Job description
Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a Financial Accountant to join a rapidly growing FS business in LeedsThis is an excellent opportunity for a qualified Accountant, ideally ACA / ACCA / CIMA to work within a fast paced Finance team and your responsibilities will include:-
Taking ownership of the month end close process, working with stakeholders across the business to ensure accurate accounting for assigned retailer portfolios. Own the associated balance sheet reconciliations ensuring high quality support is in place and support monthly balance sheet reporting and analysis
Supporting the Management Accounting Senior Manager with monthly reporting and detailed reviews
Providing insightful analysis of the actuals to the business, including assisting Commercial Finance in understanding the drivers behind reported results
Leading the change programme within financial accounting, working with project owners across the business to complete accurate impact assessments of the strategic and operational change projects on accounting processes
Working with owners across the financial accounting team to build or adapt impacted processes and communicate any accounting impact of the project to business owners
Ensuring all deliverables adhere to the Financial Control Framework and contribute to the delivery of continuous process and control improvements for assigned areas of responsibility
Requirements
ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
Working knowledge of IFRS
High attention to detail, problem solving skills and a desire to understand the wider implications of decisions for the business
Ability to work with non finance teams
Experience of implementing and embedding new or improved finance processes
Strong Excel skills
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.
