Reporting to the FRC Financial Reporting Team Senior Accountant, the role offers excellent opportunities to develop accounts preparation and analytical review experience.

Duties and responsibilities:

    
Statutory Accounts

• Preparing statutory financial statements and quarterly management accounts.
• Liaising and supplying external auditors’ information regarding year-end consolidated financial statements and statutory financial statements.
• Demonstrating a detailed understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards, applicable local accounting standards, local legislation, reporting disclosures and group accounting policies, ensuring they are applied and upheld.

Financial Controls

• Compliance with monthly, quarterly and annual reporting requirements, ensuring financial controls are addressed within deadlines set.
• Preparation of reconciliations and analysis with relevant and appropriate back up and critical analysis of the balances in significant entities and assistance with review of Associate Accountants work.
• Assistance in testing internal controls on a monthly basis.

General Responsibilities

• Helping to establish best practice, standardisation and ways of working for all legal entities.
• Pro-active participation in / lead the coaching activities to the Associate Accountants within the team.
• Identifying areas of process improvements and propose potential solutions.
• Working closely with the wider Finance Team to resolve any financial reporting queries in a timely and effective manner.
• Providing training, where required, on standard ways of working to colleagues within the wider Finance Team.
• Other ad hoc tasks and projects as required.

The ideal applicant will have an interest in legal entity statutory accounting, be a self-starter and have a logical approach to problem solving. Experience should include knowledge of IFRS, FRS 101 statutory accounts preparation, financial controls environment, and audit processes. This role would suit a fully qualified Accountant or someone in the final stages of their qualification.