Financial Accountant

This role requires you to be on-site three days a week in our Reading office on a Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Optional home working is on a Wednesday and Friday.

OBJECTIVE

Ensure that group and statutory reporting requirements are met in a timely and robust manner.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Monthly Reporting Process:

Plan, organise and manage own workload to ensure the company’s monthly financial reporting processes are achieved in a timely and accurate manner, including but not limited to:

• Preparation of stock valuation, and necessary stock provisions, ensuring early identification of stock risks
• Support Commercial Finance colleagues in the preparation of the sales flash for working day one.
• Monitoring of goods received not invoiced account ensuring timely reconciliation
• Preparation of accruals and prepayments
• Maintenance of fixed asset and intangible asset register
• Reconciliation of intercompany balances
• Processing of timesheets for R&D
• Participate strongly in financial reviews, challenging and providing commentary on significant transactions and variances
• Preparation of the balance sheet reconciliations ensuring that all carrying balances are adequately supported
• Covering for the Senior Financial Accountant for Functional Reporting Commentary for actuals and submission to STADA including updating the BI tool.

Statutory Returns

• Ensuring statutory reporting obligations are correctly recorded, reconciled, authorised and submitted in a timely manner:
• Preparation of VAT returns, EC Sales list and intrastat returns, ensuring all information is correctly recorded, reconciled and submitted in a timely manner
• Preparation of National Statistical Office returns
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual VPAG returns
• Provide information required for the preparation of the Corporation Tax returns
• Preparation of the annual P11d and PSA returns
• Assist in the preparation of the statutory accounts

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION (Skills required to perform the job)

Essential:

• Experience of working consistently to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining high level of accuracy
• Challenging and analytical in nature, confident to challenge until underlying reasons are identified
• Ability to work in a team and as an individual
• Able to provide meaningful analysis of data using Excel, able to utilise pivot tables and macros where appropriate.
• Part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA etc.)

Desirable:

• SAP and SAP Ariba experience