Group Financial Reporting Consultant
Axon Moore are working exclusively with an ambitious, high growth, AIM listed organisation with a turnover in excel of 100 million who are growing both organically and via acquisitions
The Group finance function, comprising fifteen staff, is located in South Manchester. It provides a full suite of accounting, reporting, budgeting, and compliance services. Currently it is undergoing a program of transformation, focussed on automating many of these processes and building further capabilities for value added analysis.
The Group uses five inventory management and invoicing systems, information from which flows into the one central accounting systems, Sage 200 through a mix of automated and manual links.
We are looking for an experienced Financial Accountant to cover whilst we find the perfect permanent hire.
Duties:
- Unaudited interim results for half year ended June, announcement in late Aug 2024.
- Supervise preparation of IFRS 16 lease accounts.
- Write papers for application of IFRS 15 for large contracts, support for Grant Thornton.
- Write paper on capitalisation of employee costs to projects.
- Year-end Consolidation and Annual Reports for the plc and four UK subsidiaries.
- Query support for tax returns preparation on behalf of KPMG.
- Query support for financial accounts preparation for Republic of Ireland, Dutch and Belgium entities.
- Monthly statutory accounts, income statement, balance sheet and cashflow.
- Monthly accruals for interest on loan and corporation tax.
- Ad hoc statutory and financial work for external/internal partners.
- Provide technical support and coaching for transactional and management accounting team.
Person Specifications:
- Qualified Accountant
- Excellent knowledge of multiple entity, multiple currency consolidation of accounts under IFRS and FRS 101 and technical knowledge of the latest IFRS’s including 15 for contract revenue and 16 for leases.
- Advanced Excel is a pre-requisite.
- Prior experience in manufacturing or engineering organisation is advantageous but not essential.
- Excellent stakeholder skills
- Comfortable working in multiple accounting systems.
- Attention to detail and numerical skills are a pre-requisite.