Financial Accountant
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Assistant Financial Accountant responsible for general ledger management and financial reporting in education solutions provider. Collaborating with FP&A teams for variance analysis and reconciliations.
Responsibilities:
- Maintenance of general ledgers including revenue and staff expenses postings, accruals, prepayments and other general ledger journals
- Liaise with the FP&A team to explain monthly variances to budget and YoY
- Ensure consistency and accuracy of coding of invoices, expenses and other items
- Ensure all payroll journals are correctly posted
- Preparation of monthly balance sheet presentation journals
- Prepare schedules for the year-end audit and interim audit
- Completing actuals for liquidity reporting
- Completion of ONS returns when necessary.
- Prepare monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, including unearned revenue, accruals and prepayments.
- Ensure differences are identified and resolved
- Investigate Study Global and other systems related issues as required
- Prepare fixed asset capitalisations on Agresso fixed asset module
- Approval of Payments on HSBC banking system.
- Develop and maintain internal relationships with the Commercial team and Group Financial Control Team
- Liaison with auditors at interim and year-end audit
- Assist the Senior Financial Accountant or the Commercial team with ad hoc project work as required
- Involvement in Finance team projects e.g. finance systems
Requirements:
- ACCA/ACA/CIMA studier
- Preparation of general ledger journals
- Completion of complex and high volume balance sheet reconciliations.
- Investigating and resolving reconciling items
- Ability to communicate effectively and convey technical information to non-finance audiences
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Relationship management and customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to work effectively in a team
- Good working knowledge of accountancy systems (Agresso and Study Global a strong advantage)
- Intermediate level Excel functions
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development budget
- Home office setup allowance
- Global team events


















