Sopra Steria
Financial Accountant

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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.
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.
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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
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
About Us
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.


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