Financial Accountant

The Financial Accountant’s role in the business is to support the Head of Finance with general day to day accounting duties and month end closing, ensuring all relevant postings are performed accurately and in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overheads review and postings on a monthly basis; posting relevant accruals and prepayments, ensuring the cost centres are posted up to date for month end closing.
• Manage cashflow forecast and ensure clear visibility of the businesses financial requirements and any risks that need to be addressed.
• Review payroll and post monthly payroll values to correct nominals, monitoring actual to forecast variance analysis.
• Work closely with commercial and operational management to ensure effective financial controls & risk mitigation in processes throughout the businesses that have a financial impact as well as timely resolution.
• Manage the cost centre and balance sheet structures including new nominals required and closing obsolete items.
• Manage the Group Intercompany reconciliation process concerning purchases and sales.
• Monitor reconciliation of all control accounts – Debtors / Creditors and Bank, and associated balance sheets within remit.
• Preparation of VAT returns.
• Ensure timely payment of payroll, VAT, corporation tax.
• Point of contact for the R&D tax credit process.
• Monitor business controls and propose improvements where necessary.
• Actively participate in the new ERP project concerning assets and overheads.
• Interface with external bodies – auditors, bank, tax, lawyers.
• Interface with the rest of the Finance team, and support the Head of Finance with ad hoc tasks as required.
• Potential opportunity to supervise accounts payable/receivables processes.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Qualifications: PQ/NQ/QBE
• Ability to identify, prioritise and action improvements.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Results oriented, able to clearly communicate at all levels with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence peers.
• Knowledge and experience of using ERP systems - preferably EFACS, or Infor LN or an equivalent.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Must have experience and feel comfortable working in a small accounting office where there is a requirement to multitask.
• Ability to work on own initiative with minimal supervision.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to work to deadlines & plan ahead.
• Team player with flexible attitude.
• Enthusiastic and positive personality.
• Target driven and a philosophy of continuous improvement.
• Commercial awareness.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years relevant working experience, with a proven record of demonstrating exceptional attention to detail and technical skills.
• Practical experience of Payroll and VAT returns.
• Experience of supervising a team desirable but not essential.
• Demonstrated delivery of tangible results.
• Demonstrated process improvement.
• Experience of working for a manufacturing company would be advantageous.

Benefits

• 24 days holiday, plus bank holidays - increasing with length of service.
• Free canteen.
• Free parking available on-site.
• Enhanced employer pension contribution (4% of gross salary).
• Death in Service insurance.
• Employee discount on Naim products.
• Wellbeing initiatives, including an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and discounted memberships at select local gyms.
• Alongside other, standard benefits (for example, training and development opportunities as appropriate to role).

About Naim Audio

Naim founder Julian Vereker MBE (1945-2000) was a racing car driver, entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Julian found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved. Not content with second best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century. This maverick approach to design, backed by over 40 years of engineering and craft, fuels our progress today. Choose Naim to go deeper into your music, for a completely immersive and involving listening experience.

Our hiring process

• Stage 1: Applied
• Stage 2: Review
• Stage 3: Initial interview
• Stage 4: Technical Interview
• Stage 5: On-site interview
• Stage 6: Hired