Financial Accountant

At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.

We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!

Benefits

Here at CV-Library, we value our employees and are committed to offering the best…

• 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Additional day off for your birthday
• Holiday buy/sell scheme
• Life Assurance – up to 3 times your annual salary
• Medicash healthcare cashback plan – includes dental, physio, osteopathy, complementary and alternative therapies such as reflexology
• Discounts as part of Medicash, gym memberships, shopping, entertainment etc.
• Eyecare and flu vouchers
• Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health First Aiders
• Pension contribution up to 7%
• Ongoing training and development – face to face training sessions available throughout the year
• LinkedIn Learning – over 5,000 free courses to choose from
• Long Service Awards

The Role

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:30
Location: Fleet, Hampshire
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days per week on site

We’re looking for an experienced Financial Accountant to join our dynamic finance team and help us shape and manage our organisation’s finance team. Someone who has solid credentials in core accounting, a track record working within a best-in-class Finance team, and has experience of overseeing and driving change.

If you’re on the lookout for a new challenge, and the chance to bring your knowledge, skills and experience into play where you can stand out and make a meaningful difference and contribution in a highly successful, rapidly evolving business, then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the month-end close process
• Preparing the monthly consolidated management accounts, including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow within the Group reporting timeframe
• Managing the payroll process with HR, including the calculation of sales commissions, and ensuring appropriate accounting entries are made and payments made to employees and HMRC as required
• Preparation of the annual statutory accounts including creating and maintaining the multi-currency aspects, preparing the year-end consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss accounts, and gathering all the data needed for the notes to the accounts
• Manage the annual audit across all group entities (UK/Ireland/US and South Africa), liaising with and coordinating activity with the external auditors during the process
• Overseeing the UK company tax reporting procedure and making sure timely and accurately prepared returns are filed – VAT and Corporation Tax
• To create the annual R&D tax claims including  working with the relevant employees of the relevant UK companies, to save a substantial amount of money on taxes by applying expertise and analysis of the business’ financial data
• Reviewing and approving payment runs
• One direct report and number two to the Financial Controller

What we’re looking for:

• Detailed knowledge of accounting standards and statutory requirements
• Preparation of consolidated, multi-currency financial statements and use of consolidation software/packages
• Experience of working in a fast-paced, dynamic digital business
• Knowledge of UK R&D Tax Legislation
• Experience of supporting the implementation of an ERP system
• Understanding of VAT rules and reporting requirements
• Interrogation, extraction and manipulation of data from ERP systems
• Extensive use of advanced Microsoft Office skills (particularly Excel, pivot tables and VLOOKUPs).
• ACA/ACCA qualified – 3 years PQ experience

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.