Financial Accountant

Short Description

Deputy to the Financial Controller playing an important role within our business you will be trusted to own reporting taxation audits etc

Bullet Points

• CIMA ACA or ACCA qualified.
• As a qualified accountant you will mentor the wiser team
• Hybrid working model in Milton Keynes

Full Job Description

As deputy to the Financial Controller you will play an important role within our business you will be trusted to own reporting taxation audits and internal projects that require input from the accounts department.
You will possess excellent attention to detail and enjoy being the go to for accounting queries.
This role will require the successful candidate to be CIMA ACA or ACCA qualified.
As a qualified accountant we are looking for an individual who will delight in mentoring the wider team.

We offer a marketrelated salary car scheme bonus and an excellent benefits package which includes a pension scheme complementary life insurance financial incentive schemes and discounts on major retail outlets including groceries.
Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting you will be responsible for the delivery and review of all accounts related activity.
• Excellent communication timely and clear communication with internal stakeholders ensuring all parties are kept up to date.
• Team player ability to bring the team with you through clear direction mentoring and collaboration.
• Continuous improvement focussed on the continual improvement of Scania Financial Services processes and procedures.

Quote from the FD As an industry we are in an exciting position where things are always changing and evolving.
This allows for great opportunities to work collaboratively on new projects.
The successful candidate will bring a positive dynamic and enthusiastic mindset working with excellent attention to detail mentoring those around them and being open to continuous improvement.
Working for us is not just about the job. Its about you too and this is where the company goes the extra mile and provides an industry leading employment package.

What you will need:

• ACA ACCA or CIMA qualified.
• Proven leadership skills and experience.
• Proven working experience as a Financial Accountant.
• 5 years of overall combined accounting and finance experience.
• Relevant business knowledge and experience in a similar role.
• Experience with general ledger functions and the monthend/yearend close process.
• Experience with creating and reporting financial statements and external audits.
• Demonstrate expertise in Excel and finance system D365.
• Effective written/verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Efficient organised and proactive.
• Fluent in English.

General Competencies
Business perspective: Using an understanding of business issues processes and outcomes to enhance business performance.
Compliance procedures and systems: Understanding the importance of compliance within the finance industry.
Customer understanding: Demonstrates understanding of customers (internal and external) their commercial offerings industry business motivational drivers and needs. Understands how Our client can contribute to the optimization of customer profitability.
Information gathering and processing: Locating and collecting data from appropriate sources and analysing it to prepare meaningful and concise reports that summarize the information.
Leadership skills: Demonstrate leadership skills to support and guide the team
Managing People: Managing others to ensure their work contributes to organisational goals. Developing individuals building teams resolving conflicts and applying workplace policies.
Managing resources: Planning allocating and mobilizing resources (human physical information and financial resources) to achieve organizational goals.
Problemsolving skills and tight deadlines: Exceptional numerical analytical and problemsolving skills and ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Reporting requirements: Demonstrate an understanding of external reporting requirements.
Systems: Demonstrate an understanding of financial reporting systems Excel and Microsoft Word.
Communication: Listening and communicating openly honestly and respectfully with different audiences promoting dialogue and building consensus. Strong interpersonal skills.
Confident in working remotely and dealing with challenging situations: Be able to work independently and proactively with limited supervision. Ensuring a high degree of accuracy on time.
Ensuring accountability: Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability and creating an infrastructure and transparent culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.
Exemplifying integrity: Treating others fairly honestly and respectfully furthering the integrity of the organization and its relationships of trust with the broader community.
Inspiring Others: Energising and inspiring others to strive for excellence and commit to common goals and purposes creating a sense of selfefficacy resilience and persistence in followers.
Leading Change: Recognising the need for change being open to new ideas and methods and championing transformational change within the organization and beyond.
Result orientated: Demonstrates the effort willingness and ambition to achieve results. Meets objectives and responds proactively to avoid disappointing results.
Team player: Must be a team player who communicates well and is on hand to help and support the team when needed.
Thinking Strategically: Seeing and synthesizing different sides of an issue examining the full range of options and outcomes and building intellectual frameworks to guide analysis and action.