Financial Control Accountant

5 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Addleshaw Goddard Full time

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Due to the continued growth and success of the firm, we are looking to expand our Finance team with an additional Financial Control Accountant. 
This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic accountant looking for a broad role with end-to-end ownership of all aspects of entity financial accounting and reporting. This role would appeal to someone with an interest in working within multiple jurisdictions and GAAPs and offer the chance to expand your knowledge and experience in a variety of different technical accounting and control areas.

THE TEAM
The Group Finance team supports and drives the financial success of Addleshaw Goddard, striving to deliver a first-class service to all stakeholders. The Group Finance team comprises business professionals across a range of disciplines including Financial Control, Tax, Procurement, Business Partnering, Financial Planning and Analysis, Credit Control, Accounts Payable, Legal Billing and Legal Cashiering.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE
Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, and indirectly to the Financial Controller, the Financial Control Accountant will be responsible for a wide range of financial accounting and control activities across multiple Group entities. They will work cross-functionally, building relationships and a good understanding of the business to ensure accurate and timely accounting and reporting. 
Audit and Financial Statements
• Preparation of various sets of statutory financial statements for both limited company and LLP entities, under UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Day to day management of audits for each allocated entity, including regular liaison with auditors, tracking of audit requests and supporting with provision of all required information in line with agreed timelines.
• Working with the Partnership, Tax, HR, Commercial and other teams in finance and around the business to ensure the correct front end and partnership disclosures.
• Working within the Financial Control team to ensure all audit issues are escalated and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Ensuring all statutory accounts adjustments are posted and reconciled in an accurate and timely manner.
Other Accounting and control activities
• Balance sheet reconciliations preparation and review.
• Support with intercompany reconciliations, processes and review.
• Support and ownership of other areas of team responsibility which may include foreign exchange accounting, property accounting, local taxation, partnership finance, VAT analysis and review, or any other areas as necessary.
• Support with technical accounting advisory and projects, including new UK GAAP implementation.
• Improvement of controls, processes and compliance in the financial statements arena.YOUR AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE 

To be successful in this role, you will:
• Be a qualified accountant (all qualifications considered), ideally with 0-2 years PQE.
• Have experience of preparing statutory accounts and a good understanding of UK GAAP and IFRS. LLP accounts and SORP experience desirable but not essential.
• Have strong attention to detail with the curiosity to identify, understand and drive imaginative solutions to challenges.
• Be organised, self-starting and comfortable managing day to day workloads.
• Have great communication skills and a proven track record at building successful relationships with customers.
• Take responsibility and accountability for all outputs.
• Be comfortable working with individuals at all levels and happy managing upwards.
• Have a strong working knowledge in IT systems, specifically across MS packages (Excel (essential), PowerPoint, Word, Outlook etc.)

OUR FIRM
Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition. 
We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.
Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. 

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.

Are you up for the challenge?

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