Are you an experienced Financial Controller/Accounting specialist? If so I have an exciting opportunity for you with a firm in the media industry!
The role would be situated with their operations team based in Harlow. The role is Hybrid with 3x days a week on site, the salary for the role is up to £80,000 p/a. We are looking to get someone in ASAP.
Requirements:
- Looking for someone that is very technical, ideally a Chartered Accountant but at least ACCA qualified.
- Strong experience with team management
- Experience within a global/European company preferred
- Experience working with royalties is desired
- Stock Experience desired
Responsibilities:
- Running the Accounts function responsibility for all day-to-day accounting for the company and group. Direct reports are: Management Accountant; Credit Controller; Cash Manager; Purchase Ledger Manager; and two additional team members.
- Management accounts preparation of detailed monthly MAs including balance sheet, cash flow and overhead analysis; delivery to FD, Board and group; parent company accounts with straightforward consolidation.
- Budgeting and forecasting preparation and maintenance of annual budget and monthly forecasts.
- Cash and treasury group cash flow forecasting and management, overseeing daily banking requirements, primary contact with bank, foreign currency transactions, company credit cards.
- Stock overall responsibility for physical stock valuation and cost of sales calculation; periodic obsolescence review.
- Payroll, HR, admin and pensions manage the monthly payrolls (not processing), ensure pension payments are accurate and timely, preparation and liaison for annual company insurance, create and report PllD's.
- Taxation oversight of monthly VAT returns for UK and Germany, assistance with third party preparation of CT600, communication with HMRC and other tax offices as required.
- Compliance and company secretarial undertake group Company Secretarial duties (excludes Board Meeting attendance and minutes). Ensure group companies are compliant on all accounting matters.
- Statutory accounts - manage audit process, creation of statutory accounts, filing with Companies House; tax accounts filing in Germany and US.
