Financial Accountant

Elevation Recruitment Group are excited to be partnering with a fantastic business in Leeds as they look to recruit an experienced Financial Accountant into their team on a full time, permanent basis. Benefits:

• Hybrid working 
• Generous salary 
• Study Support
• Bonus scheme 
• Flexible hours 

Duties and responsibilities:

• To provide support to the Finance Manager in the timely & accurate submission of the statutory accounts and audit 
• Internal controls – finance coordinator. Proactively arranging independent checks and administration of work to specific internal control owners throughout the business
• Accruals and prepayments
• Management of the accounts payable function including arranging payments to ensure alignment to the cash forecast, reconciliation of statements where applicable, reviewing and approving vendor down payments and assisting with coding of non-PO invoices
• Cash forecast coordination. Pulling together the cash forecast with input from payroll and credit control, and reporting on a weekly basis to HQ
• Analytically assess and prepare reconciliation with actuals, explaining deviations
• Credit card program administrator
• Concur administrator duties including assisting users with expense claims, compliance checks and running the monthly BACS claims to employees
• Preparing bank reconciliations 
• Being the first point of contact for the various bank accounts 
• PO, GR and IR investigation and reconciliation
• Clearing down of historical items
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for areas of responsibility
• Providing absence cover for Finance Manager
• Training of other departments in finance activities such as expenses
• Assisting with key events/busy periods throughout the year, including financial year end, audit periods (interim, final and internal), and budget processes
• Training to other members of finance team

Person Specification:

• Excellent communication skills
• Influencing and persuasion skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Team working skills & helping others during heavy load times
• Organisational skills
• Ability to act independently
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to change
• Attention to detail
• Time management
• Prioritisation of key tasks

If this role looks of interest then please get in touch or apply now!