Financial Accountant

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 to 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?

• Take ownership for aspects of financial reporting and balance sheet controls, taking 'end-to-end' responsibility for certain Month/Year-end activities:
• Creating process improvements, suggesting changes to enhance the control environment and improve decision making insight
• Provision of reliable quarterly management accounts for a range of units
• Compilation of annual TB and financial statements for certain units within the UK-based group, and elsewhere, ready for both the Finance Manager's review and subsequent external audit, ensuring accuracy and complete analysis.
• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts, often unguided, for the relevant units, as well as other key accounts, including distributions and payroll costs.
• Development, implementation and maintenance of a new model for regular reconciliation of EMEA intercompany balances; complete resolution of reconciling items to ensure they are cleared in a timely manner and to ensure that processes/controls are adapted/implemented to prevent recurrence where feasible.
• Own accuracy of, and prepare, VAT reporting for various units
• Provision of data to external statutory auditors during their audits, ensuring this meets expected standards, in addition to being able to guide them through the analysis and hold submission of key content needed for auditors.
• Preparation and delivery of various regular reports to internal stakeholders.
• Preparation/input of various monthly journals for the month-end routine.
• Calculation and billing of certain shared overhead costs to fellow group entities.
• Ensure that banking procedures are secure and controlled and that any gaps in controls are addressed.
• Hold responsibility for banking authorisation and ensure that payments are protected and any missing components are addressed.
• Provide a critical approach to all transactions and recommend improvements. Identify errors/potential errors.

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-£55,000
• 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.