Senior Financial Accountant

Our client is currently seeking a skilled Senior Financial Accountant for a contract role based in either Exeter or London – with 1/2 days per week in the office, with the occasional travel to the other offices.

This is a 12-month contract with a competitive day rate of £370 - £450 per day Inside IR35, dependent on experience.

Job Purpose:

The role sits in the Financial Control & Reporting team within Customer Finance. Financial Control & Reporting (FC&R) is a large team. The team consolidate various submissions from across the business partner teams to generate our financial reporting, planning and forecasts. They also provide regular regulatory reporting to external organisations and are the key point of contact for auditors and Corporate UK team, as they are also responsible for the financial controls across the department. Allied to this, FC&R also contains a Corporate Cost business partner team, which focuses on the UK central support functions, and the Customers Risk Management team, which focus on everything from macro business-level risks to fraud controls in our billing systems.

Key Responsibilities:

•            You will be responsible for ensuring a smooth financial close process that meets the requirements of the internal management reporting as well as the needs of a corporate stakeholders. This will include ensuring transactions are consistent with Group accounting policy (IFRS) and the outputs align with the needs of the business teams.

•            Month End includes some consolidation activities to report up to Group – posting of journals, ensuring that balance sheet movements are consistent with Income statements or Cash flow movements and talking through the monthly financial results with the Group Reporting team.

•            Acting as a point of contact for updates to the chart of accounts, cost centre structures and maintaining various Hierarchy mappings within the Anaplan reporting tool.

•            Consolidating the financial plans for Customers business. You will use the reporting system Anaplan to consolidate the forecasts and budgets covering Income statements, Cashflow and Balance sheets ensuring quality and consistency.

The ideal candidate will hold a:

•            Accounting qualification – Fully qualified (ACA/CIMA/ACCA)

•            Be able to demonstrate use of financial systems (SAP/Anaplan), strong analysis skills and experience in financial accounting.

•            You’ll be highly accountable with an attention to detail and resilience to work through issues.

•            Strong experience in Excel.

If you are interested in this excellent opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an initial telephone interview.