Group Lotus
Senior Financial Accountant

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Lotus Cars Limited
Lotus Cars builds world-class, high-performance and lightweight sports cars that are sold all around the world.
Lotus Cars Limited is the manufacturing site of Lotus in the UK. Here we produce all sportscars types such as the Emira and the Evija. To bring the company to the level we want it to be, we are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant in the Finance Department to join us in our manufacturing plant based in Hethel.
Summary
The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for ensuring the Statutory and Management accounts are prepared and reported accurately to all stakeholders of the organisation.
- Responsible for the Balance sheet control and accuracy ensuring all Finance Business units are reporting correctly and accurately inline with statutory requirements, multi standard requirements and audit requirements.
- Support the Tax preparations and compliance including but not limited to RDEC, VAT.
- Responsible for intercompany transactions and reconciliations.
- The ideal person is able to coach and support team members and financial systems whilst executing change to establish effective business processes.
- Develop robust working relationships with all other members of the finance community and the wider Lotus business.
What You'll Do
- Proactive member of the finance team, using technical expertise to support the full team in accordance with group policies and international GAAP, both internally and externally reported.
- Provision of technical support and management of internal and external audits.
- Execute, review any ongoing improvement of financial control framework.
- Development, maintenance and improvement of financial systems to simplify processing and improve control.
- Ensure Connected parties are fully reconciled on a monthly/qtrly and annual basis.
- Documentation and maintenance of finance processes and procedures.
- Responsible for financial aspects of SAP development and utilisation in Lotus.
- Work closely with all members of the Finance team to collate and disseminate financial reporting supporting statutory returns.
- Work alongside senior members of the rest of the business to improve organisation-wide processes and deliver on audits.
- Lead the interactions with internal and external auditors.
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- Analytical and critical – able to effectively identify gaps or errors in information.
- Able to cut through issues and simplify and communicate to a wider non-finance audience.
- Ability to work both strategically and at a transactional level.
- Relish development and continuous improvement of systems through collaboration
- Excellent communications skills – written and oral.
- Reliable, flexible, diplomatic but able to be forceful when required – goal focused.
- Resilience, able to manage uneven patterns of workloads and be flexible to achieving tight deadlines
What we offer:
In addition to a competitive salary, you will have access to the following benefits:
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Half day finish on a Friday
- 6% pension contribution
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme, based on your contribution and the performance of the company
- Private Healthcare
- Group income protection based on length of service
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- Employee Car Ownership Scheme
- Family Friendly policies
- Exclusive Employee discount, wellbeing and recognition platform #ForUSLOT


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Additional Information:
- This role will be working from our Hethel plant within our flexible working policy
- This role is Permanent / Hybrid - minimum 3 days per week on site.
Our Company:
Group Lotus is a leading sports car manufacturer with a 75-year long history of iconic designs, groundbreaking engineering and legendary victories on the F1 track. Today we are transforming into a truly global performance car brand focused on the electrical future. In 2022 we launched the Eletre, the world’s first all-electric hyper-SUV, and in 2023 our fully-electric Hyper-GT, Emeya. By 2026 Lotus will produce three more all-electric lifestyle models that change the game.
As part of the Lotus team, you push boundaries. Those of the car industry and of your own. Every member of the Lotus family has some of the pioneering mindset of founder Colin Chapman in them.
Hethel, Norfolk, England has been the home of Lotus for over 60 years, ever since Colin Chapman, our founder, started making championship-winning racing cars. In conjunction with production facilities in Norwich, and research facilities near Warwick, our UK sites offer a wide breadth of roles for all disciplines.
We're not just a car company; we're a diverse mix of talent from all walks of life. At Group Lotus, we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion are not just buzzwords but essential pillars of a thriving and successful organization. Read more here: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Lotus Cars.
Do you want to know what Sophisticated, Rebellious and Pioneering mean for Lotus Cars Limited? Come and take a look at our career site and join the incredible adventure: https://lotusukmanufacturing.teamtailor.com/
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