Financial Reporting Accountant

Meraki Talent Limited ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £40-45,000 + Full Benefits

Overview

This Financial Reporting Accountant with a global asset management company is a brilliant opportunity for a recently qualified accountant (1-5 years' PQE) to add real value to the finance team. The role offers a good blend of technical accounting and project work and is well suited to someone looking for a rewarding career in finance. As Financial Reporting Accountant, you will be responsible for ensuring key financial and regulatory reporting deliverables are produced to a high standard and on a timely basis. This extends to ensuring that a robust control environment and clear process documentation exists to validate financial data, support key financial outcomes and cross training initiatives. This role will also be expected to support and where required lead team and group wide projects and work collaboratively across the team, wider finance function and external business units to deliver insight and support business decision making. Duties will include:​ Month end reporting – Collation and input of month end journals, as well as timely and well understood financial analytics to provide insight and support business decision making. This includes working collaboratively across the finance function and beyond to understand key inputs and trends within the financial results. Quarter end reporting – Plan and execute all board, regulatory and group reporting outputs where required including succinct analytics for presentation to senior business stakeholders. This includes managing expectations of senior stakeholders regarding the delivery of key reporting outputs. Year end reporting – Support and deliver timely inputs to the group reporting process, as well as plan and execute statutory reporting outputs. This includes coordinating the delivery of information to the auditors. Projects – Where required support and lead on team and group wider projects to support the strategic direction of the finance function. Technical resolution – Interpret key accounting and regulatory technical matters for presentation and agreement with the Financial Control Manager. Processes & control – Prepare and maintain key process documentation for reporting processes and ensure robust controls are in place to support key reporting outcomes. This includes reporting reconciliations and ensuring processes are continuously challenged to deliver efficiencies and value add across the finance function. Stakeholder engagement – Working collaboratively with peers across the finance function and wider business units to deliver business insight and contribute to a best in class finance function. Learning & development – Taking responsibility for developing both technical and softer skills to ensure continuous personal development and deliver insight and value add across the finance function. To be successful, it is envisaged that you will be a qualified accountant with some post-qualifying experience, ideally in an asset management or other financial services environment. Up to date technical and regulatory knowledge would be desirable, and it is expected that you will be a self-starter who is credible in front of senior stakeholders. This role is interviewing now, so if you are interested, please get in touch straight away. Our client is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from everyone. By submitting your information, you confirm you have read and understood our Privacy Notice which outlines how we use information we collect about you. Please see our website page headed ‘Privacy Notice’ for an explanation about how we use information we collect about you

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