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Job Title: Financial Accountant Fixed Term Contract 1 year
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:
- Reporting to the Regional Financial Controller (Denmark)
- Supporting the team 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 team 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 person.
- 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).
Systems and Reporting
- Collaborate with the IT team to promptly troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
- Develop and implement automated solutions to streamline financial reporting and data analysis processes.
- Work with the BI team to create financial reports and dashboards to enhance reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Troubleshoot and resolve finance-related system issues effectively.
- Identify opportunities for system enhancements and work with the IT team to implement upgrades and improvements.
Overhead Management and Reporting
- Collaborate with the accounts payable department to ensure that invoices are posted to the appropriate nominal ledgers and profit centres (site-level, network-level, central).
- Responsibility for month-end overhead accruals process, working with the Head of Finance to develop and maintain the monthly overhead reporting in the in-house system.
- Working with the Head of Finance to develop and maintain site-by-site and network level P&Ls on 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.
Taxation
- In conjunction with our tax advisors and Danish team, ensuring that corporation tax accruals are booked and payments are made as requested.
EV Chargers
- Support the EV charger network rollout across retail sites in Denmark, develop and maintain site P&Ls in the in-house system for EV business.
General
- Support the Regional Financial Controller – Nordics and Head of Financial Reporting & Controlling 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.
- Foster and maintain strong working relationships with the Danish operations teams.
- Engage with both internal and external stakeholders, including customers, auditors and company Compliance teams.
- Keep up to date on relevant accounting issues that may impact on this business.
- Perform role in line with all corporate policies.
About you:
- Qualified Accountant with a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
- Preferably holds a professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA).
- Proven experience in a similar role, combining accounting and IT/systems responsibilities.
- Experience of managing and improving financial systems and working with third party providers to ensure the system is working to its optimum capacity.
- Strong analytical, numerical, and critical reasoning skills, capable of delivering practical solutions to complex problems.
- Proven experience with SAP or other large ERP systems required.
- Advanced Excel skills and proficient in other Microsoft products.
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