Role: Financial Accountant Location: Harwell, Didcot (hybrid working) Salary: £35,000 to £45,000 plus benefits Role ID: 2025 - 2959 Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. Key Responsibilities Preparation of cash flow and working capital forecasts, budgets and reporting. Working with the business to achieve excellent cash performance. Preparation of statutory annual reports. Prepare supporting information for audits, including liaising with internal and external auditors. Ensuring compliance with internal controls. Day to day management of Assistant Financial Accountant. Undertake one to one meetings, appraisals and other staff meetings. Improve systems and processes within the team to ensure it is running in the most efficient and effective way, including development of new reports. Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations. Preparation of data for Corporation Tax returns. Preparation of various period end, half year and year end reports for internal and group reporting. Provide support for wider finance team during peak times and periods of high leave. Provide cover for payroll processing (outsourced) Key Competencies and Experience Commercially focused fully or finalist level (ACCA/CIMA/ACA). Knowledge of statutory accounts and working as part of a multi-national group. Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards. Able to liaise and influence at all levels. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Next steps Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. LI-JT1 LI-Hybrid