Senior Financial Accountant

Our client, a major international engineering organisation, are looking to appoint a Senior Financial Accountant to join their central accounting team.
This is a high‑impact role suited to someone who thrives in change, enjoys improving processes, and wants to progress to manager level within the next 18 months. The opportunity would suit someone with a large commercial business background or someone making a move from practice into industry.

Reporting to the Fixed & Lease Assets Manager, you will play a key role in standardising and strengthening asset accounting processes across the group.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and embedding consistent policies for Fixed and Lease Asset accounting

• Partnering with internal and external stakeholders on lease management

• Managing fixed and leased asset registers, ensuring accuracy and compliance

• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations

• Supporting IFRS 16 accounting and administration of the group’s lease accounting tool

• Supporting impairment reviews, valuations and component assessments

• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement

• Contributing to wider finance transformation initiatives
  

About you
We’re looking for a qualified, proactive, inquisitive and technically strong finance professional who enjoys problem‑solving and improving processes.

You will bring:

• Experience in a large professional practice or from a complex or international environment

• Good knowledge of Fixed and/or Lease Asset accounting plus a good understanding of IFRS16

• Experience reviewing or improving finance processes

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and act as a business partner across the wider business

• Experience with finance systems such as SAP, NAV, IFS, BPC or similar preferred

• A positive, adaptable approach to change

• A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

• Competitive salary

• Good hybrid working options (Portsmouth office + home working)

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Matched pension contributions up to 8%

• A comprehensive flexible benefits platform

• Employee share scheme

• Professional development and funded memberships

• Employee assistance programme
  

Please apply for immediate consideration

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