362 Finance jobs in Watford

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Financial Reporting Analyst to join a company based in High Wycombe. This role offers excellent benefits and fantastic progression opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively in the Finance Data & Reporting team, providing perspectives on the existing reporting suite, and medium to long term objectives of the team
• Develop and maintain automated PowerBI reporting, including but not limited to dashboards, reporting workflows
• Collaborate with teams across Finance, to understand reporting requirements and deliver suitable solutions to information and reporting needs, while ensuring consistent adherence to quality standards and reporting governance
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimisation in data management and reporting
• Lead projects related to data and reporting automation, from planning and execution to monitoring and evaluation
• Support the Finance and Procurement teams in their PowerBI adoption journey by knowledge sharing sessions, and in day-to-day interactions

Requirements:

• Experience in finance roles
• Full or part qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Confident developer of PowerBI reporting
• Advanced problem-solving skills
• Understanding of financial and management reporting requirements, processes and data structures

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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Financial Reporting Manager to join a fast growing, multinational business based in Maidenhead. This FTSE listed business is enjoying soaring profits and is looking to attract dynamic, driven candidates who can experience outstanding trajectory in their careers across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Provide timely and accurate management accounts, financial statements and variance analysis.
• Ensure readiness and assist in delivering successful half year and year end audits, being a key contact for the auditors.
• Lead and deliver ad hoc & project-based work.
• Manage and develop your direct team and assist Group Finance Manager and Head of Group Finance in the overall leadership of Financial Reporting.
• Own and evolve technical accounting and reporting for areas such as revenue recognition, IFRS 15, Consolidation, intercompany.
• Ownership of assurance and reporting of complex balance sheet reconciliations and key controls for several areas.
• Identify & deliver continuous improvement in finance processes and reporting.
• Assist in producing technical papers and reports for Senior Management, including analysis and commentary.
• Keeping up to date with audit, regulation, and industry developments.
• Working with key stakeholders to ensure processes and controls are correct and being applied appropriately.

Requirements:

• Previous management experience.
• Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA
• Confident and proactive, professional, approach.
• Strong technical accounting & analytical skills

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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Financial Reporting Analyst to join a company based in High Wycombe. This role offers excellent benefits and fantastic progression opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively in the Finance Data & Reporting team, providing perspectives on the existing reporting suite, and medium to long term objectives of the team
• Develop and maintain automated PowerBI reporting, including but not limited to dashboards, reporting workflows
• Collaborate with teams across Finance, to understand reporting requirements and deliver suitable solutions to information and reporting needs, while ensuring consistent adherence to quality standards and reporting governance
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimisation in data management and reporting
• Lead projects related to data and reporting automation, from planning and execution to monitoring and evaluation
• Support the Finance and Procurement teams in their PowerBI adoption journey by knowledge sharing sessions, and in day-to-day interactions

Requirements:

• Experience in finance roles
• Full or part qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• Confident developer of PowerBI reporting
• Advanced problem-solving skills
• Understanding of financial and management reporting requirements, processes and data structures

By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your personal data.

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards (IFRS/GAAP) and relevant regulations.
• Perform detailed financial analysis, including variance analysis and commentary.
• Assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts and manage the general ledger.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Develop and maintain financial models and reports.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements in financial reporting.
• Collaborate with other departments to provide financial support and insights.

• Fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Proven experience in financial reporting and accounting roles.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS/GAAP.
• Proficiency in accounting software (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and advanced Excel skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Financial Reporting Manager to join a fast growing, multinational business based in Maidenhead. This FTSE listed business is enjoying soaring profits and is looking to attract dynamic, driven candidates who can experience outstanding trajectory in their careers across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Provide timely and accurate management accounts, fin.

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Financial Reporting Accountant Fluent Chinese (Mandarin)

City of London / Hybrid

Permanent

Up to £60k + bonus

Are you interested in working for a company where you can achieve professional growth? My client needs a part qualified accountant with some financial services reporting experience. They are happy to train the right candidate.

We are working with a financial services company based in Centra.

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Join our journey to create a new experience for The National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

A bit about the role…

An exciting opportunity in a key and broad financial role within an innovative multibillion pound business. The Financial Reporting Accountants are key members of the team delivering the financial records of Allwyn Entertainment Limited and its fellow group companies, monthly management reporting, asset management, balance sheet reporting, financial controls and regulatory reporting.

There are two Financial Reporting Accountants within the Financial Control team, both of these roles are expected to learn all aspects of financial control, and to be able to support each other to ensure that the requirements of the Company are fulfilled. We believe in providing incumbents the fullest opportunity to get as much experience as possible across all of the financial statements, and being able to work collaboratively to ensure that the responsibilities are delivered to an excellent standard in a timely manner.

• This role sits within the Financial Control team, a team of 8 which has primary responsibility for ensuring that the businesses financial records are sound, there are robust accounting and reporting processes, gatekeeping and application of Allwyn’s accounting policies, filing of our 6 UK entity accounts on time including one set complete under full IFRS and a public listed Financing Company, in addition to completing regulatory reporting to our banks and to the Gambling Commission.
• Key responsibilities for the team are:
• Financial Reporting
• Quarterly reporting to Group for consolidation
• Statutory Reporting
• Covenant Reporting
• Regulatory Reporting including our annual Good Causes final reconciliation
• Custodians of the balance sheet accounts
• Managing financial controls
• Support with budgeting and forecasting
• Delivering value and insight

What you’ll be doing…

• Responsible for routine month end processes and journals, ensuring all accounting adjustments are made, and costs are appropriately captured and reported on a periodic basis in accordance with IFRS
• Ownership and proactive management of the reporting of fixed assets including additions, disposals, assets under construction, depreciation and amortisation and impairment.
• Ability to write technical accounting papers as required.
• Ownership of lease accounting to include embedded lease reviews and annual IBR reviews.
• Deputise for the Financial Reporting Manager.
• Line management of one Trainee Accountant.
• Supporting the IFRS Manager with documenting accounting policies, ensuring the policies adhere to IFRS but also apply the business requirements of Allwyn.
• Ownership of the GRNI accrual including active management of the aged balances by liaising with stakeholders to ensure closed down in a timely manner
• Preparation of all balance sheet accounts (excluding Trust, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable) ensuring that they are fully reconciled on time, with all balances substantiated and reviewed in line with SOX.
• Work very closely with the Commercial Finance team to ensure that their reporting is robust, review business cases and review balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support with implementing and monitoring of the new balance sheet reconciliation and journal policy
• Liaise with other departments as appropriate to ensure that all relevant considerations (legal, corporation tax, VAT, lottery duty etc.) have been taken into