Financial Accountant

Full Job Description

As a Financial Accountant, you will be part of the UK&I Controlling function, a dynamic team incorporating controls and assurance, financial reporting and accounting services. These roles focus on balance sheet control and income statement management and analysis. You will be integral in supporting the Senior Financial Accountant in implementing improvements in processes and procedures and help drive efficiencies in cost management. You will be responsible for fulfilment of financial responsibilities across customer contracts, ensuring accounts are reported accurately and reconciled on a timely basis. You will be key in driving key financial transactional processes, with particular focus on assessing and anticipating finance-related needs and being proactive in communicating them to relevant key customer and stakeholders. integral to this role is delivery of value-added financial services to Account Leadership and Customers that reflects the business objectives of the organisation.

- Work within a robust internal financial controls framework, completing Controls Self-Assessments, ensuring control procedures are adhered to and Financial Controls recommendations are implemented.
- Completion of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring compliance with the UK&I reconciliation requirements, and drive accuracy in financial reporting by proactively ensuring reviewer recommendations are implemented
- Support the external audit, Group and UK&I internal audits and Financial Controls & Assurance reviews
- Perform Month-End Close cycle for all allocated accounts
- Perform Month-End Close activities, including the calculation, review and processing of all accruals, prepayments, revenue related transactions across customer contracts.
- Support the Senior Financial Accountant in the review of Overdue Accounts Receivable, and Trade Working Capital reports and take corrective action where required.
- Assist in the investigation and explanation of deviations from Forecasts
- Run open purchase order report weekly and review all open orders keeping aged POs to a minimum
- Support Senior Financial Accountant in Key Account Managers/Directors Business Reviews and support Finance Business Partners in customer reporting activities
- Balance sheet control activities, including preparation of prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, contract receivables, provisions
- Income Statement control activities, including analytical review procedures, customer profitability analysis, payroll review, overhead management
- Working with the Senior Financial Accountant to implement financial controls, processes and efficiency improvements across the finance function