Senior Financial Accountant

Working with this hugely popular brand, we are looking for a qualified Senior Financial Accountant to support our clients ambitious growth plans in their Cheltenham head office

You should be an experienced technically strong Financial Accountant who is able to produce accurate management accounts and financial statements with focus on the technical aspects of financial reporting.

You will provide timely and accurate financial and management information to a wide-ranging audience across the business and provide insight in to current and future performance of the business.

We are seeking a delivery focused, solution orientated Senior Financial Accountant with the experience necessary to be effective immediately working within our global finance team.

Ideally, you will have a strong background of financial reporting, you will have a strong accounting knowledge, significant experience of supporting stakeholders at all levels and a proven ability to inquisitively question others to deliver results.

Duties in this role will include;

• Support the Senior Financial Control Manager in the preparation of the Group Statutory Accounts at year end and interim
• Support liaising with the external and internal auditors to ensure a clean audit and thus minimising risk.
• Support the local country statutory analysis and accounts preparation where necessary.
• Investigate and report anomalies arising from accounts preparation
• Support and lead projects that champion best practice in the management of the Financial Reporting team.
• Improve and drive process improvements, to support the timely and accurate analysis of the financial accounts which enhance controls across financial and management accounts.
• Support the financial accounts process with accurate reconciliations of key balance sheet accounts.
• Ensure the business complies with the IFRS accounting standards and legislative frameworks.
• Act as a subject matter expert for technical accounting queries, impairment, goodwill, IFRS 9 etc.
• Manage the consolidation companies for the Group Reporting at year end and interim.
• Ensure the regulatory returns are made accurately and on a timely basis.
• Manage the compliance activities for the financing facility including managing monthly reporting and periodic audits. (inc. budgeting for expected financing costs).
• Be the main point of contact for the lenders’ Agent for the financing facility.
• Support and be involved in transformation projects, to support improvements and efficiency across finance.
• Closing out of National Statistics across the various local regions within the Group.
• Support the Senior Financial Control Manager in the development of the Financial Reporting Team, knowledge and capability across Finance.
• A strong number 2 in the Financial Reporting team
• Be able to prepare memo’s, policies and procedures documents