Financial Reporting Accountant

Financial Reporting Accountant 

Location: Speke - Liverpool (Hybrid working)

Duration: 12 months 

Pay rate: £168.30

• The role is part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for Financial Accounting for one or more Entity to deliver accurate and timely execution of Financial Accounting activities. 

• This role will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting across the set of entity codes. 

• It also includes support for projects and continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners for escalations. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.

• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation & property taxes).

• Perform reconciliations, including from Clarity for CAPEX, IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations.

• Identify reconciliation issues between Clarity, SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion.

• Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages & salaries accounting, share-based calculations & reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation & benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts.

• Support preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss, Balance sheet and cashflow statement. With support of reporting manager.

• Prepare and load data from the budgeting & planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities.

• Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow.

• Process manual settlements in SAP (outside of RPA process).

• Complete IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) adjustment calculations and share with Controlling & Reporting for review. With support of reporting manager.

• Support for internal and external audit requests, including providing documentation of AP (Accounts Payable) invoices to auditors. 

Qualifications and Experience:

• ACCA/ACA/CPA/CMA if application through newly qualified experience. If application through experience only no qualification required.

• Newly exam qualified and/or qualified by experience (5+ years in relevant role).