Financial Accountant

Real Property Maintenance; Addlestone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Financial Accountant, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing urban life through your expertise in financial accounting. This exciting position offers the opportunity to work within a supportive team, contributing to significant projects that impact communities. You will be responsible for preparing statutory accounts, managing tax submissions, and utilizing advanced tools like PowerBI and SAP. With a focus on professional growth, you will collaborate with diverse teams and have the chance to drive improvements in financial processes. This role is perfect for someone eager to make a difference in a global organization while developing their skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in finance with strong statutory reporting skills.
• Professional accounting qualification required, AAT or ACCA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare statutory accounts and manage balance sheet reconciliations.
• Handle tax returns and submissions, including CIS calculations.
• Create and circulate key PowerBI reports to stakeholders.

Skills

Financial Accounting

Statutory Reporting

Excel

PowerBI

SAP

Communication Skills

Time Management

Analytical Skills

IFRS Knowledge

Education

Professional Accounting Qualification

AAT Qualification

ACCA or Similar Qualification

Tools

Excel

PowerBI

SAP

Job description

Company description:

Location: Addlestone, England, United Kingdom
Job ID: 76865

We Elevate... Quality of urban life

Our elevators, escalators, and moving walks safely transport more than two billion of us up and down buildings and across transportation hubs every day. As part of the Schindler team, you’ll discover meaningful work that enhances quality of life for communities and contribute to making places more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable for all. We combine innovation, safety, and high ethical standards, ensuring respect both among colleagues and for the world around us. By joining us, you don’t just become part of our success story; you help shape the future and continue our rich legacy that started back in 1874.

Job description:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and technical Financial Accountant to join our Accounting & Shared Services Team for Schindler UK&I. As a member of the Accounting & Shared Services function, the ideal candidate comes with a good grasp of financial accounting knowledge and is a key business contact for Group Accounting and Reporting team and key third-party expert partners. While this role focuses on financial accounting matters, the individual will also provide coverage for absent team members (management accounting and treasury; and vice versa). This role is an excellent chance for you to expand your existing skills in a large, global organisation within a territory that gets a lot of attention from the Europe Zone it reports into, as well as the Group Top Management. At Schindler, we have a great culture that is inclusive and supportive. There is potential for real growth both personally and professionally within the local and global Schindler organisation. You will get the opportunity to work with a great bunch of people and get supported in your development.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Statutory Accounts, Income Statements, Balance Sheet and Cashflow
• Perform balance sheet accounts reconciliations for designated area of responsibility.
• Monthly accruals for interest on loan and taxes; including deferment accounts.
• Tax returns preparation and submissions; includes CIS calculations and submissions to HMRC
• Dealing with Subcontractor (CIS deduction statements) and HMRC queries
• Concur (Expense system) - processing, supporting all member expense claims (monthly, weekly), queries
• Manage approval of new vendors
• Periodic (monthly, quarterly, half year and annual) Tagetik (Group) Reporting and data inputs as required for income statements, balance sheet and cashflow. This includes monthly actuals and quarterly forecast process
• Pulse (Corporate PowerBI) Reports: Grasp, create and circulate key reports to internal stakeholders.
• Capex reporting
• HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs) Returns and Office of National Statistics – maintaining register, ensuring compliance and on-time reporting
• Business Payment Practices and Performance Reporting to HMRC
• Work with Legal on statutory returns as appropriate, includes Group Tax reporting obligations

Candidate Requirements:

• Strong statutory reporting and financial accounting fundamentals
• Strong organization, excellent time management, planning and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
• At least 3 years experience in a finance environment
• Clear communication skills for both internal and external interactions
• Professional accounting qualification is required, studying (or willing to study) AAT qualification and progress to ACCA (or similar qualification) is of advantage
• Proficient use of Excel. PowerBI knowledge (or aptitude to learn) is a must
• SAP experience will be highly regarded
• Ability to multitask and work to tight deadlines
• Can work independently as well as part of a team
• Ability to review current process and think creatively to suggest and drive improvement and automation
• Enjoy working with people across finance and non-finance teams and be comfortable working in multiple accounting systems, and with a good work ethic
• Technical knowledge of latest IFRS, with regular maintenance
• Excellent work ethic, a collaborative approach across the departments is a must
• Confidence to communicate with all levels within the business and external parties such as banks
• Determination and flexibility to ensure all deadlines are met