Senior Financial Accountant

ISS; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

ISS seeks a Senior Financial Accountant to enhance financial operations in London. The role involves supporting the Business Unit Controller, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and delivering value-added financial services. Candidates should have relevant accountancy qualifications and strong analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Qualified/Part qualified/Studying towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in finance roles preferred.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support financial responsibilities across customer contracts.
• Ensure Month-End Close activities are performed accurately and on time.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and drive accuracy in financial reporting.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Job description

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In this role, you will be integral to supporting the Business Unit Controller in identifying and implementing improvements in processes and procedures.

Your efforts will help drive efficiencies in cost management, financial risk mitigation, and standardisation across the finance function. You will be responsible for fulfilling financial responsibilities across customer contracts, ensuring accounts are reported accurately and reconciled on a timely basis.

As a Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in driving key financial transactional processes, with a particular focus on assessing and anticipating finance-related needs and proactively communicating them to relevant key customer and ISS stakeholders.

Delivering value-added financial services to Account Leadership and Customers that reflect the business objectives of the organisation will be central to your role.

We invite you to join our team as a Senior Financial Accountant and contribute to the success of our financial operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within a robust internal financial controls framework, completing Controls Self-Assessments, ensuring control procedures are adhered to and taking an active involvement in the updating the controls framework for changes in processes and procedures
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring compliance with the UK&I reconciliation requirements, and drive accuracy in financial reporting by proactively ensuring all reviewer recommendations are implemented
• Responsibility for the external audit, Group and UK&I internal audits and Financial Controls & Assurance reviews
• Ensure an accurate and smooth Month-End Close cycle for all allocated accounts
• Ensure Month-End Close activities are performed accurately and on time - these procedures include the calculation, review and processing of all accruals, prepayments, revenue-related transactions across customer contracts.
• Review Overdue Accounts Receivable, and Trade Working Capital reports and take corrective action where required.
• Investigate and explain deviations from Forecasts
• Run open purchase order report weekly and review all open orders keeping aged POs to a minimum
• Support Key Account Managers/Directors in Business Reviews and support Finance Business Partners in customer reporting activities

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Qualified/ or Part qualified/ studying towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent qualification by experience
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Analytical skills and the ability to interpret and pass on complex information
• Exercise good judgement and decision-making skills
• Excellent organisation, planning and time management skills
• Meticulous attention to detail

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

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Created on 02/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom