Deputy Financial Accountant

Deputy Financial Accountant

Posted Today by ARM

£230 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Southampton, Hampshire

Summary: The Deputy Financial Accountant role in Southampton involves coordinating financial accounting processes within the Agency, ensuring effective operations and robust financial controls. Key responsibilities include managing lease accounting, maintaining lease models, and collaborating with Finance Business Partners. The position requires strong communication skills to convey technical accounting principles to non-financial stakeholders. AAT qualification or equivalent is preferred, along with experience in balance sheet accounting.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Running the monthly lease accounting process, including manual journals and reconciliations.
  • Maintenance and development of existing lease models.
  • Quarterly review of transactions for potential new leases and changes.
  • Liaising with Finance Business Partners on lease accounting requirements.
  • Working with minimal supervision and managing concurrent tasks.
  • Proactively resolving issues and communicating effectively with non-financial audiences.

Key Skills:

  • AAT qualified or active studier, and/or qualified/part qualified CCAB professional qualification.
  • Experience in balance sheet accounting.
  • Ability to communicate technical accounting principles to non-finance audiences.
  • Experience in completing reconciliations with large data sets.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
  • Experience with other Microsoft Office products, including Word.

Salary (Rate): £230/day

City: Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Deputy Financial Accountant

Southampton

£220

Contract

ARM have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Financial Accountant, this role co-ordinates the delivery of financial accounting across the Agency, ensuring that processes are effective, a robust financial control environment is maintained, and value for money is obtained.

The Role:

  • Running the monthly lease accounting process. This will include manual monthly journals, reconciliation of lease model balances and reconciliation of combined lease balances.
  • Maintenance and development of existing lease models.
  • Quarterly review of transactions to identify potential new leases and changes to existing leases
  • Liaise and work with Finance Business Partners on lease accounting requirements
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision, deliver to deadline and manage/work on concurrent tasks.
  • Proactive approach to issue resolution
  • Good inter-personal skills and communication to a non-financial community are essential, including verbal and written communication.

Requirements:

  • AAT qualified or active studier, and/or qualified/part qualified CCAB professional qualification.
  • Experience of balance sheet accounting.
  • Demonstrable experience of communicating technical accounting principles to a non-finance audience.
  • Ability to complete reconciliations involving manipulation of large volumes of data and associated problem solving.
  • Intermediate knowledge of using Microsoft Excel is essential.
  • Experience of using other Microsoft office products, including Word.

Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.