The Role

As a Senior Financial Accountant you will Assist the Director of Financial Accounts. You will be an active member of the financial accounts team and will have strong technical and analytical skills. You will have a solid background in financial accounting and have the ability to provide a positive impact from day one in this role. The team are friendly and work as a close unit, providing an excellent service to the professional fee earners (chartered surveyors).

Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reports
• Assisting with preparation of Annual Financial Statements for all companies delivered on time and to a high standard
• Reporting to Paris on all matters of Finance Permanent Control
• Compliance with IFRS and reporting to parent company in Paris
• FCA Returns and compliance with internal and external regulations
• Treasury management, and maximising the Groups’ interest income including foreign exchange planning, and posting of accrued interest
• Cash flow forecasting including weekly and monthly cash flow actual verses forecast reporting
• Risk Mapping reporting for Compliance and Paris reams
• Maintain of all areas of fixed assets register and those that fall under IFRS16, including posting of journals and reconciliations
• Assisting with producing monthly and quarterly VAT returns
• Ensure all procedures and policies for the finance department are kept up to date
• Liaising with non-financial members of staff, providing financial information and advice
• Liaising with both internal and external auditors , ensuring the files are up to date
• Assisting with intercompany reporting
• Monthly journal postings and reconciliations, and maintaining integrity of nominal ledger
• Periodically undertaking audits, involving the examination of the organisation's accounts, analysing risk, inspecting the organisation's current practices, investigating any financial irregularities and recommending improvements
• National Statistics reports
• Advising on areas of improvement
• Any other ad hoc duties as and when they arise

Person specification

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required  
• Solid Accounting experience

Experience

• Qualified or Part qualified accountant with a view to qualifying within 1 year
• Experience of producing reports and financial statements
• Good IT skills essential. Knowledge of a windows based finance package such as Dynamics Sage or Sun would be preferable although not essential for a quick learner. Training will be provided on Dynamics.
• Good knowledge of IFRS