Financial Accountant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is partnering with a global professional services business in the heart of Leeds, West Yorkshire to find an ambitious and driven Financial Accountant.
As a Financial Accountant, you'll be involved with both accounting duties and industry specific finance functions, alongside getting stuck into project work around process improvement. You'll be overseeing financial reporting for multiple entities, reconciliations and assisting with month-end. This is a really exciting opportunity be in a hands-on role and to make your mark on internal processes and drive culture in a well-performing global company.
The business encourages a forward thinking way of working, with collaboration at the heart of everything! You'll be joining a team of professionals who enjoy their work and provide a key function within the business. They are looking for a like-minded individual to develop into this role and make it their own.
What will you be doing?
- Management accounts for 5 business units
- Compilation of annual TB and financial statements
- Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts
- UK VAT returns
- Intercompany recharges
- Involvement with month end and journal postings
- Business partnering with internal stakeholders across the business (globally)
- Process improvement on day-to-day tasks and particularly enhancing the control environment
What skills are we looking for?
- Qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA
- Ambitious and driven
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong Excel skills
- Significant experience creating new processes and leading through change to delivery
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary of between £50,000-£60,000
- 25 days of annual leave with bank holidays off
- Hybrid working and flexible start/finish
- Social events
- Health Insurance
- Modern, purpose built offices with parking nearby
- Easy to commute to on the train, 10 minute walk from Leeds station!
Send us your CV below, or contact Lawrie Bacon 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.
