Financial Accountant
- Recruiter
- RattrayParkin Ltd
- Location
- Northampton, Northamptonshire
- Salary
- £50,000 - £55,000
- Posted
- 19 May 2022
- Closes
- 26 May 2022
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant
- Category
- Consultancy Services
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
RattrayParkin are working with a private equity backed high growth service sector business based in Northampton seeking to appoint a Financial Accountant to join the team.
The business is award winning and achieved turnover of £120m last year. It is set to go beyond £200m this year with ambitions to capitalise on growth through further acquisitions.
The successful candidate will take ownership of acquisition accounting, statutory accounting, contracts as well as assisting with a variety of month end duties.
It would suit a dynamic individual with excellent attention to detail.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Prepare consolidation entries for the management & statutory accounts
- Prepare statutory accounts for entities within the group
- Acquisition accounting
- Support due diligence and pre-acquisition activity
- Preparation for post completion integration into finance
- Assist with Group Audit
- VAT returns
- Review balance sheet for group companies
- FCA returns
- Assist with financial reporting
- Annual reconciliation of contracts & own contract management process
About you:
- ACA / ACCA qualified
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Strong financial accounting background (practice or industry)
- No prior experience of acquisition accounting is required but must have theoretical knowledge or willingness/ability to learn quickly.