Financial Reporting Accountant

Shaw Trust; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking a finance professional to join their Group Finance team, primarily supporting financial reporting for a large multi-location organization. Ideal candidates will have recent CCAB qualifications and relevant experience in financial statement preparation and system improvements.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary

Paid volunteering leave

Access to learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recent CCAB qualification or equivalent required.
• Relevant experience of preparing annual financial statements including group consolidation.

Responsibilities

• Support financial reporting requirements across a wide group structure.
• Liaise with external advisors, particularly external auditors.

Skills

Communication of complex financial information

System and process improvement

Education

CCAB qualification or equivalent

Job description

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

Shaw Trust is a leading UK charity, being a key provider of employability services for DWP, justice services through HMPPS, education services with the DfE, fostering and child support services for OFSTED and CQC, and much more.

This role is part of the development of a Group Finance team and will involve supporting the financial reporting requirements across a wide group structure.

We need someone who is comfortable working remotely while developing excellent working relations with colleagues across a large (c.£200m) turnover, multi-location organisation

Essential:

You will have:

• recent CCAB qualification or equivalent
• relevant experience of preparing annual financial statements including group consolidation
• experience of improving systems and processes
• the ability to communicate complex financial information in a straightforward way
• experience of liaising with external advisors, in particular external auditors

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Location:

You will be home based

Employee Benefits

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: https://www.shawtrust.org.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

• We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
• We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
• Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: [e-mail]

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.