Deputy Financial Accountant in Southampton, Hampshire

Deputy Financial Accountant

Southampton

£220

Contract

ARM have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Financial Accountant, this role co-ordinates the delivery of financial accounting across the Agency, ensuring that processes are effective, a robust financial control environment is maintained, and value for money is obtained.

The Role:

• Running the monthly lease accounting process. This will include manual monthly journals, reconciliation of lease model balances and reconciliation of combined lease balances.
• Maintenance and development of existing lease models.
• Quarterly review of transactions to identify potential new leases and changes to existing leases
• Liaise and work with Finance Business Partners on lease accounting requirements
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, deliver to deadline and manage/work on concurrent tasks.
• Proactive approach to issue resolution
• Good inter-personal skills and communication to a non-financial community are essential, including verbal and written communication.

Requirements:

• AAT qualified or active studier, and/or qualified/part qualified CCAB professional qualification.
• Experience of balance sheet accounting.
• Demonstrable experience of communicating technical accounting principles to a non-finance audience.
• Ability to complete reconciliations involving manipulation of large volumes of data and associated problem solving.
• Intermediate knowledge of using Microsoft Excel is essential.
• Experience of using other Microsoft office products, including Word.