Informa - Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

• Responsible for the monthly close process of the Management Accounts; Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. Details include; Reconciliations, Accruals, Allocations, Revenue downloads, Pre-payments, Variance Analysis and commentary in accordance with the published timetable
• Responsible for maintaining compliance with control policy and procedures within the Global Accounting team
• Ensure Balance Sheet reconciliations are completed in accordance with Balance Sheet Integrity guidelines and control frameworks
• Ensure that issues are escalated as appropriate to your Financial Controller in a timely manner.
• Responsible for Financial Reporting and Analysis including Group reporting, supplementary packs and ad-hoc requests
• Publish financial results in the relevant finance systems
• Ensure communications are handled between the SSO, Group finance and the Business Teams
• To be involved with any acquisition integration/due diligence
• Working on projects including key process testing & systems
• Working with internal and external auditors
• Analyse and solve Ad-hoc problems using knowledge of business and systems
• Embrace change and continuously seek out improvements
  
  Strong academic background
• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience of leading an R2R team within a large finance function
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of all R2R processes including best practice in R2R, people, processes and technology
• Confident in how to lead and guide a team through challenging periods.
• Be able to manage competing priorities and achieving deadlines, whilst delivering a high standard of work and supporting the team as and when needed.
• Solid at building relationships with stakeholders within and outside of the organisation.
• Evidence of making decisions at the right time based on the information available.
• Good presentation skills
Skills & Abilities
• Good communication skills with the ability to build good relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, internal departments and key contacts
• Proficient skills in Excel, Word and Outlook are essential, and SAP experience is desirable
• Remain approachable under pressure
• Act with integrity, tact and diplomacy
• Work as part of a team
• Ability to complete a variety of related tasks
• Pro-actively solve problems
• Excellent Customer Service skills
• Good time management skills
• Ability to be flexible within role
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Organised, diligent with attention to detail