Senior Financial Accountant

6 hours ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Sewell Wallis Full time

Sewell Wallis are delighted to be working with professional services business based in Wakefield, who are looking to appoint a Senior Financial Accountant to join the thriving finance function. Our client are continuing to expand and are a highly profitableand dynamic organisation.
Reporting into a highly impressive Financial Controller, this is a great opportunity for someone who is looking for a varied role with a commercial steer to it. The role will of course involve financial accounting; however it will also include business partneringto aid the decision making of the Board and Executive team.
You will take on a small team to coach and develop so the desire to manage is essential in this position.
As the Senior Financial Accountant your role will include the following duties:

- Business partnering with the SMT and the wider finance team, providing reports and analysis for them, focusing on reporting against forecast
- Present financial data to relevant stakeholders at all levels
- Assist in the preparation of the statutory accounts
- Act as the point of contact for external auditors
- Submission of corporate and other tax submissions
- Assist in annual planning and reforecasting activity, with a specific focus on costs and overheads, cashflow and balance sheet
- Provide support to Operational stakeholders in following correct financial procedures
- Ensure accounting processes and systems remain appropriate and look to improve efficiencies as the business continues to grow
- Manage a team of 3 individuals, providing them with regular one to ones
To be considered for this opportunity, you will need to be a qualified accountant with experience in leading and developing junior members of a finance team. It is essential that you have previous statutory accounting and audit experience.
Aside from the technical requirements, you need to be a confident communicator who is not afraid to challenge senior stakeholders when required. This is a growing business with lots of opportunity for career development, so an ambitious personality would gofar in this position.
For further information please contact Lucy Regan or Emma Dugdale.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levelswithin finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester.Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.



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