Financial Accountant

Eaton Syalon Ltd; East Midlands; Vor Ort; GBP 32.000 - 52.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Eaton Syalon Ltd is partnering with a high-growth, private equity-backed international manufacturing group to recruit a Financial Accountant into its expanding finance team. This role offers broad exposure to month-end reporting, financial controls, group reporting, cash management and operational finance, with projects to improve processes across the business.

You'll work with stakeholders to maintain accurate records and deliver timely management information, taking ownership as you progress

Qualifikationen

• Qualified or finalist ACCA/ACA/CIMA with strong accounting basics.
• Experience in financial accounting and month-end processes.
• Solid Excel skills and experience with ERP systems.

Aufgaben

• Perform regular bank reconciliations and cash book postings in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and national statistics reporting.
• Assist with maintaining trial balance, ensuring schedules are accurate and updated.
• Prepare and post monthly journals including accruals, prepayments and depreciation.
• Maintain and develop financial control documentation and improve reporting accuracy.
• Support development of robust financial controls across the finance function.

Kenntnisse

Excel

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Ausbildung

ACCA/ACA/CIMA finalist or newly qualified

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jobbeschreibung

Newly Qualified / Finalist (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Are you a newly qualified or finalist accountant looking for an opportunity to develop your career within a growing, ambitious and commercially focused business?

Eaton Syalon is partnering with a high-growth, private equity-backed international manufacturing group to recruit a Financial Accountant into its expanding finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that has experienced significant growth and transformation through strategic acquisitions, investment and international expansion, with ambitious plans for the future.

The role offers far more than traditional financial accounting. You'll gain broad exposure across month-end reporting, financial controls, group reporting, cash management and operational finance, alongside opportunities to get involved in projects and ongoing improvements across the business.

The Opportunity

Working closely with the wider finance team and operational stakeholders, you'll play an important role in maintaining accurate financial records, delivering timely management information and ensuring strong financial controls across the business.

The position offers a varied mix of core financial accounting, reporting and commercially focused responsibilities, making it particularly attractive to someone looking to broaden their experience and take greater ownership as their career develops.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform regular bank reconciliations, ensuring accurate and timely cash book postings within Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and national statistics reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Assist with maintaining the integrity of the trial balance, ensuring supporting schedules are accurate, complete and regularly updated.
• Prepare and post monthly journals, including accruals, prepayments, fixed asset depreciation and other month-end adjustments.
• Maintain and develop financial control documentation, identifying opportunities to strengthen processes and improve reporting accuracy.
• Support the development of robust financial controls and accounting procedures across the finance function.

Month-End & Financial Reporting

• Support the monthly financial close process, ensuring reconciliations, journals and reporting schedules are completed accurately and within agreed deadlines.
• Take responsibility for preparing full monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial reports and supporting analysis, including Other Debtors, Goods Received Not Invoiced (GRNI) and cost centre review packs.
• Support cost centre reviews, preparing financial analysis and participating in review meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Produce daily operational and financial performance reports, including Hours vs Budget analysis.
• Support monthly and quarterly group reporting requirements, ensuring accurate and consistent financial information.
• Process and reconcile monthly intercompany recharges, ensuring transactions are correctly allocated and recorded across relevant group entities.
• Work closely with operational colleagues to investigate variances, improve reporting quality and support informed financial decision-making.
• Produce and issue sales invoices and credit notes, ensuring transactions are accurate and processed within agreed timescales.
• Maintain the sales ledger, ensuring customer accounts are accurately recorded and regularly reconciled.
• Support cash flow forecasting, monitoring expected customer receipts and supplier payments.
• Issue customer statements and proactively chase overdue debt, supporting effective working capital management.
• Prepare weekly debtor cash updates, highlighting outstanding balances, expected receipts and potential collection issues.
• Monitor customer advances, ensuring balances are correctly accounted for and reflected within financial reporting.

Additional Responsibilities & Projects

• Ensure intercompany balances are accurately recorded, reconciled and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Provide cover for payroll processing when required.
• Assist with year-end reporting, preparing supporting schedules and responding to external audit queries.
• Support the preparation of year-end statutory financial statements, ensuring accounting information is complete and accurate.
• Assist with preparing supporting documentation for Research & Development (R&D) tax claims.
• Support the preparation of financial business cases for new product development, including costing, financial analysis and investment appraisal.
• Contribute to wider finance projects, process improvements and the continued development of financial reporting across the business.

About You

We're looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious accountant who is either newly qualified or approaching the final stages of their professional qualification and looking to take the next step in their career.

You'll ideally bring:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA – newly qualified or finalist.
• A strong grounding in financial accounting, gained either within industry or an accountancy practice environment.
• A sound understanding of month-end accounting, journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience preparing or supporting financial and management accounts, with an appreciation of accurate and timely reporting.
• Exposure to VAT reporting, statutory accounting requirements or year-end audit processes would be advantageous.
• Strong Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate financial data, prepare reconciliations and produce meaningful analysis.
• Experience using an ERP or integrated accounting system would be beneficial, particularly Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• An interest in broadening your commercial finance experience, including cash flow forecasting, operational reporting and financial analysis.

Just as importantly, we're looking for someone with the right attitude and ambition.

You'll be organised, analytical and detail-oriented, with a proactive, hands-on approach to your work. You'll enjoy taking ownership, investigating issues and identifying practical solutions.

Strong communication skills and the confidence to build relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues will be important, alongside a collaborative approach and a genuine interest in understanding how financial performance connects to wider business operations.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

For an ambitious accountant, this represents an excellent opportunity to join a growing business at an exciting stage of its development.

You'll benefit from:

• Excellent career development within an ambitious, high-growth organisation.
• Broad financial exposure, spanning technical accounting, month-end reporting, group reporting and commercial finance.
• International group experience, including intercompany accounting and multi-entity reporting.
• Business partnering opportunities, working closely with finance and operational stakeholders.
• Exposure to improvement projects, including finance processes, reporting, controls and new product development.
• A varied and hands-on position, offering the opportunity to take ownership and make a genuine contribution.

Whether you're a newly qualified accountant looking to make your first move from practice into industry, or an ACCA/CIMA finalist already working within a finance function, this could be an excellent next step.