Senior Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

Reading Area - M4 Corridor

£300-£350 per day

My client are a multi-national telecoms company and are looking for a senior financial accountant for 6 months.

Duties Include:

• Preparing accounting plan for a legal entity consolidation involving (initially) three UK entities and thereafter could expand to more EMEA entities
• Clean up of GL balances in respect of two UK entities prior to consolidation with third UK entity
• Ensuring supporting balance sheet reconciliations prepared & reviewed for balances prior to migration
• Preparing merger trial balance showing various accounting/ tax steps relating to consolidations
• Syncing up with other Finance stakeholders such as Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable on all aspects of the consolidation
• Assisting Finance Manager and EMEA Controller with day to day accounting tasks such as reviewing journal entries for management reporting under US GAAP and balance sheet reconciliations and other ad-hoc day to day tasks

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of core accounting principles, UK & US GAAP and IFRS
• Good planning/time & project management skills
• ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualified (upto five years post qualified with mid-tier/Big 4 accounting firm)
• Accounting and tax entries in respect of legal entity consolidations under UK and US GAAP
• Experience of cleaning up of general ledger balances in entities prior to consolidation