Financial Reporting Accountant

Location: Chester | Excellent career opportunity

Salary: up to £70k

15-month fixed term contract

Are you a qualified finance professional looking for your next challenge in a fast-paced, growing environment? This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Financial Reporting Accountant to take on a broad role, combining statutory reporting, technical accounting and financial control.

Working closely with senior finance leadership, you'll play a key role in maintaining robust financial controls, delivering accurate financial information and supporting ongoing business growth and change initiatives. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys getting into the detail while also contributing to wider financial and commercial objectives.

The Role

As Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll take ownership of a varied portfolio of responsibilities, including:

• Statutory Reporting: Preparing individual legal entity and consolidated financial statements, alongside coordinating the statutory audit process.
• Financial Accounting: Managing monthly accounting activities for holding companies and other group entities, ensuring accurate reporting, reconciliations and foreign currency accounting.
• Tax Compliance: Supporting corporation tax compliance and liaising with external advisers to ensure timely and accurate submissions.
• Financial Control: Maintaining a strong control environment, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data as operations continue to grow.
• Financial Services Reporting: Acting as a key finance contact for lending and asset-based finance activities, producing financial results and supporting effective financial oversight.
• Covenant Reporting: Preparing and maintaining financial covenant reporting to support ongoing compliance requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributing to change management projects and helping improve financial processes, systems and reporting.
• Systems & Data: Acting as a key user of the accounting system, with a focus on data accuracy, efficient processes and reliable financial information.

What We're Looking For

We're keen to hear from technically strong finance professionals who combine excellent attention to detail with the confidence to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.

You'll ideally bring:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification, with at least two years' post-qualification experience.
• Previous experience in financial accounting, ideally with an external audit background.
• Strong knowledge of UK GAAP, particularly FRS 102.
• Experience preparing statutory accounts and consolidated financial statements.
• A working knowledge of corporation tax and VAT, including partial exemption.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with general ledgers, reconciliations and financial data.
• The ability to analyse complex information, reconcile cash flows and support financial modelling.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships across different stakeholder groups.
• A proactive, adaptable approach and the ability to thrive in a changing, fast-moving environment.

Desirable Experience

Experience within financial services would be advantageous, particularly in lending, leasing, factoring, invoice finance, discounting or asset-based lending.

Why Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing finance function in a role offering genuine breadth and responsibility. You'll gain exposure to complex group reporting, technical accounting, financial controls and senior-level stakeholder engagement, while contributing to ongoing improvements across the finance function.

If you're looking for a role where you can apply your technical expertise, broaden your experience and make a meaningful contribution, we'd love to hear from you.

Interested? Apply today to find out more.

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