MacKenzie King are delighted to be recruiting a Statutory Accountant for a well-established, world leading company, based in Witham, Essex. The successful candidate will be working within a small, centralised team responsible for the timely and accurate production of annual financial statements, regulatory reports and returns.

Key tasks

• To be a client service representative of Finance, maintaining regular contact with clients to provide a value-added service through process improvement and query resolution aided by close working relationships with offshore providers.
• Review and production of annual financial statements, including liaison with external auditors during the course of their annual audit.
• Corporation tax and deferred tax calculations for group reporting and agreeing to local returns.
• Technical accounting query resolution and ad-hoc investigations/analysis as and when required.
• Preparation and control of legal entity quarterly forecasts for allocated countries and companies.
• Production of monthly/quarterly/annual regulatory and governmental reports.
• Produce consolidated financial statements.
• Assisting with monitoring company balance sheets to ensure any foreign exchange exposure is kept to a minimum.
• Pro-actively suggest improvements and develop best practices within Finance to improve the cost-effectiveness, efficiency and added value of the services provided.

Essential:

• Experience of Practice Accounting
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and deliver results to short timescales.
• Excellent IT Skills (including Excel and Word)
• ACA, ACCA or equivalent or close to qualification
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to maintain clear lines of communication with various internal and external stakeholders
• Accuracy with good attention to detail and ability to check work of self and others
• Flexible and team player – develops close partnerships with onshore and offshore colleagues

Desired:

• Relevant exposure to Statutory reporting gained by working in a financial services environment
• Experience of IFRS and US GAAP