Job Description

Job Title: Financial Reporting Accountant
Salary: \xc2\xa340,000 - \xc2\xa355,000 per annum
Location: Cardiff

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for processing, recording, maintaining and reconciling accounts to prepare reports in compliance with established policies and procedures.

• Follows direction of the Head of Finance and provides support to ensure all deadlines, both internal & external are met in a reasonable time frame.

Responsibilities:

The key objective of the role is to assist the finance team in ensuring that all statutory, group and divisional financial accounting is carried out in a timely and professional manner by:

• Validate the trial balance of the UK and German companies and report via the group reporting system
• Monitoring overheads, issuing reports to departmental managers and report on major variances
• Assist with inventory analysis, valuation, reporting and physical inventory verification
• Maintain the weekly cashflow forecast to enable clear visibility of the company\'s\' cash position
• Responsibility for reporting of Leases under IFRS16
• Responsibility for monthly balance sheet reconciliation process
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process
• Coordinate and perform the monthly internal audit requirements and undertake the annual self declaration process in line with group requirements.
• Preparation of annual corporation tax questionnaire for tax consultants.
• Responsibility for submission of national statistics forms
• Reviewing reports for accuracy and meticulously tracing errors back to their source to resolve errors and correct faulty reporting methods.
• Complete regular and ad-hoc financial reports that provide information to meet the requirements of the business.
• Any other tasks requested by management

Knowledge/Experience:

• The jobholder should be a qualified accountant and preferably have an academic education to degree level. Full knowledge and understanding of all relevant accounting conventions is required.
• Ideally, the jobholder will have had experience in both financial and management accounting roles, preferably in a manufacturing environment, and should have experience with profit and Loss and balance sheet preparation.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills will be necessary and excellent computer literacy will be a pre-qrequisite. The jobholder will have good organizational skills and will posses the ability to prioritise their workload as well as having good interpersonal skills.

Other Requirements:

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• UK Requirements: Eligibility to work in the UK.
• IT: Microsoft Office skills to intermediate level namely Word and PowerPoint.
• IT : Excel skills - Pivots, v look ups, IF formulas etc
• M3 or similar ERP system experience - essential

Manufacturing experience - desirable

• Due to the nature of this role, it is required that you live within reasonable travelling distance from the core area of work.
• Due to the nature of this role, there may be a requirement to undertake work outside of normal hours i.e. evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
• Month end timings may require additional hours.
• This job description is not exhaustive and may be updated from time to time.

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