Key skills
ERP
About this role
Role Overview
- Support the Group Finance function in completing a one-off programme of balance sheet reconciliation and strengthening financial control across multiple group entities following the implementation of a new finance system
- Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations for the UK entity and overseas group entities
- Investigate historic unreconciled balances, identify root causes, and prepare adjustment journals where required to bring accounts to a reconciled position
- Liaise with overseas finance managers to obtain explanations and supporting information for balances recorded in local ledgers
- Review branch loan balances and assess opportunities to clear balances
- Assist with the review of overseas entity statutory financial statements prepared by local external accountants or auditors
- Prepare audit-ready supporting schedules for key balance sheet accounts and assist with responding to audit queries
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or equivalent experience
- Strong financial accounting and balance sheet reconciliation experience
- Experience working with multi-entity or international groups
- Excellent Excel skills and strong attention to detail
- Experience working in a project-based organisation or with project accounting structures would be advantageous
- Understanding of accounting issues such as project accruals, deferred income, and work-in-progress balances
- Ability to investigate complex accounting issues
- Experience with ERP systems (experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 desirable but not essential)
- Strong organisational skills and ability to work independently
Tech Stack
- ERP
Benefits
- We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources
- Opportunities to work cross functionally
- Space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance
- Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the UnMind app
- Competitive salary
- Contributory pension scheme