Financial Accountant (mat cover - 6 Months)

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

8/13/2025

The purpose of this role is to work closely with the Financial Accounting Manager to ensure that the monthly management accounts and statutory financial statements are prepared on time and in line with company operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Complete monthly trial balance reconciliation
• .Regular monthly and year-end reporting with sponsor department (DBT)
• .Manage lease reporting requirements, including reconciliations, accruals, forecasting
• .Complete month-end and year-end journals for accruals, prepayments and adjustments, as well as relevant balance sheet reconciliations
• .Transactional review of monthly costs to ensure they are coded correctly
• .Manage fixed asset register including depreciation journals, additions, disposals and reconciliations
• .Responsible for preparing quarterly VAT submission
• .Assist with the preparation of financial statements under IFRS
• .Assist with external audit requests, ensuring queries are answered in a timely manner
• .Assist with the preparation of the year-end timetable whilst ensuring deliverables are met by the deadlines
• .As a senior staff member in finance, support junior finance members when required and consistently role model company values

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Skill

• s Hold a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA/CIMA
• ).Knowledge of preparing financial statements under IFRS / FRe
• M.Strong communication skill
• s.Ability to use own initiative to organise and prioritise workloads and ability to work to strict deadlines with accuracy and efficienc
• y.Knowledge of Managing Public Money principles is preferre
• d.Support the Financial Accounting Manager and liaise with external auditors (NAO
• ).Liaise internally and externally with stakeholders on all financial issu
• esAbility to work independently and being hands on for all aspects of financ
• e.Ability to use various mainstream finance and reporting tools, including mid-advanced level Excel skill
• s.Keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into dat
• a.Stay up to date with IFR
• S.Self-starter, able to organise and plan own work to meet deadline
• s.Strong collaboration skill
• s.Ensure finance processes are in line with FRC public body requirement

s.Please apply by following the link our website https://www.frc.org.uk/frc-for-you/careers and uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillse

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Rewards and bene

• fitsThe FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra le
• ave.Generous employer pension contribution of
• 10%.Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life servi
• ces.The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work sch
• eme.The FRC has a strong work/life balance et

hos.The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a r

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Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and pract

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The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line ma

nager.