Financial Accountant

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