Financial Accountant – Belfast

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Job summary

Telefónica Tech in Belfast seeks a qualified Financial Accountant with audit background to move into a commercial finance role. You'll contribute to financial reporting, audit management, and technical accounting while partnering with senior finance stakeholders.

The role offers exposure to IFRS, balance sheet reconciliations, revenue recognition, and intercompany activities, with a path from in-practice to industry.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
• Strong audit background gained within a Big 4 or leading accountancy practice.
• Experience auditing financial services, financial institutions, or complex corporate environments.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and financial reporting standards.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive approach and desire to build a career within industry.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the production of monthly management accounts
• Supervision of Purchase Ledger team
• Owner and Expert of the Professional Service Practice financial reporting
• Reviewing and analysing profit and loss performance
• Managing lease accounting and IFRS compliance
• Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
• Performing revenue recognition analysis and reporting
• Coordinating the annual external audit process
• Supporting and enhancing internal audit activities and controls
• Preparing group reporting submissions
• Managing intercompany reconciliations and transactions
• Providing technical accounting support across the finance function
• Contributing to finance improvement projects and ad hoc initiatives

Skills

ACA/ACCA qualification

Audit background

IFRS knowledge

Analytical skills

Proactive

Education

ACA/ACCA or equivalent

Job description

TelefonicaTech ·United Kingdom, Belfast

Not specified Full-time Not specified Finance

Job Description

Financial Accountant(Audit Background)

Ready to take your audit expertise into a commercial finance role?

We’re looking for a qualified Financial Accountant who wants to move beyond professional practice and become part of a growing commercial business. This is an excellent opportunity for someone trained within a Big 4 or leading accountancy firm who enjoys the technical side of accounting but is keen to see the real-world impact of their work within an operational environment.

You’ll play a key role in financial reporting, audit management, and technical accounting while working closely with senior finance stakeholders across the business.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the production of monthly management accounts
• Supervision of Purchase Ledger team
• Owner and Expert of the Professional Service Practice financial reporting
• Reviewing and analysing profit and loss performance
• Managing lease accounting and IFRS compliance
• Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
• Performing revenue recognition analysis and reporting
• Coordinating the annual external audit process
• Supporting and enhancing internal audit activities and controls
• Preparing group reporting submissions
• Managing intercompany reconciliations and transactions
• Providing technical accounting support across the finance function
• Contributing to finance improvement projects and ad hoc initiatives

What We’re Looking For

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Strong audit background gained within a Big 4 or leading accountancy practice
• Experience auditing financial services, financial institutions, or complex corporate environments
• Strong understanding of IFRS and financial reporting standards
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• A proactive approach and desire to build a career within industry

This role offers the ideal first or second move from practice into industry, providing exposure to a broad range of financial accounting and commercial finance activities.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Apply your technical accounting expertise in a commercial setting
• Gain visibility across a dynamic business operation
• Work closely with senior finance leaders and decision-makers
• Build a long-term career beyond audit and consulting
• Influence processes, controls, and financial reporting improvements

If you’re looking to leverage your audit training while gaining broader commercial experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Telefónica Tech(part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.

We serve more than 5.5m customers every day in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners. Global strategic hubs: Spain, Brazil, the UK, Germany.

The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end- to-end portfolio of market leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through: Cloud, Data & AI, Enterprise Applications, Workplace Services and Cyber Security & Networking.

Values:Open, Trusted and Bold

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