Financial Reporting Accountant

Location
England, East Sussex
Salary
£250 per day
Posted
10 Dec 2016
Closes
17 Dec 2016
Ref
TJM1612-20
Contact
Finance and Accountancy Division
Job Title
Accountant
Experience Levels
Qualified Accountant
Contract Type
Contract
Hours
Full Time

Financial Reporting Accountant 

A large blue-chip manufacturing organisation based on the South Coast are seeking a Financial Reporting Specialist on a 9 month fixed term contract to cover a secondment

Key responsibilities:

* Provide oversight support to outsourced partner accounting processes, including month end and UK GAAP accounting as required.
* Manage tax and statutory accounting for regional areas of responsibility and overall compliance in areas of legal/regulatory filings.
* Provide regular Balance sheet updates to senior leaders, explaining complex transactions and balances, highlighting key risks and opportunities.
* Manage internal and external audits as required through query resolution, remediate control improvement opportunities, self-test controls as needed.
* Manage (UK) Legal entity forecasting & consolidation processes and other key metrics to highlight balance sheet health to senior leaders as needed.

Educated to degree level, having attained a recognised accounting qualification, i.e. CIMA, ACCA, ACA or European equivalent.
Other finance qualifications eg Treasury, tax, economics are desirable.

Financial Reporting Accountant Essential Skills:

* Previous experience in a diverse professional team is essential with business exposure.
* Excellent coordination, inter-personal and organisational skills.
* Awareness of IFRS principles and accounting.
* Previous audit experience.
* Experience or exposure to managing a small team.

Competitive benefits.

Please quote TJM1612-20 when calling Alexander Lloydand ask for our Accountancy and Finance division. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. The Alexander Lloyd Interim Division is currently enjoying huge amounts of success in placing Part-Qualified and Qualified Accountants (or Equivalent), Project Managers and Interim Management in assignments throughout the South of England.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role.