STATUTORY ACCOUNTANT - PUBLISHING - LONDON
Fantastic opportunity with growing Publishing house for a qualified Statutory Financial Accountant to join the team on a full time permanent basis. Day to day here you will be responsible for role leading on financial accounting and tax, including the production of statutory accounts for 3 entities, to input into the development of the company's IT systems as they relate to Finance, as well as having the opportunity to gain management experience, managing and mentoring the Finance Assistant.
We are looking for someone who is fully qualified with relevant experience either from Practice or a similar industry. We are looking for someone with solid experience in Statutory accounting and good knowledge of UK GAAP.
The role offers hybrid working with an expectation of 3 days in the office and the other 2 from home.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Prepare the consolidations and statutory accounts
- Reconcile from the statutory accounts to management accounts
- Play a lead role in the external audit, acting as a key contact for PwC, preparing and/or reviewing deliverables and responding to audit queries
- Prepare and/or review monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations; book correcting journals as required
- Provide advice on technical accounting issues
- Prepare & submit Office for National Statistics returns
- Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns
- Work with PwC's tax team to complete the annual UK corporation tax computation
- Liaise with and provide input to PwC Italy and Spain to enable the completion of tax returns for the overseas branches
- Prepare the annual PSA return to HMRC
- Assist the business with tax queries
- Manage the accounting for the Volume (crowd funding) platform and other new initiatives
- Prepare and/or review a number of monthly and ad hoc reports for management including KPIs, cash flow, and sales and gross profit analysis
- Produce title profitability reports and financial analysis to support the senior management team in decision making
- Work together with the FP&A team on the preparation of the budget, and of the bi-annual (June/December) re-forecast of business results
- Maintain the cashbook & management accounts
- Input into month-end / management accounting, as required
- Line manage the Finance Assistant, whose responsibilities include credit cards & expenses, cash transactions, bank reconciliations, weekly cash reporting, and non-AP payments
- Review and authorise payments in Barclay's.net
SKILLS:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- A practice background or significant experience of statutory accounts production
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficient IT skills including strong Excel
- Good knowledge of UK GAAP
- Experience of multi-currency international consolidations
- Strong attention to detail
- A team player who understands the bigger picture and impact of decisions
- Self-starter; proactive and keen to make a positive impact
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