Financial Accountant - Milton Keynes - £40k-£45k

Macildowie Associates ,
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000 per annum

Overview

Financial Accountant - Milton Keynes - £40,000-£45,000 Are you a technically strong Financial Accountant or Auditor looking for a core accounting role? Perhaps you enjoy the technical aspects of your role but feel as though you are missing out on the opportunity to really see things through with that one business you enjoy working with. You might have long-term ambitions to manage a team without the possibility to progress in your current business. This Financial Accountant role will provide a newly-qualified accountant with a technical accounting or audit background with a smooth transition into industry whilst giving you plenty of new areas of finance to get your teeth stuck into. You will utilise your knowledge of accounting standards to implement effective financial controls and your financial compliance/audit knowledge will allow you to make sure that the business is compliant with financial reporting obligations externally. Working for a business that lives and breathes flexibility with a genuinely agile working environment and a culture which fits work around life and not the other way around. That's not to say they don't work hard - career development and progression is high on employee priority lists and you will have the opportunity to move through the business based on the quality of what you do. Financial Accountant - Key Duties: Prepare statutory financial statements for the Group in line with IFRS accounting standards Improve the quality of monthly financial reporting provided to senior management Manage balance sheet reconciliations and implementation of new accounting standards Work closely with internal and external audit functions to oversee year-end Provide analysis and insight into financial performance to the wider group Implement robust controls around VAT and corporation tax reporting. This is a business which likes to give people the chance to rotate and progress around different functions. You'll be coming into a Financial Accounting role so realistically there will be limited commercial exposure initially, but people have in the past moved from the financial reporting team into Finance Business Partner or Commercially-focused roles. If you're looking to move into a business that not just offers progression but can demonstrate it then this would be one for you. You will be ACCA or ACA qualified (or approaching final stages). The role would be well suited to a practice trained accountant but also a great move for anyone already working in industry with an excellent technical accounting and controls background. Excellent benefits package on offer with an above-market-rate bonus and company benefits. Very flexible working environment with a culture which allows working from home and treats it's employees like grown ups Get in touch to discuss or apply through the link Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at http://www.macildowie.com. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. After applying for this role you'll be sent a request for your consent to hold your data on our systems. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise.