Financial Reporting Assurance Accountant

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Group Financial Reporting team who are the gatekeepers of finance across the Group. Responsibility for implementation and adherence to Group accounting policies is only part of it; the team play a key part in:

• Delivering the Groups external results and internal month end processes
• Accounting for complex areas and transactions
• Providing accounting guidance to regional finance teams
• Developing a robust control framework while driving excellent data quality for decision making
• Balance sheet contro l, review , and risk management
• Cash flow forecasting and management of capital expenditure
• Audit relationship management and statutory obligation compliance
• Management and identification of accounting risk and opportunity

The Financial Preporting Assurance Accountant role focuses on a number of areas.

Perform Expert Reviews

• Review the accounting for acquisitions and other complex transactions.
• Form part of the second line of defence over areas of accounting risk
• Assist in the delivery of accounting papers and audit committee documents over key accounting issues

Support and guidance

• Develop and maintain a strong technical expertise
• Assist regional finance teams with ad-hoc accounting queries
• Provide guidance for new accounting issues across the Group
  

External reporting

• Review of the Group’s financial statements and external tax report to ensure their accuracy and compliance with accounting and reporting standards
• Deliver robust quality control procedures over all areas of the Group’s external reporting

Qualifications

• Degree qualified with an appropriate professional acounting qualification (ACA, ACCA etc.)
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Experience of audit and statutory processes preferred
• Highly numerate with ability to quickly understand and challenge complex workpapers
• Professional scepticism with an ability to detect weaknesses in explanations and tenacity to track down an answer

Additional Information

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