Financial Accountant

Sewell Wallis is excited to be representing a high growth Sheffield, South Yorkshire based business in their search for a Financial Accountant.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a technically strong ACA/ACCA qualified accountant to join a market leading business. The position offers broad exposure across technical accounting, month and year end reporting and external audit and would suit a first or second mover from practice or someone with equivalent industry experience.

If you're ACA/ACCA qualified and seeking a fantastic Financial Accountant opportunity within industry, I'd love to hear from you!

What will you be doing?

• Produce statutory accounts for all eight group companies, including preparation of two group consolidations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely submission.
• Act as a key participant in the year-end process with significant ownership of critical deliverables.
• Serve as a core member of the client-side audit team, managing efficient audit support, evidence preparation, and issue resolution.
• Prepare complex technical accounting papers-such as Going Concern assessments, impairment reviews, and other ad-hoc technical analyses-providing clear recommendations aligned to IFRS/FRS 102 requirements.
• Help elevate statutory and annual reports to "best-in-class" through improved disclosures, narrative quality, and alignment to evolving reporting standards.
• Working with the Management Accountant, be involved in the monthly Group balance sheet reconciliation process, delivering high-quality reconciliations and robust supporting evidence each month, including over judgmental areas of the balance sheet
• Design, implement & lead continuous monthly processes to determine internal staff costs for capitalisation, including defining capitalisable projects and validating time records in collaboration with Project Managers and Engagement Managers.

What skills will you need?

• Qualified in ACCA/ACA
• Ideal for a first or second time mover from practice, or an industry mover with significant year-end audit & accounts preparation experience, proficient in IFRS reporting
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with experience preparing or auditing statutory accounts and technical papers.
• Deep understanding of and experience with IAS 38 (capitalisation of development costs)
• Detailed knowledge & experience of statutory accounts preparation
• Confident working with complex data, multiple entities, and consolidation structures.
• Able to build strong relationships across finance and operational teams.
• Proactive, organised, and able to drive continuous improvement in processes, controls, and reporting quality.
• Finance system implementation experience is a plus, but not essential.

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working - 2 days in office
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional personal day off + a charity day
• Westfield Health + other healthcare benefits
• Long-term service reward - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay, enhanced paternity pay, long service award, long service annual leave
• Company awards programme
• Secure on-site parking.

Please apply below, or for more information, contact Lawrie Bacon.

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.