Financial Accountant

Elevation Recruitment Group are delighted to be working with a large and highly successful service-based business that is looking to appoint a Financial Accountant to join its FP&A team on a fully remote basis.

Reporting directly to the Head of FP&A, this is a key role responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity and timely delivery of financial information, with a particular focus on income, payroll costs and balance sheet reporting. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong financial accounting background who enjoys getting into the detail, improving processes and working collaboratively with both finance and operational teams.

Benefits will include: - 

• Salary up to £52,000
• Fully remote working
• 25 days holiday + stats 
• Company pension

As Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in the month-end and period-close process, ensuring income and payroll-related costs are accurately reflected in the management accounts. Duties will include: - 

• Maintain the financial integrity and accuracy of income-related actuals.
• Lead the period-close process for income and payroll-related areas.
• Review income completeness, trends and exceptions, resolving issues promptly.
• Prepare and review accruals, journals and accounting adjustments.
• Support the accurate accounting of payroll costs and salary-related accruals.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, including deferred income and income provisions.
• Investigate income and payroll-related variances and accounting queries.
• Provide finance support to budget holders, commissioners and internal stakeholders.
• Provide cover for the Income Analyst when required, ensuring billing, income processing and cash collection continue smoothly.
• Identify the root causes of recurring issues and introduce improvements to achieve a 'right first time' approach.
• Work with the Payroll team to ensure salary costs are accurately recognised and allocated.
• Support the preparation of statutory accounts and provide high-quality audit working papers and evidence.
• Respond to audit queries and support the implementation of audit recommendations.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvements, reducing manual intervention at month and year end.

To be successful, you will ideally have the following skills and experiences: - 

• A professional accounting qualification or be actively studying towards ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Experience within a practice environment would be highly desirable 
• A strong understanding of income recognition, accruals, deferred income and provisions.
• Experience with payroll-related accounting and salary accruals.
• Strong experience of balance sheet reconciliations and period-end close.
• Experience supporting operational finance processes such as billing, payroll or income analysis.
• Previous experience supporting year-end and external audit processes.
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong understanding of financial controls.
• Strong Excel and finance systems experience.
• The ability to organise and prioritise effectively against tight month-end deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to explain financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• A proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused approach.

If you're looking for a fully remote Financial Accountant role where you can take ownership, add value and develop within a successful business, please send in your CV today!