Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

HQ

Milton Keynes

£50,400 - £63,000 p/a

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway.

This Senior Financial Accountant role offers you the opportunity to utilise your technical accounting expertise, whilst co-ordinating and undertaking the delivery of all the Network Rail group and central government statutory accounts and interim reporting. The Senior Financial Accountant will be responsible for elements of group business unit accounting.

Key accountabilities of the Senior Financial Accountant include:

• Managing the timetable for the production of group and central government statutory accounts and interim reporting
• Producing initial drafts of the group consolidation for year end and interim accounts and producing and updating the final financial statements
• Co-ordinating the calculation of corporate balances, including pensions charge and deficit, insurance prepayments and accruals, financial instruments and debt, asset valuations and interest projections
• Preparing and analysing the group’s debt position, including forex and hedge accounting, revaluing to market and hedge effectiveness testing
• Undertaking bookkeeping for the Corporate Business Units, including preparation of accounts for board signing, debt and bank reports and covenant workings
• Analysing movements in asset valuations and reporting renewals and enhancement expenditure, revaluation and impairment within the access charges review framework
• Managing journal processing and BMIS (Network Rail’s financial accounting system) integration.
• Assistance in providing technical accounting input into financial models used to drive industry funding decisions
• Providing technical advice and guidance with regard to the application of IFRS, FReM and Network Rail group accounting policies
• Providing additional cover for treasury accounting and financial analyst roles in the team

Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications required for the Senior Financial Accountant role:

Essential -

• Qualified Accountant (CCAB qualification-preferably ACA)
• Extensive knowledge of IFRS and statutory accounts
• Experience of preparing or auditing FTSE 100 or similar statutory accounts
• Ability to analyse data, present results and lead a meeting on that analysis

Desirable -

• BMIS knowledge
• Substantial post qualification experience.

Benefits of the Senior Financial Accountant role:

• Competitive salary
• Choice of contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave package
• Bonus scheme
• Annual 75% subsidy on season tickets costing up to £3333 (to a maximum amount of £2,500)
• Flexible working

Closing date for this Senior Financial Accountant role: 25 January 2019, late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

If this Senior Financial Accountant sounds right for you, apply now.

It is a requirement of the Senior Financial Accountant​ role to live within 90 minutes commuting time of The Quadrant Milton Keynes.