Senior Financial Accountant
- Recruiter
- Absolute Accountancy Recruitment Limited
- Location
-
Northampton
NorthamptonNorthamptonshire
- Salary
- £65,000
- Posted
- 27 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 25 Aug 2021
- Ref
- 1125217
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Category
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Absolute Accountancy Recruitment are currently working with a FTSE 100 listed business based in Northamptonshire to hire a Senior Financial Accountant on a Fixed Term Contract basis for a 12 month period.
The role will support the Senior Group Financial Accountant to ensure that properties across the Group are accounted for correctly and consistently, and that all future IFRS 16 requirements are met.
Predominantly a technical role, key responsibilities will include drafting the monthly property journals, analysing the monthly costs of each property within the portfolio, ensuring that property related accounting policies are applied consistently and that the Group is fully up to speed with regards to accounting developments and best practice.
Key Responsibilities:
More about you:
The role will support the Senior Group Financial Accountant to ensure that properties across the Group are accounted for correctly and consistently, and that all future IFRS 16 requirements are met.
Predominantly a technical role, key responsibilities will include drafting the monthly property journals, analysing the monthly costs of each property within the portfolio, ensuring that property related accounting policies are applied consistently and that the Group is fully up to speed with regards to accounting developments and best practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Control all of the postings for properties across the EMEA business
- Produce accurate monthly cost/balance sheet reconciliations that cover the entire EMEA property portfolio
- Liaise with third parties to make sure that property accounting is robust
- Own the property related accounting policies e.g. dilapidations, onerous leases etc and make sure that these are well documented and applied consistently across the Group
- Business partner the EMEA finance team to proactively plan for change and make sure that property accounting is up to date
- Present the interim/year end support for property related costs, prepayments and accruals to the external auditors and work through any resulting queries
- Maintain the collation of all lease agreements
- Ensure full readiness and future compliance with IFRS 16
More about you:
- Recognised accountancy qualification ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- In-depth understanding of property accounting and experience of IFRS 16 implementations
- Familiar with Group consolidations including overseas subsidiaries – multi-currency & multi-site
- Confidence to build credibility quickly with stakeholders within and outside of the Finance function
- Advanced excel skills and ability to use PowerPoint and Word
- Experience with Navision, Dynamics or a main ERP system
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