Financial Accountant - Milton Keynes

Volkswagen Group; Wallingford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An international automotive manufacturer in Wallingford is seeking a fully qualified Financial Accountant. This role involves preparing financial reports, maintaining the general ledger using SAP FI, and working closely with auditors to ensure compliance. Ideal candidates will have strong technical accounting skills and experience in month-end reporting. The position offers competitive benefits, including a pension scheme, car schemes, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 9%

Employee Car Ownership scheme

Private medical insurance after probation

Access to LinkedIn Learning and professional development programmes

Qualifications

• Must be a fully qualified Accountant ACCA, CIMA, ACA.
• Experience dealing with large financial inputs and submissions.
• Thorough knowledge of balance sheet account reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Prepare internal reporting schedules for the HQ Accounting team.
• Maintain the general ledger in SAP FI.
• Handle month end processes and post necessary journals.
• Work with auditors for quarterly and year-end audits.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations.
• Manage payroll, accruals, and provisions reporting.

Skills

Detailed technical accounting knowledge

Experience with month end reporting

Advanced Excel skills

Managing stakeholder relationships

Knowledge of balance sheet reconciliations

Sound decision making

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

SAP FI

Microsoft Office products

Job description

We're looking for a Financial Accountant to support the delivery of the monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to our HQ Accounting team, internal reporting for management, assisting the operational management of all internal and external audit activity across multiple stakeholders throughout our business.

What you’ll be doing:

• Key contributor to the monthly submission of the financial package to the HQ Accounting team for VWFS entities, including the preparation of internal reporting schedules with comparisons to forecast and the timely resolution of reporting queries from the HQ Accounting Team.
• Responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the general ledger in SAP FI.
• Proactively supporting organisational projects and change as an SME. Performance of month end processes and posting of journals to complete the month end position where required. This includes working with other areas of the business to ensure all required journals are accurately posted in line with the month end timetable.
• Providing information and analysis to auditors (internal and external) for quarterly, interim and year end audits. Working alongside other areas of the business to ensure audit requests are fulfilled on a timely basis.
• Preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations including the identification of any risks on individual balance sheet accounts and the resolution of issues.
• Responsibility for understanding and completing reporting tasks including managing and posting journals for payroll, accruals, prepayments, provisions, and contingent provisions.
• Working with the FRM to complete the annual statutory accounts.
• Ensuring all procedures, ARIS maps and IDP's are completed and up to date as required.
• Support the Financial Reporting Manager through coaching and training the other members of the team and supporting them with understanding and completing processes as and when necessary, be able to cover and deputise as and when required.

You're a fully qualified Accountant ACCA, CIMA, ACA with detailed technical accounting knowledge and understanding in particular, in banking and financial services. You'll be focused on detail, accuracy and data quality, but you'll also be able to understand outputs in the context of other reporting and business knowledge.

Essential experience & skills

• You have experience dealing with a varied and large number of inputs and collating them into final submissions.
• Demonstrable experience of month end reporting and preparing accounts under IFRS.
• Experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Competent with Microsoft office products and Advanced Excel skills.
• If you already have working knowledge of SAP FI this is preferable and would be a huge benefit.
• You have thorough knowledge of balance sheet account reconciliations and controls, and how they fit into the overall reporting process.
• Sound decision maker even when under pressure and you can prioritise ensuring quality data is delivered to strict deadlines.
• You're able to effectively manage and influence stakeholders to ensure accuracy, productivity and efficiency while ensuring compliant working practices.

Why join VWFS UK?

You'll have the opportunity to make a difference through your focus on improving processes and ensuring efficiencies are made, saving time, building confidence across the business, helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers. No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn't just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

Benefits

Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car Schemes

• Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance.
• Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other Benefits

From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You'll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.