Financial Accountant

Salary/Rate:£55000 - £60000 per annum + 10% bonus
Job type:Perm
Location:Sheffield, South Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis are recruiting for Financial Accountant for a role based in Sheffield City Centre, South Yorkshire. This position is with a multi-billion pound global business within the service and consultancy industries. They are a growing business with two offices across the UK, you'll be overseeing the statutory reporting and group intercompany reconciliations, alongside mentoring of the team and business partnering across departments with various stakeholders both UK and overseas.

This role would be ideal for someone who's making a second move from Practice, or someone looking for a step up from their current financial/group accountant role that can offer more responsibilities, variety and further career development.

What will you be doing?

  • Assisting with month-end management reporting
  • Preparation of annual statutory accounts
  • Act as a point of contact during the annual audit and R&D return processes
  • Ensure timely balance sheet reconciliations (sales ledger, CAPEX, control accounts)
  • Maintain and optimise intercompany reconciliations
  • Support the reconciliation of fixed asset registers across five entities
  • Assist with preparation of monthly/quarterly VAT/GST/sales tax returns

What skills are we looking for?

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA)
  • Experience working within a large group business structure
  • Thorough understanding statutory reporting
  • Technical knowledge and excellent eye for detail
  • Clear communication and experience working closely with non-finance colleagues
  • Practice trained candidate

What's on offer?

  • Competitive salary of £60,000
  • 10% annual bonus
  • Progression and development opportunities
  • Private healthcare
  • Hybrid working, 2 days on site - with flexible start and finish times
  • 33 days of holiday leave

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.

Job ref: IE/6486Post Date: 05.01.26

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