Financial Accountant

Sellick Partnership; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company in Manchester is seeking a Financial Accountant to assist in their growth project. The role involves managing financial accounts, treasury operations, and providing key financial data for decision-making. This opportunity requires a qualified accountant with strong financial control skills and fluency in Spanish.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Experience in financial accounting and treasury operations.
• Fluent in Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain accurate financial records in compliance with UK GAAP/IFRS.
• Manage daily treasury operations and cash flow forecasting.
• Support month-end and year-end closing processes.

Skills

Financial accounting

Treasury management

Cash flow management

Spanish

Communication skills

Education

ACA or ACCA or CIMA qualification

Job description

Financial Accountant

Salary: 50,000- 55,000

Location: Manchester (hybrid working)

Duration: Full Time, Permanent

Sellick Partnership has been engaged to recruit a Financial Accountant for an innovative, dynamic, award winning, successful and growing business in a buoyant market, based in Manchester city centre. This role is available at an exciting time and the successful candidate will play a major part in the company's current business growth project.

Reporting to the Finance Director, this is a broad and all-encompassing role that will be responsible for the delivery of complete, accurate and timely financial accounts, reporting, managing cashflow, banking relationships and risk management.

The successful candidate will have solid experience in both financial accounting and treasury operations and ideally speak Spanish.

The business has an exciting 5 year growth strategy, and the successful candidate will have the necessary forward looking skills to support this plan.

Responsibilities include:-

• Prepare and maintain accurate financial records in compliance with UK GAAP/IFRS and company policies.
• Manage daily treasury operations, including cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and bank reconciliations.
• Monitor and optimise working capital, ensuring sufficient cash availability for operational needs.
• Liaise with banks and financial institutions to manage banking facilities, payments, and treasury services.
• Support month-end and year-end closing processes, including reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting.
• Assist with the preparation of financial statements and management reports.
• Identify and mitigate treasury risks related to currency, interest rates, and counterparty exposures.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and corporate governance standards in both accounting and treasury activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including accounts payable/receivable, tax, and audit.
• Support treasury-related projects, such as cash pooling, intercompany loans, and treasury system implementations.

You will be a highly organised, self-motivated and a friendly team player with great commercial awareness and problem-solving skills and be able to deputise for the Head of Finance as required.

The successful applicant will be a Spanish speaking qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA or CIMA) making their first move out of a professional firm or who has experience within a similar role.

You will have a solid understanding of financial accounting principles, treasury management, and cash flow processes coupled with experience in cash flow forecasting, bank relationship management, and treasury risk management.

You will be a result driven, self-motivated and resourceful finance professional with a proven ability to provide key financial data, support and reporting to assist in key business decisions. You will have excellent communication skills and able to build strong relationships both within and outside of a finance department as well as effectively communicating financial information to non-finance colleagues. You will possess strong financial control and reporting skills and rigorously ensuring that all statutory and corporate obligations are met.

You will have strong written and verbal communication skills, with continuous improvement in mind, and the ability to motivate oneself, and others, to deliver a high standard of work to agreed timetables, evaluate progress and implement corrective action.

If you consider yourself to be a committed, career driven professional who can demonstrate the above experience and who would welcome the stimulus of this finance post then we would be pleased to hear from you.

If you would like to apply for this role or would like to find out more, please apply online or contact Jonathan Moss at Sellick Partnership on (phone number removed).

We are only able to consider applications from those who are eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.