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Financial Accountant Location: Bedfordshire (Hybrid Working) Salary: £55-60k + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
An established and highly successful organisation is looking to appoint a Financial Accountant to join its Group Finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified finance professional with strong controls and governance experience to play a key role in strengthening the organisation's financial control environment and supporting compliance with evolving corporate governance requirements. Working as part of a second-line Finance Assurance function, you will partner with stakeholders across finance and operational teams to evaluate, monitor, and improve financial controls, providing assurance over key processes and supporting a robust risk and control framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Support financial and operational risk, control and assurance activities across the business.
- Conduct process walkthroughs and maintain risk, control and process documentation.
- Review and evaluate financial controls, identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Perform testing of key controls and support the delivery of the controls assurance programme.
- Identify control deficiencies and work with stakeholders to implement effective remediation plans.
- Support compliance with corporate governance and financial reporting requirements.
- Maintain governance, risk and control records.
- Partner with process owners to ensure controls documentation remains accurate and up to date.
- Assist with internal and external audit activities, including testing and walkthroughs.
- Assess the impact of process, system and organisational changes on the control environment.
- Prepare reporting on testing outcomes, control effectiveness and outstanding remediation actions.
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- ACA or ACCA qualified (strong preference).
- Previous experience in financial accounting, financial controls, audit, risk or assurance.
- Strong understanding of financial controls and internal control frameworks.
- Ability to clearly communicate risks, processes and controls to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Strong organisational, project management and prioritisation abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive and self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Financial Accountant looking to broaden their exposure to risk, controls, governance and assurance within a large, complex and fast-paced business environment.
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