Senior Financial Accountant
Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hammersmith • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and execute the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes to meet internal and group reporting timelines.
- Prepare and review key journals, reconciliations and supporting schedules.
- Produce management reporting outputs and factual variance commentary, collaborating closely with the Senior Finance Manager on commercial interpretation.
- Ensure compliance with group reporting frameworks, accounting policies, and IFRS/UK GAAP requirements.
- Act as the primary coordinator for external audit, ensuring clear documentation, reconciliations, and process transparency.
- Support preparation of statutory accounts and regulatory reporting.
- Monitor changes in accounting standards, industry practices, and group policy updates.
- Maintain strong financial control standards across inventory, promotional spend, balance sheet items and financial operations.
- Identify and drive improvements in the efficiency, accuracy and automation of reporting and month-end routines.
- Document and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and control frameworks.
- Work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Commercial Finance and the Senior Finance Manager to ensure accurate data flows and understanding of financial drivers.
- Collaborate with the AP/AR Supervisor to ensure ledger accuracy and control, without performing transactional processing.
- Provide technical accounting guidance to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Requirements
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong financial reporting and month-end close experience ideally in FMCG, manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, or similar operationally complex environments.
- Experience with inventory and cost accounting (e.g., standard costing, variances, landed cost, stock reconciliations, promotional allowances)
- Experienced in working within group reporting environments with tight deadlines and defined standards.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency with ERP/accounting systems.
- Proven track record in improving processes, controls and reporting accuracy.
- Experience in high-growth or scale-up organisations (Desirable)
- Familiarity with group consolidation systems (e.g., BPC, HFM, OneStream, Cognos, NetSuite, SAP) (Desirable)
- Exposure to continuous improvement, automation, or Lean methodology (Desirable)
Benefits
- Competitive + bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial reportingmonth-end closeinventory accountingcost accountingstandard costingvariance analysisstatutory accounts preparationregulatory reportingprocess improvementautomation
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationattention to detailproblem-solvingorganizational skills
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA