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Financial Accountant (UK & Ireland)
£35,000 + benefits
Permanent
Full-time (35 hours per week)
London, Wimbledon (flexible and hybrid working)
The role
As a Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in managing financial transactions, reconciliations, and supporting compliance within the central finance team. You will also have responsibility for maintaining the accounts of CIPD Ireland and providing financial support to the team in that region.
Whilst this is a hybrid UK-based role, travel to Ireland to build relationships, support the team and understand the business will be required once or twice a month.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Utilising accounting system to process and manage financial transactions related to the CIPD Ireland, CIPD UK and CIPD Enterprises.
- Day to day accounting activities to include managing payroll process, AR, AP and credit control for CIPD Ireland
- Posting transactions and month end journals in NetSuite including prepayments, accruals and revenue deferrals.
- Reconciliation between Netsuite and billing system to understand any adjustments required
- Collaborating with colleagues to understand revenue expectations for current and future months
- Financial reporting - preparing monthly, quarterly and annual reports, and providing insights into our financial performance
- Preparing tax returns and compliance reporting as required
- Participating in budgeting and forecasting activities for Ireland
- Collaborating with external auditors.
- Collaborating with the rest of the Central CIPD Finance team to ensure consistency in financial processes and reporting.
- Assisting in the development and implementation of financial policies and
- Foster effective communication and collaboration with Central CIPD Finance and Admin colleagues.
- Acting as a liaison between Ireland operations and the central finance/administration team.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field . Part-qualified e.g. ACCA or equivalent
- Accounting experience in a similar role, with a focus on ERPs such as Oracle (NetSuite), SAP, Microsoft. Experience in Netsuite (training will be provided)
- Experience of financial accounting and statutory reporting
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel (Vlookups Sumifs and pivot tables) and other relevant software applications
- Pr oficiency in using larger company accounting systems for financial transactions and reporting
- Ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks concurrently, manage own time and meet all deadlines particularly around month end and audit
- Strong analytical, attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, especially in cross-cultural settings
- Well organised with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with remote teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate integrity, a strong work ethic and a sense of urgency in completing tasks
- Desire to leverage technology to improve reporting and controls
About Us
We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.
There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.
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CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual. The CIPD define diversity as the differences in colour, ethnicity, abilities, age, gender, beliefs, interests, socioeconomic status(class), marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, geographic, academic/professional backgrounds, opinions, backgrounds, thinking, experiences, and many other personal characteristics. There is a growing body of research that shows that diverse workforce can be beneficial for decision making, innovation and problem solving as people bring a diverse range of skills and lived experiences with them. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.
Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.
