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Group Financial Accountant
Cheadle - Hybrid 3 days in office/2 home
£60-65k plus bonus
Exciting opportunity to join a leading tech business who operate internationally and will report into the Finance Director – EMEA & Global Shared Services who is extremely supportive and able to develop keen individuals.
This role will suit a Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA Financial Accountant with experience in multi entity/multi-currency business and will have responsibility delivering financial accounting services to internal and external stakeholders and adding value to the business by sound tax and VAT management.
Key responsibilities
- Managing external statutory reporting and overseeing the audit process for the multi-entity and multi-currency Swiss Group and subsidiary accounts (one trading company and one holding company).
- Monthly preparation of the group consolidation, incorporating significant judgment areas.
- Monthly reporting to shareholders and banks.
- Preparing monthly financial accounts for the Swiss entities, including full balance sheet reconciliations.
- Reviewing accounting entries to ensure the financial ledger's integrity.
- Invoice and payment run approvals
- Ensuring internal and external reporting deadlines are achieved.
- Ensure local (Swiss) GAAP and IFRS compliance requirements are met.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including external fiscal authorities (tax/VAT).
- Assisting in calculating and maintaining tax balances in the ledger.
- Assisting in the implementation of the group's transfer pricing policy.
- Managing the group's WHT position, including the recovery and submission of CT61s.
- Managing group debt arrangements.
Qualifications
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (3 years post qualification experience with strong technical accounting/compliance background - exposure to Swiss GAAP and IFRS advantageous)
- Experience in preparing group consolidations with multi-currency entities in the UK
- Problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities
- Strong IT skills
- High level of accuracy
- Experience in finance projects and systems improvements.
- Strong business partnering and interpersonal skills.
- Oracle NetSuite experience advantageous or other ERP systems
Full right to work permanently UK and relevant UK experience is essential as no sponsorship is available.
