Senior Financial Accountant

Boden Group

Senior Financial Accountant

You will be integral to supporting the Business Unit Controller in identifying and implementing improvements in processes and procedures.

Senior Financial Accountant, you will be part of the UK&I Controlling function.

A dynamic team incorporating controls and assurance.

Highly progressive role!

You will be integral to supporting the Business Unit Controller in identifying and
implementing improvements in processes and procedures, help drive efficiencies in cost management, financial risk mitigation and driving standardisation across the finance function.

You will be responsible for fulfilment of financial responsibilities across customer
contracts, ensuring accounts are reported accurately and reconciled on a timely
basis. You will be key in driving key financial transactional processes, with particular focus on assessing and anticipating finance-related needs and being proactive in communicating them to relevant key customer and Business stakeholders.

Integral to this role is delivery of value-added financial services to Account
Leadership and Customers that reflects the business objectives of the organisation

Criteria

• High level of integrity and honesty
• Good people and relationship skills
• Ability to find swift resolutions to queries
• Willing to challenge and be challenged
• Finding ways to make improvements to processes and procedures to drive Simplification, standardisation and enhance accuracy
• Maintain high levels of compliance and control
• Collaboration with Internal Stakeholders (Reporting Unit FDs and FBPs, senior management, FP&A, Financial Controls & Assurance, Internal Audit and across all central functional areas) and External Stakeholders (auditors and advisors)

Experience & Traits

• Qualified/ or Part qualified/ studying towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent qualification by experience
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Analytical skills and the ability to interpret and pass on complex information.
• Exercise good judgement and decision-making skills
• Excellent organisation, planning and time management skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• The ability to work well under pressure and challenge the status quo.
• Intermediate Excel skills essential, knowledge of Navision and/or OneStream an advantage

Key Responsibilities

• Work within a robust internal financial controls framework, completing Controls Self-Assessments, ensuring control procedures are adhered to and taking an active involvement in the updating the controls framework for changes in processes and procedures
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring compliance with the UK&I reconciliation requirements, and drive accuracy in financial reporting by proactively ensuring all reviewer recommendations are implemented
• Responsibility for the external audit, Group and UK&I internal audits and Financial Controls & Assurance reviews
• Ensure an accurate and smooth Month-End Close cycle for all allocated accounts.
• Ensure Month-End Close activities are performed accurately and on time. These procedures include the calculation, review and processing of all accruals, prepayments, revenue-related transactions across customer contracts.
• Review Overdue Accounts Receivable, and Trade Working Capital reports and take corrective action where required.
• Investigate and explain deviations from Forecasts.
• Run open purchase order report weekly and review all open orders keeping aged POs to a minimum.
• Support Key Account Managers/Directors in Business Reviews and support Finance Business Partners in customer reporting activities.
• Balance sheet control activities, including completeness and accuracy of prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, contract receivables, provisions.
• Income Statement control activities, including analytical review procedures, customer profitability analysis, payroll review, overhead management.
• Working with the Business Unit Controller to deliver optimum financial controls, processes and efficiency across the finance function.