Job Title:
Group Reporting And Compliance – Senior Accountant
Department & Business Unit:
Finance
Reports To:
Head of Group Reporting and Compliance
Location:
Belasis - Billingham
Job Summary:
As Group Reporting and Compliance Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in Tracerco's Group Finance function. Reporting directly to the head of Group Reporting and Compliance, this pivotal role will focus on delivering accurate consolidated financial reporting, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and supporting tax and audit processes across the group.
Key Responsibilities:
* Supporting on the completion of the financial year audits for the following entities:
* Tracerco Limited
* Line management of Assistant Financial Accountant.
* Supporting auditors with queries.
* Supporting and managing the completion of the Corporation Tax Submission.
* Reviewing year end balance sheet reconciliations for each of the entities and quickly preparing and updating these where needed.
* Internal point of contact for complex technical accounting and tax matters.
* Preparing accounting policies and ensuring these are well documented.
* Documenting consolidated accounting processes for all entities across the group.
* Supporting any external consultants onboarded with the completion of the year end audits with relevant documentation they need.
* Review the signed statutory accounts for technical and non-technical accounting matters.
* Managing government gateway access – re VAT & Corporation Tax.
* Managing the late audit adjustments in the form of an extended trial balance preparing and providing these to the relevant management accounts team for them to post and factor into balance sheet reconciliations
* Supporting the organisation to achieve compliance and consistency in processes in areas outside of finance such as stock, revenue and cost of sales recording processes.
* Reviewing Tracerco Limited’s Withholding Tax Reconciliations and monitoring the understanding of accounting treatment to ensure that it is compliant with expected recover-ability.
Reporting
* Managing the Inter-company reconciliations within the Group.
* Posting and preparing the opening balance reconciliations and ensuring retained earnings match the prior period’s signed statutory accounts across the group.
* Managing the year end process with the relevant management accounting teams to run bring forward the balances into the new financial period.
* Managing the ledgers on a monthly basis to ensure these are opened and closed appropriately to prevent any prior period postings on 365.
* Review journals and support the management accounts team on technical accounting matters.
* Review the signed statutory accounts for technical and non-technical accounting matters.
* Support external accountants with the preparation of the statutory accounts drawing on your previous experience of preparing these.
* Supporting on adhoc needs across the group for compliance, technical accounting, tax treatments and on how to correctly post/maintain entries in D365 system.
Required Qualifications:
* Professional Accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
* Experience in IFRS financial reporting and consolidation.
* Strong technical accounting skills including knowledge of consolidations and financial statement preparation
* Ability to handle multiple projects and tasks coordinating with various stakeholders.
* Experience and insight around accounting and reporting systems (e.g MS Dynamics 365).
* Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills.
* Advanced proficiency in financial analysis, modelling and reporting tools.