Financial Accountant

SF Recruitment is pleased to be working in partnership with a local Nottinghamshire business who are looking to recruit a Financial Accountant.
The organisation are a well known employer within the Nottingham area and nationwide, taking pride in offering an excellent working culture alongside attractive employee benefits propositions.

About the role
The Financial Accountant will work as part of a small and highly efficient team to support production of accurate and timely financial statements to management and other stakeholders.
Main duties and responsibilities include:

- Preparation and review of departmental P&L reports for monthly distribution
- Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Preparation and co-ordination of year-end schedules
- Monthly VAT returns
- Payroll journals, analysis and month end reconciliation
- Manage and update the Fixed Assets register, monitoring and controlling spend on capital projects to ensure they don't overrun their budgets.
- Preparation of 16-week cash flow forecast including CAPEX spend tracking and forecasting.
- Assisting with the preparation of budget information
- Ownership of ONS requests for information and surveys.
- Preparation of the annual PSA return
- Management of the companies CDS account
- Provide support to the UK Financial Controller as required
- Ad hoc analyses and reports
- Any other ad-hoc duties that fall within the scope of the role

About you
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years' experience working within an accounts department within a company with revenue of at least £25m per annum.

Other skills and experience required

- ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualified/Part-qualified (though strong QBE candidates will also be considered).
- Strong all-round communicator
- Strong time management skills and ability to work independently
- Hands on and driven with a genuine interest to understanding how the business works
- Adaptable and flexible approach to work
- Must be self-motivated and able to organise & manage their own workload within an extremely busy accounts department.
- Advanced user of Excel would be advantageous. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential.