Corporate Finance Accountant - New Categories Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance Accountant

Our client is a leading international organisation, using technology and innovation to reinvent a global industry. We are looking for a Corporate & Indirect Tax Accountant to join this exciting journey on a 3-month contract basis (inside IR35).The role is required to support accounting, reconciliation and reporting of statutory income statements, balance sheet and cashflow.

Responsibilities

• To carry out month end task in line with month end timetable including:
  • Income statement reallocation.
  • Prepayment releases and reconciliation.
  • Balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Work with GL to ensure cash allocations from bank shadow accounts.
  • Review of accounts classifications.
  • Assist in reviewing and investigating P&L and balance sheet balances and providing variance analysis as appropriate

• Statutory accounting and audit:
  • To assist in completing half year and year end disclosure schedules
  • To assist in producing any required audit files both from a Group perspective and local statutory perspective.
  • To take responsibility for production of certain notes within the statutory accounting process.
  • To work on the creation of a parallel ledger for the new categories’ companies.

• To ensure Purchase to Pay controls are in place and effective including SOx controls:
  • Monthly GRIR review and reporting, appropriate approvals for aged items are obtained in a timely manner
  • Monthly distribution and follow up on VIM report to ensure aged items are investigated and resolved
  • Bi-annual distribution and compilation of VIM report and Open/Inactive PO reports and VIM cut off review at half year and year end
  • Bi-weekly strategic vendor reconciliation to supplier statement for both internal and external vendors to ensure aged and discrepancies are cleared
  • To assist and work closely with Controls Manager to review duplicate vendors, vendor master data, exceptions reporting etc

• To perform monthly review of accounts receivable and payable including:
  • Investigating intercompany mismatches and resolution.
  • Monitoring AP and AR balances to ensure proper classifications and aged, unusual debit and credit balances are investigated and resolved.

• External report including:
  • Timely submission of Office of National Statistics (ONS) reporting
  • Bi-annual Payment Practice Reporting (PPR) submission

Essential requirements

• Degree educated with part qualified professional accountancy qualification (i.e.CA/ACCA/CIMA).
• A good understanding of group and corporate finance principles
• Experience of balance sheet reconciliations, forecasting and analysis.
• Ability to manage a high volume of data and present in a simple, organised, innovative and impactful way using all current systems to simplify and automate information management. i.e., SAP/ BI/BPC.
• BPC/SAP experience
• Ability to prioritise and is resilient.
• Ability to identify process and reporting improvements and proactively implement solutions.
• Ability to work independently managing stakeholders across a wide range of location and markets.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills are required to influence and challenge.
• Maintains excellent working relationships with all stakeholders and is a team player.