
- Meticulous attention to detail and precise record keeping skills
- Highly proficient in excel with excellent working knowledge of accounting software packages and the ability to handle and integrate complex data sources, both manual and electronic
- Good working knowledge of UK tax, auditing, and commercial regulatory rules
- Build strong relationships, mentoring and motivating, creating a team spirit
- Flexible in the way you think, making decisions efficiently and handling change to ensure everything we do is right for our partners and the company
- Self-motivation, resilience, and a positive change champion in a fast-paced environment that requires flexibility and adapting
- Passion for high-end cuisine and a love for food is desirable

**Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.**
- Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Our divisions include: Legal Operations (Legal Tech and Legal Project Management, LPM, Operations Project Managers, Change, Innovation and Process Improvement); Accounting& Finance (Part and fully qualified Accountants); Pricing & Strategy; Pfi/PPP & FM._
- Keywords: financial accountant, finance manager, accounting, ACA, ACCA, part qualified, _

Ref: BHJOB3543_5607