Assistant Financial Accountant

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Responsible for stewardship of designated balance sheets areas across all legal entities
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager with financial statements by producing accurate working papers and supporting disclosures
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager with audit queries relating to assigned balance sheet areas and processes. Develop relationships with external audit team and ensure the time deliverable of audit requests.
• Responsible for central finance processes (including fixed assets, lease accounting, prepayments etc), processing of financial transactions, reporting of related p/l and balance sheet, ensure control
• Continuously review and develop processes in order to achieve efficiencies whilst enhancing quality of output
• Responsible for accurate completion and submission of govt and tax related returns, including VAT, ONS, CIS and PSA
• Work alongside and support the Financial Reporting Manager with financial matters as they arise
• Support technological enhancements and implementations to improve financial information and minimise risk.
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager and assist with tasks ensuring compliance with internal risk and control
• Develop relationships with stakeholders across the business, enhancing operations knowledge which will support the improvement of internal finance processes
• Review all new vendor requests, ensuring compliance with internal control framework. Create new vendor master data in a timely manner to support business continuity and enables accurate financial reporting
• Review all new customer requests, ensuring compliance with internal control framework. Create new customer master data in a timely manner to support business continuity and enables financial reporting
• Responsible for fixed asset and lease accounting master data. Review to ensure compliant with internal accounting policies and financial accounting standards.
• Responsible for statutory hierarchies and chart of accounts. Including the creation of new GL Accounts, ensuring any changes does not jeopardise integrity of financial and management accounting
• Responsible for all financial dimensions held within Dynamics, including the creation new requested dimensions, ensuring any changes do not jeopardise integrity of financial and management accounting
• Implement controls that are compliant with the internal risk and control framework
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager and assist with tasks ensuring compliance with internal risk and control
• With support of Financial Reporting Manager, implement a controlled process of change in respect to Master Data
• Develop relationships with stakeholders across the business, enhancing operations knowledge which will support the improvement of internal finance processes