Financial Accountant

Financial Reporting & Close Support 

• Support the monthly close process, including preparation and review of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet outputs. 
• Work closely with PBS during pre-close and close cycles, helping to ensure data completeness, timely issue resolution, and accurate reporting. 
• Prepare and review accruals and prepayments, ensuring calculations are accurate, supported, and aligned to business activity. 
• Support review of monthly results by investigating variances, explaining movements in key balances, and preparing commentary for review by the Financial Controller. 

Balance Sheet Management & Analysis 

• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accounts are fully supported, accurate, and cleared on a timely basis. 
• Review and analyse balance sheet movements, identifying unusual items and escalating potential risks or opportunities to the Financial Controller. 
• Support the tracking and review of contingencies, provisions, and accruals, ensuring appropriate documentation and timely follow-up. 
• Support fixed asset accounting activities, including monitoring Assets Under Construction, ensuring timely capitalisation and depreciation, and assisting with impairment review preparation. 

Controls, SOX & Governance 

• Execute, evidence, and document SOX controls, ensuring adherence to internal control requirements and company timelines. 
• Support the maintenance of strong financial governance by following company policies, procedures, and approval requirements. 
• Identify control issues, process gaps, or compliance risks and escalate appropriately with suggested actions where possible. 

Statutory, Tax & Regulatory Support 

• Support the preparation of statutory reporting and filings, building knowledge of local reporting requirements while ensuring accuracy and timely completion. 
• Assist with tax and regulatory reporting requirements by preparing supporting schedules, reconciliations, and analysis where required. 
• Provide support for internal and external audits, including data preparation, query resolution, and follow-up of audit actions. 

Stakeholder Collaboration & Business Support 

• Work with colleagues across Finance, PBS, Tax, Legal, Supply Chain, Commercial, and other business functions to support accurate reporting, issue resolution, and delivery of finance priorities. 
• Build effective working relationships across countries and teams, adapting communication style to different stakeholders, cultures, and ways of working. 
• Support the Financial Controller with ad hoc analysis, queries, and business requests as priorities evolve. 
• Contribute to clear communication between local markets, shared service teams, and functional experts to help ensure alignment and timely resolution of open items. 

Projects, Process Improvement & Learning 

• Support finance projects and process improvement initiatives, helping to simplify ways of working and strengthen reporting accuracy. 
• Take ownership of personal development by building technical accounting knowledge, systems capability, and understanding of company policies. 
• Develop confidence in using ERP systems, finance tools, and data to support analysis, reporting, and decision-making. 
• Seek feedback and apply learning to improve accuracy, efficiency, and contribution to the team 

Technical & Professional 

• Good understanding of accounting principles, applied to reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, reporting and analysis. 
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to investigate variances and explain movements clearly 
• Good attention to detail, with a focus on accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery. 
• Willingness to develop technical accounting knowledge and build confidence within a finance environment. 

Experience & Qualifications 

• Degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. 
• Studying towards, or interested in pursuing, a professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA. 
• Previous experience in a finance, accounting, shared services, apprenticeship, or placement role would be advantageous. 

Systems & Tools 

• Good Excel skills, including formulas, data organisation, lookups, pivot tables, and Power Query. 
• Experience using ERP or finance systems, such as SAP, Oracle, or similar, would be advantageous. 
• Comfortable working with data and learning new systems, reporting tools, and finance processes. 

Personal Attributes 

• Curious and proactive, with a willingness to ask questions, learn and take ownership. 
• Proactive, positive and solution-oriented, contributing to continuous improvement across processes and ways of working. 
• Able to communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels, across finance and non-finance teams. 
• Flexible and adaptable, able to manage priorities and work at pace in a busy finance environment. 
• Collaborative approach, building effective working relationships across different departments, countries, teams and ways of working.