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.