Financial Accountant

Newly created opportunity for a Financial Accountant to join our growing central accounting function. You will join a small team supporting the UK Accounting Controller in the completion of critical central accounting functions for the UK entities of Sopra Steria. The UK Accounting team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of UK reporting for both Group and Local Statutory requirements, monthly, quarterly and annually. This includes providing technical accounting advice to the UK Accounting teams. The UK Accounting Team also includes UK treasury and pensions management.

This is a hybrid variable role requiring office presence in our London office a couple of times per month.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid with London office attendance twice a month

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Adrian

Salary: Up to £60k

Benefits:

• £5,400 car allowance
• bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days
• private medical
• life assurance
• pension
• generous flexible benefits fund

What you will be doing:

• Completion of the UK external audit for both Group reporting and local statutory accounts including an interim review
• Management of the responses to the external audit queries
• Ensuring compliance with Group rules relating to finance, maintaining accounting policies
• Ensuring process documents are maintained and updated
• Ensuring Group controls are adhered to
• Be an active member of reviews for revenue recognition for customer contracts
• Be a technical accounting advisor to the UK finance community
• Responsibilities for the month end close process and review of results including analytical reviews (P&L and Balance Sheet)

What you’ll bring:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA Qualified accountant, preferably with an audit background and experience of preparing/reviewing UK statutory accounts.
• Experienced in UK statutory reporting, audit and technical accounting.
• Excellent technical accounting skills, ideally with a focus on revenue recognition.
• Self-motivated and diligent as well as professional behaviours, self-starter who is able to see tasks through to conclusion
• Oracle system experience desirable but not essential
• Controls design and monitoring would also be desirable.

We are a purpose driven digital transformation provider, creating innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We harness the power of innovation to drive positive change in both business and society, delivering sustainable growth and services which make life better, from effective frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services, utilities, and delivering smarter roads.

We place people at the heart of everything we do and are committed to working with our customers, partners and suppliers to shape a better world and add real and lasting social value to the communities in which we work. Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.