Group Financial Accountant
Job Summary
The Role
- The Group Financial Accountant will be part of the Group Finance team and responsible for supporting the Group Reporting Manager in preparing high quality external reporting of the Groups financial performance position and cashflow.
Principal Accountabilities
- Monthly preparation of the Groups consolidated Income Statement Balance Sheet and Cashflow for inclusion in the reporting to the Groups owners and lenders
- Preparing analysis on all material movements in the balance sheet cashflow and P&L below EBITDA.
- Preparing high quality external audit schedules and responses to auditor questions
- Preparing an initial draft of the Group and UK subsidiary financial statements
- Posting all consolidation intercompany transfer pricing and P&L items below EBITDA journals each month
KEY INTERFACES
- Tax & Treasury teams
- Commercial Finance team
- External auditors
- Group Financial Operations team
Qualifications :
We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Experience
- At least 1 years experience in a similar role
- Preparing consolidated accounts under IFRS
- Preparing UK subsidiary accounts under UK GAAP
- Qualified accountant
- Working in complex external audit processes
Desirable
- NetSuite ERP experience
- Caseware accounts preparation software experience
Skills and Knowledge
- Strong attention to detail
- Good knowledge of excel
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Ability to build relationships with other team members and departments
- Able to resolve queries in a timely manner
- The ability to work to targets achieving objectives and meeting strict deadlines
- Excellent English communication skills both verbal and written
Behaviours and Characteristics
- Enthusiastic proactive and keen to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- Passionate about the continuous improvement of processes
- Demonstrate an appropriate level of professional scepticism to ensure complete and accurate delivery of financial information
- Results deadline and quality driven.
- Use own initiative to identify problems and deliver solutions to meet deadlines
- Confidence and desire to take responsibility for deliverables
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong time management skills and the ability to meet and/or exceed deadlines.
- Ability to manage conflict complexity and challenging targets.
If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information :
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.
We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.
Youve read a little about us now its over to you!
If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.
Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
About Company
Who we are Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, of ... View more