Financial Accountant

SF Recruitment is pleased to be working in partnership with a local Nottinghamshire business who are looking to recruit a Financial Accountant.

The organisation are a well known employer within the Nottingham area, taking pride in offering an excellent working culture alongside attractive employee benefits propositions.

About the role:

The Financial Accountant will work as part of a small and highly efficient team to support production of accurate and timely financial statements to management and other stakeholders.

Main duties and responsibilities include:

- Preparation and review of departmental P&L reports for monthly distribution
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Preparation and co-ordination of year-end schedules
- Monthly VAT returns
- Payroll journals, analysis and month end reconciliation
- Manage and update the Fixed Assets register, monitoring and controlling spend on capital projects to ensure they don't overrun their budgets.
- Preparation of 16-week cash flow forecast including CAPEX spend tracking and forecasting.
- Assisting with the preparation of budget information
- Ownership of ONS requests for information and surveys.
- Preparation of the annual PSA return
- Management of the companies CDS account
- Provide support to the UK Financial Controller as required
- Ad hoc analyses and reports
- Any other ad-hoc duties that fall within the scope of the role

About you:

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years' experience working within an accounts department within a company with revenue of at least £25m per annum.
Other skills and experience required

- ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualified/Part-qualified (though strong QBE candidates will also be considered).
- Strong all-round communicator
- Strong time management skills and ability to work independently
- Hands on and driven with a genuine interest to understanding how the business works
- Adaptable and flexible approach to work
- Must be self-motivated and able to organise & manage their own workload within an extremely busy accounts department.
- Advanced user of Excel would be advantageous. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential.