Summary
The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for ensuring the statutory and management accounts are prepared and reported accurately to all stakeholders of the organisation.
They are responsible for balance‑sheet control, ensuring all finance business units report correctly and accurately in line with statutory requirements, multi‑standard requirements, and audit requirements. They will support tax preparations and compliance, including RDEC and VAT, and are responsible for inter‑company transactions and reconciliations. The ideal person can coach and support team members and financial systems while executing change to establish effective business processes, and will develop robust working relationships with all members of the finance community and the wider Lotus business.
What you’ll do
- Proactive member of the finance team, using technical expertise to support the full team in accordance with group policies and international GAAP, both internally and externally reported.
- Provision of technical support and management of internal and external audits.
- Execute, review and continuously improve the financial control framework.
- Develop, maintain and improve financial systems to simplify processing and improve control.
- Ensure connected parties are fully reconciled on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Document and maintain finance processes and procedures.
- Responsible for the financial aspects of SAP development and utilisation in Lotus.
- Work closely with all members of the Finance team to collate and disseminate financial reporting supporting statutory returns.
- Work alongside senior members of the rest of the business to improve organisation‑wide processes and deliver on audits.
- Lead interactions with internal and external auditors.
What you’ll bring
- Proactive and confident multi‑tasker able to push the workload, motivate the team and wider finance department.
- Analytical and critical, able to effectively identify gaps or errors in information.
- Able to cut through issues, simplify and communicate to a wider non‑finance audience.
- Ability to work both strategically and at a transactional level.
- Relishes development and continuous improvement of systems through collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills – written and oral.
- Reliable, flexible, diplomatic but able to be forceful when required, goal‑focused.
- Resilience, able to manage uneven patterns of workloads and be flexible to achieve tight deadlines.
What we offer
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working.
- Half‑day finish on a Friday.
- 6% pension contribution.
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme based on contribution and company performance.
- Private healthcare.
- Group income protection based on length of service.
- Paid time off for medical appointments.
- Employee car ownership scheme.
- Family‑friendly policies.
- Exclusive employee discount, wellbeing and recognition platform.
Additional Information
- This role will be working from our Hethel plant within our flexible working policy.
- This role is permanent and hybrid – minimum 3 days per week on site.
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