Year End Accountant

Year End Accountant Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Year End Accountant to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading the year end process;
  • Liaising with the National Audit Office (NAO) and ensuring all necessary documentation is available for audit;
  • Working as an intermediary between ALBs to resolve any counter party elimination mismatches;
  • Preparation, reviewing, sense checking and proof reading of final accounts;
  • Reviewing the accounts to ensure conformity with the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM);
  • Reviewing the C-Packs submitted by ALBs to ensure these are complete, accurate and the submitted data passes all validations;
  • Supporting colleagues and ALBs in the resolution of accounting (and budgetary) issues;
  • Responsible for the primary ledgers, financial controls, production and reconciliation of the balance sheet;
  • Provision of technical accounting (and possibly budgetary) advice;
  • Preparing adjusting journals as necessary;
  • Being the main point of contact for auditors;
  • Leading the group consolidations;
  • Ensuring the delivery against the audit schedules and timelines.

Requirements:

  • Qualified accountant with 2 years+ experience;
  • Will also be focusing on Balance Sheets, cheques, reports and Trial Balance;
  • Must have Year End experience;
  • Development and delivery of process improvements;
  • Experience and knowledge of IFRS, FRS102 and Charities SoRP;
  • Ideally be working towards professional accounting qualifications such as CIMA or ACCA;
  • Experience with transactional and balance sheet reconciliation tasks;
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence others;
  • External audit background;
  • Knowledge and experience of the FReM, Consolidated Budgeting Guidance (CBG), Managing Public Money and the Treasury’s supply estimates manual;
  • Candidates applying for this role should be available to start immediately;
  • Self-starter experienced in assisting with year end and liaising with auditors;
  • Strong experience working with high level bank reconciliations;
  • Advanced excel skills;
  • Experience using an accounting system such as Agresso or Great Plains.