Financial Accountant

Elevation Recruitment Group are excited to be partnering with a fantastic business in Leeds as they look to recruit an experienced Financial Accountant into their team on a full time, permanent basis.
Benefits:

Hybrid working 
Generous salary 
Study Support
Bonus scheme 
Flexible hours 
Duties and responsibilities:

To provide support to the Finance Manager in the timely & accurate submission of the statutory accounts and audit 
Internal controls – finance coordinator. Proactively arranging independent checks and administration of work to specific internal control owners throughout the business
Accruals and prepayments
Management of the accounts payable function including arranging payments to ensure alignment to the cash forecast, reconciliation of statements where applicable, reviewing and approving vendor down payments and assisting with coding of non-PO invoices
Cash forecast coordination. Pulling together the cash forecast with input from payroll and credit control, and reporting on a weekly basis to HQ
Analytically assess and prepare reconciliation with actuals, explaining deviations
Credit card program administrator
Concur administrator duties including assisting users with expense claims, compliance checks and running the monthly BACS claims to employees
Preparing bank reconciliations 
Being the first point of contact for the various bank accounts 
PO, GR and IR investigation and reconciliation
Clearing down of historical items
Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for areas of responsibility
Providing absence cover for Finance Manager
Training of other departments in finance activities such as expenses
Assisting with key events/busy periods throughout the year, including financial year end, audit periods (interim, final and internal), and budget processes
Training to other members of finance team
Person Specification:

Excellent communication skills
Influencing and persuasion skills
Ability to build and maintain relationships
Team working skills & helping others during heavy load times
Organisational skills
Ability to act independently
Flexibility and ability to adapt to change
Attention to detail
Time management
Prioritisation of key tasks
If this role looks of interest then please get in touch or apply now