Finance – Accountant & Bookkeeper
Uvation
Group Financial Controller
Aptitude Software
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Accountable for effective operation and delivery of the Global Finance Department
- Oversee all accounting and reporting processes for Aptitude Software
- Manage preparation of annual and interim reports and other statutory reporting requirements
- Act as primary point of contact for external auditors during reporting processes
- Support global corporation tax filings and investor relations reporting
- Develop and maintain internal financial control processes and drive process improvements
- Recognise and mitigate financial risk, applying commercial decision-making
- Manage finance and accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, management accounts, external reporting and banking relationships
- Provide support and complete ad hoc projects (eg implementing Fynapse, US sales taxability)
- Mentor and develop finance team members and contribute to internal communications and company culture
Requirements
- Must be ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Knowledge and understanding of financial business cycles and ability to design, implement and operate controls to ensure accuracy of accounting and safeguarding of company resources
- Coordinating and directing the preparation of monthly management accounts and report variances against forecast concisely to the business
- Preparing and publishing full and half yearly statutory reporting
- Ability to assist in the development of members of the finance team and provide advice and guidance where required
- Ability to produce high quality, accurate results under significant time pressure
- Advanced Excel skills
- PowerBI skills beneficial
- Self-driven and able to work with minimal direction, prioritising effectively
- Able to quickly identify issues and address them before they build up to a larger problem
- Strong management skills
- Concise, meaningful and timely communication skills on all levels
- Hands on approach
- Applying a risk conscious and commercial mindset to decisions
