Hays Senior Finance have been retained by an international construction and infrastructure management company to recruit a qualified Financial Accountant based in their Warrington offices two days a week. This growing and successful company has a number of different projects and sites at various stages of development from planning, in-build and fully developed. The sites and projects vary in complexity and size, and therefore are all accounted for individually. Due to continued growth and internal promotion we are looking to recruit a qualified accountant who is looking to move from Practice or potentially a second mover from another Financial Accounting role.

As Financial Accountant you will take ownership of UK financial reporting for multiple entities which loosely form a consolidated Group. The role is responsible for preparing annual statutory financial statements under UK GAAP (FRS 102) and IFRS, supporting group consolidations, and overseeing UK corporation tax returns prepared by external tax advisors.

Key responsibilities include:

• Prepare annual statutory financial statements for UK entities under UK GAAP (FRS 102) and IFRS
• Lead the year-end close process and act as a key point of contact for external auditors
• Prepare year-end journals, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules
• Maintain accounting policies and document UK GAAP / IFRS differences and adjustments
• Prepare HoldCo management accounts and perform inter company reconciliations
• Prepare lender and debt reporting, including covenant calculations and compliance certificates
• Review UK corporation tax returns prepared by external tax advisors and coordinate tax information
• Support tax provisions and disclosures within annual financial statements

This is the perfect first move into Industry and there is definite career progression within a growing company that has a complete finance department, including all transactional processing right through to statutory accounts. The finance team is 12–15 people and team management will follow at an appropriate time. The client is quite clear on the profile they are looking to recruit so please only apply if you are a UK resident with the relevant training in Practice.

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