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Job Title: Financial Accountant
Are you a Financial Accountant, looking for a fresh start? We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our client’s dynamic team.
The position is hybrid and will require the ability to travel for business trips.
About your new role:
- Supporting the Regional Financial Controller (France and Ireland) with month-end reporting to the company including, preparation of monthly management accounts, monthly trading commentary and monthly checklists within the reporting deadlines.
- Supporting the Regional Financial Controller in preparation of annual financial statements and related schedules.
- Co-ordinating with auditors (both internal and external) to ensure a smooth and efficient audit process.
- Management of the month-end close process, including co-ordination with other members of the finance team to ensure timely completion of month-end tasks.
- Ensuring that all key month-end reconciliations have been performed by the appropriate team member and reviewed by an appropriate supervisor.
- Ensuring that a comprehensive month-end folder is prepared each month, containing all key month-end reconciliations, and supporting schedules for key balance sheet accounts.
- Ensuring compliance with all financial control requirements (e.g. manual journals, key account reconciliations.
- Supporting the Commercial Finance team with weekly and quarterly forecasts and annual budget process.
Overhead Management and Reporting
- Co-ordinating with the accounts payable department to ensure that invoices are posted to the appropriate nominal ledgers and profit centres (site-level, network-level, central).
- Prepare and send monthly spend trackers to the operation teams to ensure the correct allocation of expenses to the relevant budget categories.
- Responsibility for month-end overhead accruals process.
- Working with the Regional Financial Controller to develop and maintain the Monthly Overhead Reporting in the in-house systems.
- Working with the Regional Financial Controller to prepare and maintain site-by-site and network level P&Ls in the in-house system including monthly allocation of month end accruals and ensuring that team members tag all margin postings by profit centre and by material.
Property, Plant and Equipment and Property Management
- Overseeing the maintenance of a detailed fixed asset register for the business.
- Ensuring that assets are capitalised in a timely manner and depreciated appropriately.
- Accounting for repairs/maintenance/upgrades.
- Ensuring that the property master data is accurately reflected in SAP database is kept up to date.
Taxation
- In conjunction with our tax advisors, ensuring that VAT, Excise Duty, Corporation Tax and other tax returns are prepared and filed within the relevant deadlines.
General
- Support the Regional Financial Controller and Finance Director on ad hoc projects as and when required.
- Co-ordination with other managers within the business for cross-cover, and for co-ordination of any tasks that impact on the financial reporting function.
- Support and develop good working relationships with the French operations teams.
- Interaction with external/internal parties including customers, auditors and the company’s compliance teams.
- Keep up to date on relevant accounting issues that may impact on this business.
- Perform role in line with all corporate policies.
- Cross train with other members of the Finance Team to ensure adequate holiday / leave cover can be maintained and ensure that all major team tasks are always managed.
About you:
- Qualified Accountant with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to work as part of a team.
- Proficient with Microsoft products.
- Experience of SAP an advantage.
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