Interim Financial Accountant

The key responsibilities in this role:

• Management of the External Audit and Statutory Reporting Processes for the subsidiary.
• Quarterly preparation of VAT returns.
• Responsible for corporate tax filings, liaising with Group Tax for the tax computation, providing any additional analysis and support for amounts required.
• Responsible for ensuring that a robust and efficient control environment is in place which is compliant with Group guidelines controls. Oversight of activities with Internal audit and remediation plans/projects required working with Operational Finance to ensure that these are resolved.
• Ownership of subsidiary budgets and forecasts reporting and associated processes.
• Preparation of balance sheet forecasts.
• Regular review and reporting of performance against plan and latest forecasts.
• Preparation of monthly management reporting process, including internal reporting submission to Group.
• Ownership of and continuous improvement of balance sheet reconciliations.

Other requirement for Group:

• Support on all other External Reporting requirements including but not limited to provision of insurance information, other branch/operational filings, ONS returns. Supporting on balance sheet reconciliation and review process. Drive continuous improvement across this area and process. Provide coaching where required and support on resolution of any unreconciled amounts and alignment to best practice.
• Support the Finance Reporting team with ad-hoc financial projects, reports and analysis.
• Support on intercompany recharges, cost allocations as and when required, implementation and development of accounting for recharges and intercompany transactions.