Description
Financial Accountant
Coventry
6 months
My client is a leading utilities client based in Financial Accountant to work at their main offices in Coventry. The role will support the General Accounting Manager in providing comprehensive financial information. Ensuring appropriate financial control with a particular emphasis on timely, accurate and complete reporting, to stringent deadlines along with input to the month-end accounting process.
Responsibilities
- Provide financial analysis. Support financial decision-making information by collecting, analysing, investigating, and reporting financial data.
- Deal with complex and non-standard ad-hoc requests in order to support the production of performance information as and when required
- Contribute to the month end process, ensuring the data used is consistent and accurate, the appropriateness of all inputs and outputs, and the completeness, consistency and accuracy of all data. Ensure accounting entries are appropriately classified in accordance with internal policy, accounting standards, nature of expenditure or form of control.
- Support Finance Managers in establishing, maintaining and monitoring the financial control framework, ensuring compliance with all appropriate controls.
- Support relevant business stakeholders in Reporting, understanding and quantifying the financial risks and opportunities for their respective areas.
- Proactively contribute to the development of a highly motivated, innovative and customer-focused finance team. Support Finance Managers in meeting/exceeding all relevant targets and strategic objectives within the business unit(s).
- As appropriate, to support the delivery of change across Finance and the business, embracing new ways of working and owning delivery of key outcomes to drive the improvement of long-term business capability.
Skills and Experience
- Experienced Financial Accountant with experience in a large corporate environment
- Fully qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent
- Experience of reporting financial information to board level
- SAP and BI experience would be useful
- Strong MS Excel skills