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Financial Accountant
- Posted 25 May 2022
- Salary £50000.00 - £55000.00 per annum
- LocationLondon
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Accounting & Finance
- ReferenceFA1_1653480851
- Contact NameSamuel Everton
Job description
The Company
My client is an internationally acclaimed fashion media company based in the West End.
The Role:
Reporting to the Central Finance Manager, you will be responsible for preparing all financial statements and completing all month-end duties and ensuring compliance with internal & external financial regulations. You will help to drive change, improve processes and increase efficiency. There will also be a commercial element with this role with business partnering and stakeholder engagement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Prepare accurate accounts for three of the company's head office functions, providing financial support to department management.
- Provide timely and accurate management support and analysis, identifying key issues including deviations from annual and quarterly plan and recommending remedial action where necessary
- Assist in the forecasting (3 forecasts a year) of central departments, circulation, production costs and promotion costs.
- Responsible for managing various intercompany accounts, transactions and reporting.
- Responsibility for various central charges
- Provide assistance with month end balance sheet work.
- Prepare quarterly VAT returns
- Assist with the statutory accounts preparation and audit.
- Responsible for managing one team member.
- Provide financial and business expertise to other ad-hoc projects.
- Opportunity for involvement in systems implementation and upgrades.
Qualifications / Previous experience:
- ACA/CA/ACCA qualified
- Practice trained (preferable Big 4)
- 3-5 years accounting experience
- Enthusiastic and motivated to improve processes
- Previous exposure to system implementations/improvements advantageous
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills