Description
Financial Accountant
Major Utilities client is looking for an experienced Accountant to ensure accounting records are accurate and appropriately support month end, half year, and year end reporting.
Key Accountabilities
Direct
- Effectively execute month end accounting processes, including
- Intercompany mismatch correction and settlement.
- System interfaces into SAP.
- Journal postings.
- Supervise the monthly delivery of the close programme, managing and escalating delivery risk as appropriate to the Process Manager General Ledger.
Indirect
- Continuous review and refinement of General Ledger Standard Operating procedures for onshore and offshore.
- Engage proactively with TCS to manage service quality on the close timetable and tasks so that service quality evolves over time.
- Role model PeX methodology through proactively identifying process improvement opportunities, escalating process blockers, and implementing solution methodologies jointly with other stakeholders where appropriate
- Role model service as a key part of all processes, ensuring service offering is provided in a way that is reliable, responsive, and easy to deal with.
- Ensure all processes are documented and assessed through the process assessment methodology.
- Ensure processes are executed in accordance with relevant SoX and business controls.
Technical Competency
- Reporting financial information
- Accounting and reporting pronouncements
- Governance, risk and internal control frameworks
- Transaction and close process management
- SAP
- Business software and applications
- Codeblock
Experience Essential
- Relevant finance experience in a shared service finance function.
- Finance role in a SOx environment
- Past experience working with offshore contracts.
Relevant
- Process optimisation
- Technical/specialist accounting
Qualifications
- Essential: Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA, CPA, ACA, or ACCA)
- Desirable: Fully Qualified Accountant (CIMA, CPA, ACA, or ACCA)
If you wish to apply for the above position, please call me or email .
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 24 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.
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