Interim Statutory Accountant

Reporting into the Financial Accountant, you will need to be adaptive and have a can-do attitude. You'll work within a group environment, being responsible for the Group's statutory accounts alongside helping to build reports and technical accounting policies.

Client Details

An ambitious and growing global retailer who's Finance team supports the overall global business.

Description

Key responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining accounting manual documentation by ensuring policies adhere to IFRS for management and statutory accounting.
• Ensure the business' audit deliverables meet the requirements of the auditors both in terms of quality and timeliness by way of the year end audit milestone plan.
• Responsible for the annual audit, including day-to-day liaison with the external audit team for year end.
• Coordinating the preparation of audit deliverables with the Finance team and other departments in line with audit timings.
• Redesign and production of Statutory (company only and consolidated) FRS101 & IFRS accounts of all Group Companies (local and overseas).
• Recommending any changes from new/amended accounting standards and implementing them in the Financial Statements as required.
• Proactively supporting the wider Finance team and BI team to help improve the Finance reporting suite as required.
• Ensuring external tax experts prepare the year-end tax computations and returns in line with audit milestones.
• Ad hoc requests from the FC, GFD, or CFO.

Profile

Successful candidate:

• ACA or equivalent qualification.
• Solid accounting experience including statutory accounting, consolidation, and tax.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end statutory audit process, and experience of liaising with auditors.
• Up to date knowledge of the latest accounting standards and how they affect a retail business.
• Experience of producing accurate, high quality, reliable financial information.
• Experience of working with finance systems - Navision preferred.
• Experience of working with BI and reporting systems - Tableau, Smartsheet advantageous.
• Able to work as part of a team and autonomously to deadlines when required.
• Effective communication and organisational skills.
• Have an inherent sense of dependability and accountability.
• Advanced user of MS Excel and intermediate user of MS Word & PowerPoint.
• Possessing strong business awareness and acumen.

Job Offer

Competative day rate

2-3 day a week in the office hybrid approach