Senior Reporting Accountant
Location: Aberdeen
Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.
The Senior Statutory Reporting Accountant plays a key role in ensuring accurate, timely reporting for management and meeting strict deadlines throughout the financial year. The role is primarily responsible for the legal entity and consolidated statutory reporting of Bilfinger’s UK Regions entities located in the UK and Denmark. This role requires a great level of attention to detail and understanding of the general accepted accounting policies across all relevant jurisdictions .
Key Responsibilities
* Monitor and track variances between group/segmental and legal entity reporting
* Reconcile and liaise with tax department regarding disclosures
* Carry out audit and financial reporting in all jurisdictions
* Prepare and review analysis/reports for internal control requirements
* Liaise with internal and external organisations as required including:
- external auditors to ensure audits are progressing as efficiently as possible (delegating where applicable);
- local accounting teams to understand significant transactions and to provide input into the preparation of audit information and analysis;
* Develop, oversee and manage ad hoc projects, as required
* May perform other duties/ad-hoc projects as assigned
Qualifications & Experience:
The ideal candidate will have the following:
* An Accounting degree and professional accounting qualification (i.e. CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
* Experience with UK GAAP and IFRS
* Be proficient in Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
* Be detail-oriented, organised, and focused on quality
* Ability to work using own initiative and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Ability to effectively manage own workload, and work within given timescales (both internal and external), to meet monthly deadlines and goals as well as managing several time-sensitive activities simultaneously
* Ability to interact with internal staff at all levels of the business
* Adaptability and problem solving capability
* Ability to identify and help drive process improvement initiatives
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