Financial Accountant
Reed Smith

About the Role

This challenging and rewarding position will have responsibility for the delivery of high quality, accounting processes within the UK Accounting team, and improved management reporting. The role will support the business with complete and robust accounting procedures as well as responsibility for certain key control activities through the calendar year, across our global centres. The position will undertake routine monthly reporting and help to enable the preparation for annual audits and statutory reporting. There will be exposure to aspects of project work, as well as systems and process implementation. To excel in this role, you should possess, above all, strong accounting skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders at all levels in the organisation.

Your responsibilities

• Reporting to the Finance Manager, the primary purpose of the role is to provide accounting support across a range of responsibilities, delivering accurate accounting reports in a timely and reliable manner.
• Take ownership for aspects of management reporting and balance sheet controls, taking 'end to end' responsibility for certain month/Year end activities:
• Creating process improvements, suggesting changes to enhance the control environment and improve decision making insight
• Provision of reliable quarterly management accounts for various entities across EMEA
• Reconciliation of various balance sheet (and P&L) accounts across EMEA, some of which are relatively complex - plus identification and implementation of process changes to simplify and enhance the reconciliations going forward
• Assistance with provision of data to external statutory auditors in UK and Singapore during their audits.
• Preparation and delivery of various regular reports to internal stakeholders.
• Preparation/input of various monthly journals for month-end routine.

Key skills and experience

• Energetic, ambitious and focused
• Qualified or very experienced ACA, ACCA or CIMA Accountant
• Significant experience in reconciliation processes and controls
• Clear and concise communications skills, both verbal and written
• Significant experience in similar accounting roles.
• Solid, demonstrable skill in the technical aspects of accounting procedure
• Ambitious / Pro-active - delivers the expected result and offers suggestions for improvement
• Strong team player, able to build strong relationships with team members and business stakeholders; Sense of fun, energy and team building.
• Strong analytical skills
• Highly computer literate; competent in using excel and complex accounting systems; capacity to learn other applications.

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