Group Financial Accountant

Viasat, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

About us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you'll do

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an ambitious individual to join the small, high-profile Group Finance Team which is responsible for:

• Monthly consolidation
• Group External Financial Reporting
• Annual Report (back half)
• Statutory reporting for all legal entities
• Quarterly reporting
• The external audit relationship
• Providing accounting and commercial support to organisation
• Own the Group accounting policies
• Supporting tax, legal and cosec teams with compliance reporting requirements

The day-to-day

The successful candidate will be responsible for preparation of month end journals, reconciliations, financial statements, and other financial accounting activities within the central Group Financial Reporting team. This will include posting journals in relation to complex accounting areas.

The candidate will work closely with other teams (including Financial Operations, Company Secretarial, Tax, & Treasury) ensuring all numbers are recorded accurately and that there is a clear communication between the teams.

• Preparing the journals for complex accounting areas specifically relating to IFRS-16 leases, equity-based payments, pension accounting and hedging.
• Preparing the monthly cashflow to be included as part of the monthly management reporting
• Reviewing consolidation entries for intercompany trade balance sheet accounts (including accounts receivable, accounts payable, prepayments and accruals). This includes working with the Financial Operations team to ensure appropriate elimination in SAP, while ensuring an appropriate elimination in Adaptive Insights
• Reviewing balance sheet eliminations for all Group entities not on SAP, liaising with local accountants and the Group revenue team to ensure balances are aligned on both sides
• Preparation of statutory accounts (in multiple currencies) within the Group
• Preparation of notes for the Group Consolidated Financial Statements, including both IFRS and US GAAP financial statements
• Preparation of various statistical returns for government agencies from around the world, ensuring that these are fairly distributed amongst the team and completed on time
• Providing support for the posting all journals relating to treasury transactions and reconciling between the treasury management system (TMS) and SAP
• Review of both external and intercompany borrowings and interest on a monthly basis.
• Management of the Group Financial Reporting cost centre, tracking all PR and POs to ensure they are in line with fee quotes and forecasts. Working with Accounts Payable to ensure vendors are paid on time and working with the P2P team to accurately record month end accruals
• Supporting the control environment (specifically in respect to SoX), including GL reconciliations (utilising the Blackline application).
• Preparation of quarterly and annual supporting schedule for the group's SEC and US GAAP reporting requirement (10Q and 10K)

What you'll need

• Graduate currently completing professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or equivalent
• Working knowledge of accounting principles, standards, IFRS (Knowledge of USGAAP accounting principles would be beneficial, but not essential).
• Analytical and technical accounting skills
• Strong knowledge of excel - including pivot tables and V-Look ups
• Flexible, hard-working and results oriented.

What will help you on the job

• Experience of SAP and/or Adaptive Insights would be an advantage
• Knowledge of USGAAP accounting principles would be beneficial, but not essential.

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.