Overheads Accountant (Part-Qualified or Qualified)

Location: Home / Remote Based. 1 day per week in Portsmouth Office

Duration: 6 Months

Rate: £200-250 per day LTD, or £160-190 per day PAYE (£40-50kpa equivalent) – Rate with depend on qualified or not.

Hours: 37 Per Week

Techniche are supporting a large corporate Engineering and Technology organisation with appointing an Overheads Accountant (Part-Qualified or Qualified) on an interim basis for initially 6 months.

The role will be based fully remote (home based) during the current lockdown period. It will then remain a remote/home based role for the remainder of the contract, but with occasional office visits (once or twice a week to Portsmouth). Local candidates are preferred due to the ad hoc short notice nature of the office visits.

Experience required:

Part Qualified (ACA or ACCA or ACMA or AAT)
Experience of audit processes
Technical account experience (ideally including IFRS and UK GAAP)
Ability to capture, understand and manipulate data for reporting purposes
Experience with Financial IT applications (Ideally SAP)
Ideally to have had experience in a large corporate organisation with a group reporting structure

Main responsibilities:

Focus on central finance functions
Posting journals
Working towards reports for month end
Month-end financial transactions to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial reporting
Support of Business Unit management accounts on a monthly basis including income statements, balance sheets, working capital, cash management and order book
Support consolidation and presentation of Business Unit results including relevant financial results, variance analysis
Support delivery of Business Unit monthly reporting packs, strategic plan financials, budgets and forecasts
Adherence to all reporting timetables for monthly actuals, budget and forecast submissions
Ensuring compliance with Group Finance policies and procedures (including initial review and challenge of internal audit questionnaires as completed by the Business Unit’s)
Ad-hoc Business Unit reporting, including responding to Sector and Group on urgent technical queries arising in respect of Business Unit submissions.
Ensuring the completeness of response to the external auditors in respect of audit deliverables
Full understanding of ERP structure and implications of changes implemented
Identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the services provided ensuring engagement with individuals who can validate and progress those opportunities.