Financial Accountant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis are recruiting for a global and well-established Professional Services West Yorkshire business to secure a Financial Accountant. This role is a well-rounded position, focusing on month-end and year-end activities, balance sheet reconciliations, VAT returns and loads of project work to get your teeth stuck into.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role is responsible for providing high-quality accounting services across a broad range of responsibilities. The successful candidate will deliver technical guidance and financial analysis in line with relevant accounting standards and legal requirements, ensuring work is completed accurately, reliably, and within required time frames.
What will you be doing?
- You will take ownership of key aspects of financial reporting and balance sheet controls, assuming end-to-end responsibility for selected month-end and year-end activities.
- Identifying and implementing process improvements to strengthen the control environment and enhance the quality of financial insights available for decision-making.
- Preparing and ensuring the accuracy of VAT reporting across several entities.
- Providing detailed information to external statutory auditors during audit processes.
- Preparation of reliable quarterly management accounts for multiple business units, as well as compiling annual trial balances and financial statements for entities within the UK-based group and internationally.
- Reconciling all balance sheet accounts for the relevant entities.
- You will help develop, implement, and maintain a new model for the regular reconciliation of EMEA intercompany balances
What skills are we looking for?
- Qualified candidate ACA, ACCA, CIMA
- Industry experience - at least 3 years post qualified.
- Experience working with multi-entity businesses, particularly with overseas EMEA entities.
- A confident communicator who enjoys business partnering
- Experience with project work - process improvement and tool development
What's on offer?
- A competitive salary of £55,000-£60,000
- Life Assurance
- Health Insurance
- 25 days of annual leave with bank holidays off
- Hybrid working pattern
Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
