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Financial Accountant
Job summary
A fast-growing education company in the UK seeks a Financial Accountant to manage financial responsibilities including audits and tax matters. The role offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong technical skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset.
Benefits
Qualifications
- A professional accounting qualification is required.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and confident communication skills are essential.
- Good level of competence in Excel, Word, and Outlook is needed.
Responsibilities
- Support the Senior Group Financial Accountant in financial management.
- Oversee end-to-end audit process and ensure preparedness.
- Prepare and submit statutory accounts and related reports.
- Provide information to external tax advisors as needed.
- Collate information for financial and tax aspects of acquisitions.
- Deliver ad hoc projects such as systems developments.
Skills
Education
Tools
This is an excellent opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join a fast-growing, PE backed early years education company. The role involves handling accounting and finance responsibilities, covering balance sheet governance, audit and tax, finance projects and acquisition work.
The PE-backed business is growing fast through acquisition with a priority of giving exceptional early-years education opportunities.
- Support the Senior Group Financial Accountant in all aspects of financial management, including but not restricted to: balance sheets, reporting, audit and property.
- Overseeing end-to-end audit process, ensuring the business is well prepared for the audit, that the management information produced reflects the statutory reporting requirements, providing information to external auditors.
- Preparation and submission of statutory accounts, company secretarial filings, valuation office returns and other statutory reports as required.
- To provide information to external tax advisors to ensure the tax requirements and processes are followed.
- Collate and review information provided for the financial and tax aspects of the acquisition processes.
- Ad hoc project delivery, ranging from strategic projects, systems developments, or process improvements.
A successful Financial Accountant should have:
- A professional accounting qualification.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and confident communication skills.
- Good level of competence in Excel, Word and Outlook
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively and to tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated, calm and professional
- A positive attitude to new and challenging tasks
- Competitive salary.
- Hybrid / flexible working arrangements.
- A supportive and professional working environment.
- Generous PTO, including your birthday off.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.