Financial Accountant

Vibe Recruit; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a Financial Accountant/Accounting Manager for a global health care organization. The role involves managing statutory accounting tasks, providing technical support, and preparing divisional performance reports. Ideal candidates will be ACA/ACCA qualified with strong knowledge of statutory accounting and SAP. This long-term contract offers the possibility of transitioning to a permanent position.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with ACA or ACCA certification.
• Excellent understanding of UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Previous audit experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of statutory accounting tasks.
• Review statutory accounts and troubleshoot issues.
• Manage CFS Divisional performance reporting.

Skills

Statutory Accounting understanding

Communication skills

Excel skills

Education

Qualified Accountant - ACA or ACCA

Tools

SAP

Job description

Overview

Financial Accountant/Accounting Manager position with a global health care and drug development organisation. Immediate requirement.

Main Accountabilities

• Ownership of statutory accounting tasks related to CFS entity statutory financial statements, including audit planning, participation in audit governance meetings and managing escalations.
• Review of statutory accounts and associated issue resolution.
• Provide technical accounting support to the CFS accounting team in areas such as share-based payment accounting, impairment assessment, revenue recognition, lease accounting and IFRS disclosure.
• Ownership of the monthly CFS Divisional performance reporting for the UK, including management of all ad hoc requests and queries from division management.
• Manage the Plan and LBE process for CFS UK and deliver the same for other departments.
• Support and involvement in other month-end and year-end close tasks and processes as required.
• Responsible for timely and accurate initiation of intercompany recharges in collaboration with the Tax Manager to ensure compliance and correct transfer pricing practice.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Accountant - ACA or ACCA
• Excellent understanding of Statutory Accounting under both UK GAAP (FRS102) and IFRS (FRS101)
• Working knowledge and understanding of SAP
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey technical accounting and taxation issues in straightforward language to both financial and non-financial managers
• Good Excel/Word skills
• Previous audit experience

This is a long-term contract position (4-5 years) with an opportunity to be transferred to a permanent staff position, should that be a preferred option.

Interested, please contact Graeme at Vibe Recruit on (phone number removed) or apply immediately!

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy