About this role
Location: Milton Keynes (Onsite)
Salary: £55,000 Plus bonus
Are you an ACA or ACCA-qualified accountant currently working in audit and considering your first move into industry?
This is an excellent opportunity to make that move, joining a highly regarded and ambitious organisation with a complex financial structure and a reputation for high standards, innovation and operational excellence. Working as part of an established Finance team, you'll play an important role in maintaining the integrity of financial reporting, strengthening financial controls and supporting the month-end and year-end reporting processes.
This position would particularly suit someone making their first move from practice, looking to take the technical knowledge developed in audit and apply it in a commercially focused finance environment. Reporting into the wider Finance function, you will take responsibility for a range of financial accounting activities, ensuring the accuracy of financial information and compliance with relevant accounting standards.
Key responsibilities
- Preparing and maintaining balance sheet reconciliations across multiple entities, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
- Investigating and resolving reconciliation differences, aged balances and unexplained variances.
- Taking ownership of lease accounting under IFRS 16, including maintaining lease registers and associated reconciliations.
- Preparing and reviewing month-end accruals and prepayment journals.
- Supporting month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring financial information is accurate and delivered to deadlines.
- Reviewing expenditure and identifying potential lease arrangements requiring capitalisation.
- Providing analysis and commentary on significant balance sheet movements.
- Supporting external audit requirements, preparing schedules and providing supporting documentation.
- Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting procedures and internal controls.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards, including FRS 102 and IFRS 16.
Key Requirements
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification (or be recently qualified).
- A background in external audit, ideally with experience auditing larger or more complex organisations.
- A good understanding of financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end processes.
- Exposure to IFRS 16 and FRS 102, or a willingness to develop your technical knowledge in these areas.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to investigate financial discrepancies.
- Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to your work.
- The confidence to work with stakeholders across different areas of the business.
- A proactive attitude and an interest in improving processes and controls.
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