Financial Accountant

Reed Finance are currently supporting a prominent Swindon employer that actively promotes agile and flexible working to secure a technically sound Financial Accountant to take on the Financial Statements and Statutory Reporting for the group subsidiaries and compliance with Accounting Standards and Companies Act.

• You will be the External auditor interface and query management;
• Prepare annual statutory accounts in compliance with IFRS (FRS101) and UK company law.
• Group reporting including preparation and submission of quarterly figures for inclusion into the group reports ensuring that local GAAP actuals are adjusted into IFRS.

• Reconcile Group reporting system to management reporting system quarterly.
• Liaise with Group for any changes in accounting standards.
• Ensuring entries made within entity accounts are compliant with UK/IFRS and Companies Act
• Ensuring that accounts are appropriately reconciled and free from material misstatement.
• Preparing month end accruals

You must be a Qualified Accountant with CIMA, ACA or ACCA. Passed finalists and newly qualified with the right aptitude and experience will absolutely be considered.

• A strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS is key, plus Financial Statements experience. Highly experienced in SAP
• Advanced excel skills are required
• Accounting experience ideally within a large Company/Group environment
• Experience of dealing with complexity, keeping up to date with Commercial developments in a changing environment
• Ability to present financial information using appropriate media to senior management
• Ability to influence stakeholders
• Must be organised and have the ability to balance requirements of multiple stakeholders

The successful candidate will highly remunerated with a competitive salary and lucrative benefits package, to include but not limited to;

15% Bonus,

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Up to 15% Pension

Life insurance

Family medical care