Financial Accountant - Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Control

Role: Financial Accountant – Balance Sheet

Reconciliation & Control

Purpose of role: Contribute to the continued development of techniques and the improvement of processes and workflow for the function, delivering a quality & timely service.

Reports to: GL Reconciliation Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for Balance Sheet Reconciliations Process across all Entities.
• Contributes to risk assessments and drives actions to address the root causes that persistently lead to operational risk losses by challenging both historical and proposed practices.
• Evaluates the current set of in-scope Reconciliations & Controls, recommending ways to optimize & further automate.
• Ensure effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams with a quality and timeliness of service provided.
• Continuous review & evolvement of outputs, together with effective reconciliations, ensuring appropriateness of controls in line with business requirements
• Coordinates audits, examinations, and deliverable requirements from internal and external reviewers by supporting coordinating activities within the team.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with internal & external customers and stakeholders through strong business partnering
• Manage team responsible for Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Coach and develop individual team members
• Break down information in a systematic and communicable manner
• Escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience:

• An experienced accounting professional (ACA/ACCA) 3 Years + who has worked in a rapidly growing environment and can bring experience of best practice gained including solid Accounting, Financial reporting and IFRS understanding.
• Excellent technology knowledge and experience with balance sheet reconciliation processes & implementations.
• In depth knowledge & experience in Oracle Financials & Excel
• Teradata and integrated reconciliation process a strong advantage
• Proven track record of managing within shared service type environment and delivering improvement to operating processes and practices
• Ability to lead, develop and motivate high-performance individuals & team
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
• Pro-active about managing change and challenging existing procedures and processes to achieve best practice

Personal attributes

• Excellent planning and organisation skills, ability to multi-task, plan and prioritise work schedule for self and team and work within agreed timescales
• Pro-active and self-starting with proven ability lead and close activities in a structured manner to a high quality
• Result-oriented, focusing on fulfilling management expectations
• Excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview.
• Be a collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal/communication skills, while demonstrating high levels of emotional intelligence.
• Proven ability in developing effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Operates with a high level of integrity, diplomacy, tact and professionalism.
• Effective and persuasive presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information in an understandable manner to all areas of the business.
• Ability to lead, influence and coach others
• Sound judgement, unquestionable ethics and integrity with high degree of transparency and trust
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

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