Senior Financial Accountant

Company Description

Allegis Global Solutions is founded on a culture that is passionate about transforming the way the world acquires talent by delivering client-focused solutions that make a difference for businesses worldwide. From refining how you manage your contingent workforce to strengthening your employer brand to recruit top talent, our integrated talent solutions drive the business results you need. 

As an industry leader, we draw upon decades of experience to design innovative tools, products and processes. We develop competitive practices that position organizations for growth and we deliver the insight needed to succeed in today’s global marketplace.

Job Description

We’re recruiting for a Senior Financial Accountant within our AGS EMEA Financial Reporting Team to be responsible for the production of timely, accurate and relevant management accounts and financial statements whilst ensuring tight internal controls are in place. You will have responsibility for entities assigned to you, which will include production of P&Ls, balance sheets, variance analysis and assist with producing the budget. You will have line management responsibility for 2 Accounts Assistants who oversee the bank accounts and run the intercompany process – covering our EMEA entities.

Your Opportunity

You will be responsible for:

• Production and review of the Monthly Management Accounts
• Ensure monthly reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts including client reconciliations, prepayments, accruals, payroll and tax related accounts.
• Direct management of 2 team members.
• To produce the monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly VAT returns and reconciliations.
• To produce the monthly, quarterly and annual EC sales returns and reconciliations.
• To manage, produce and journal all the intercompany charges.
• To ensure bank reconciliations are accurate and completed in a timely manner.
• To produce a full monthly commentary on each entity analysing performance against key KPIs.
• Support with the production of year end statutory accounts and work with the auditors during their fieldwork.
• To assist in production of annual overhead budget from the bottom up.

Qualifications

• Part Qualified (ACCA/CIMA)
• Strong working knowledge of excel. Specifically know how to use and setup; VLOOKUPs, SUMIF & Pivot Tables.
• Fully PC literate with a working knowledge of other MS Office packages, an aptitude for continual learning and development with different systems applications and multiple software packages
• Ability to use IT packages (mainly Excel) to analyse and manipulate data.
• Strong problem solving capabilities, strong analytical skills, numerate and flexibility to handle multiple tasks concurrently
• Capable of working competently with diverse groups of people, data and processes accommodating an ever changing environment.

The role will be a hybrid working set-up at Bracknell office and home. 

Additional Information

As a workplace, we focus on relationships – with each other, our clients and our candidates - in fact serving others is one of our core values. We support open communication and recognize that giving constructive criticism can be even harder than receiving it. We appreciate the fearless and the passionate, who force us to be better. Everything we do sits on a pillar of diversity - diverse perspectives, backgrounds and ideas drive innovation and make us successful.

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