Accountant

Our client, a leading media organisation, are looking for an Accountant – R2R to join their busy finance team. The Record to Report (R2R) function is responsible for providing accurate and timely financial information, which is used for business partner decision making within their business units.

The role will be based at their shared service centre in Leicester city centre working across their group of publications and reports into the R2R Manager and works closely with the Management Accountants.

We are preferably seeking someone that is in the middle of their ACCA studies with previous experience of working on month end procedures and assisting management accountants.

This position will be office based through the initial training period and will then move into a hybrid role.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Prepare, reconcile and analyse monthly management accounts
• Ensure the maintenance of effective and rigorous controls over all R2R processes
• Perform monthly tasks required by the business including calculate bad debt provisions, accruals and prepayments, process intercompany transactions, calculate bonus/commission provisions, perform reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and assist in the production of financial analysis
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting process
• Liaise with business finance and management accountants to quickly reconcile queries

Skills and experience required:

• Previous experience of working within multi-site group structures desirable
• Studying ACA / ACCA or CIMA
• Good working knowledge of R2R processes
• Minimum of 3 years relevant accounting experience
• Strong knowledge of Excel (Pivot tables / VLOOKUPs)
• Good attention to detail and the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to demanding deadlines
• Pro-active approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions

Hours of work:

• Monday to Thursday 8.30am – 5pm OR 9.00am – 5.30pm (1-hour lunch)

Salary and benefits:

• Up to £28,000
• 25 days holiday per annum (rises by 1 day per year of service to 30 days max)
• Life assurance
• Employee benefits scheme
• Pension scheme
• Hybrid working after training period