Senior Financial Reporting Accountant
- Recruiter
- Karro Food Group
- Location
- Malton
- Salary
- 0-0
- Posted
- 23 Feb 2021
- Closes
- 03 Mar 2021
- Ref
- 375185876
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
A new opportunity has arisen as part of the further expansion of our group finance team within the 850 Food Group (Karro and Youngs Seafood) reporting to the financial reporting manager. You will be required to take the lead in providing high quality technical accounting expertise and play a key role in delivering accurate, relevant and timely financial reporting and support a strong financial control environment for the group. This will require the strong relationships to be developed across the wider finance teams and business.
Key responsibilities:
Take responsibility with the financial reporting manager, for the production of all group and subsidiary statutory financial reporting ensuring accuracy, adherence to deadlines, technical and business relevance
Ensure that all disclosures in the financial statements are supportable and are of audit quality
Assist in the writing and checking of strategic reports and directors' reports
Help drive the accounting policies of the group and develop the accounting policy manual so that it remains fit for purpose
Work with the group tax accountant to ensure statutory responsibilities are meeting a high standard and that compliance risk to the group is minimised
Proactively assist the external audit of financial statements, managing the relationship with the internal audit team and other professional services providers as required
Ad hoc projects as required
Essential skills and experience:
ACA (+ post qualification experience either within practice or industry)
Audit experience preferable
Flexible, able to consistently meet deadlines whilst remaining consistently motivated and focused on delivery
Excellent technical accounting skills
Able to work proactively either independently or as part of a team
Provides appropriate solutions to problems, combined with proven experience of decision making
Appreciates the concept of materiality together with the benefit of detail
Appreciates an excellent control environment and consistently aims for improvement
Demonstrates initiative and maximises opportunities for improvement
Able to build and maintain effective working relationships quickly and effectively with colleagues
Objective, maintains unbiased approach and displays integrity at all times
Excellent communicator (both written and in verbal form to a wide variety of audiences including those at the highest level), whilst also able to adapt style to suit situations
Benefits include:
Competitive salary
25 days holiday per year (plus public hols)
Competitive contributory pension
Life assurance scheme funded by Karro
At Karro we are dedicated to rewarding and enriching the careers of the people who work for us. If you are hardworking, willing to get involved and respond well to a challenging and fast-moving environment, then you will find Karro to be a well-matched employer who will support you at every turn and reward your dedication with support, development and long-term career prospects.
About Karro:
Karro is a leading producer of both fresh and cooked pork products with c. 4,000 employees over 13 sites across the UK and Ireland. The business supplies to retail, foodservice and manufacturing customers across the UK, as well as export customers globally. We have full production chain visibility and our pork is eaten by millions of consumers every year.
Karro is part of the Eight Fifty Group which with the acquisitions of Youngs and Greenland Seafood is now one of the UK's leading multi-protein food businesses, with sites across the UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany and France and sales of circa £1.9 billion
Key responsibilities:
Take responsibility with the financial reporting manager, for the production of all group and subsidiary statutory financial reporting ensuring accuracy, adherence to deadlines, technical and business relevance
Ensure that all disclosures in the financial statements are supportable and are of audit quality
Assist in the writing and checking of strategic reports and directors' reports
Help drive the accounting policies of the group and develop the accounting policy manual so that it remains fit for purpose
Work with the group tax accountant to ensure statutory responsibilities are meeting a high standard and that compliance risk to the group is minimised
Proactively assist the external audit of financial statements, managing the relationship with the internal audit team and other professional services providers as required
Ad hoc projects as required
Essential skills and experience:
ACA (+ post qualification experience either within practice or industry)
Audit experience preferable
Flexible, able to consistently meet deadlines whilst remaining consistently motivated and focused on delivery
Excellent technical accounting skills
Able to work proactively either independently or as part of a team
Provides appropriate solutions to problems, combined with proven experience of decision making
Appreciates the concept of materiality together with the benefit of detail
Appreciates an excellent control environment and consistently aims for improvement
Demonstrates initiative and maximises opportunities for improvement
Able to build and maintain effective working relationships quickly and effectively with colleagues
Objective, maintains unbiased approach and displays integrity at all times
Excellent communicator (both written and in verbal form to a wide variety of audiences including those at the highest level), whilst also able to adapt style to suit situations
Benefits include:
Competitive salary
25 days holiday per year (plus public hols)
Competitive contributory pension
Life assurance scheme funded by Karro
At Karro we are dedicated to rewarding and enriching the careers of the people who work for us. If you are hardworking, willing to get involved and respond well to a challenging and fast-moving environment, then you will find Karro to be a well-matched employer who will support you at every turn and reward your dedication with support, development and long-term career prospects.
About Karro:
Karro is a leading producer of both fresh and cooked pork products with c. 4,000 employees over 13 sites across the UK and Ireland. The business supplies to retail, foodservice and manufacturing customers across the UK, as well as export customers globally. We have full production chain visibility and our pork is eaten by millions of consumers every year.
Karro is part of the Eight Fifty Group which with the acquisitions of Youngs and Greenland Seafood is now one of the UK's leading multi-protein food businesses, with sites across the UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany and France and sales of circa £1.9 billion