Financial Accountant

As a Financial Accountant you will manage the financial accounting function, leading a team of two accounts assistants to ensure the effective and timely maintenance of company ledgers and ensuring all financial transactions are complete and accurate.

Objectives:

• To manage the financial accounting function, ensuring that all financial transactions are completely and accurately recorded and reported within both corporate and statutory timescales.
• To support the FD with the provision of timely and appropriate information to measure the business, and in any ad-hoc projects arising.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Monthly management accounts.
• Annual statutory accounts, including managing the statutory audit.
• Annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting.
• Monthly cash flow reporting and forecasting.
• Annual corporation tax computation.
• Accurate and timely submission of VAT and Intrastat reporting for all relevant territories.
• Implementation and monitoring of procedures, controls and standards for financial reporting so that all transactions are accurately and promptly recorded.
• Leading a team of 2 accounts assistants, ensuring that the ledgers are maintained in a co-ordinated, effective and timely manner.
• Liaising with relevant internal and external personnel to resolve any problems arising in a timely manner.
• Maintaining and, as necessary, refining the finance processes and cycles (continuous improvement).

OUR BENEFITS

• Salary benchmarked against the 400 biggest companies in the UK
• 10% Employer pension contribution (providing a 4% employee contribution)
• Bonus Scheme
• Travel Allowance
• Private Healthcare
• Free ZEISS lenses for you and discounted ZEISS lenses for your friends and family

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We're Carl Zeiss Vision UK, based in Birmingham; an exciting place to work, where individuals make a real difference every day. As part of the ZEISS group, we are an international leader in the field of optics, with over 34,000 employees across 50 countries around the globe.

As the branded leader in lenses, we offer premium and pioneering products; innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our brand enhances the lives and vision of millions of people around the world. In fact, 2 people every second put their trust in ZEISS lenses.

We are proud of our heritage and have been at the forefront of scientific discovery and innovation since our creation in 1846. We are a foundation; this means we reinvest 12% of our revenue to fund research and education, supporting progress within the optical industry and across the community.

We are more successful today than we have ever been, having celebrated double digit growth for the past ten years. We're not stopping here because we are focused on accelerating our growth even further, aiming to double our revenue by 2025. If you want to be part of making this difference, then Carl Zeiss Vision UK is the right place for you!

We are currently trialing a hybrid working model until early 2022 working three days in the office and two days at home. This is not a permanent change at this stage so candidates need to be prepared to work Mon-Fri on site.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes.