Financial Accountant
1 day ago
Grangemouth
We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Financial Accountant to join our dynamic finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant who is keen to broaden their experience, contribute to key commercial initiatives, and develop towards a future business-partnering role 📈. As Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, supporting month-end and year-end close activities, and providing insight to help the business achieve its strategic objectives. With ongoing site growth, the role offers exposure to a range of exciting commercial and capital projects 🚀. You will work closely with the Finance Director and wider finance team to produce high-quality management information, forecasts, and analysis that support informed decision-making. 🔑 Key Responsibilities • Complete key elements of recurring month-end and year-end close processes 📅, • Perform balance sheet reconciliations, including fixed assets, prepayments, and liabilities 🧾, • Prepare monthly profit and loss statements and balance sheet reports 📊, • Analyse cost centre budgets, including MI on headcount and utility trends, providing meaningful insights to management 💡, • Manage essential internal processes such as new project and capital expenditure requests 🏗️, • Support the Finance Director with capex assessments and ROI evaluations 📈, • Assist with budgeting and forecasting through data gathering, trend analysis, and business partnering with site management 🤝, • Support internal and external audits by providing accurate documentation and information ✔️ Internal: • Finance Director, • Grangemouth Finance Team, • GBSS (Indian Shared Service Teams), • Procurement teams (Morpeth & Grangemouth) External: • External Auditors, • Banking partners 🏦 Reporting Structure • Reports to: Finance Director, • Direct Reports: None 🎓 Essential Qualifications & Experience • Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) 🎓, • Experience working within a finance team to deliver month-end close processes, • Strong background in balance sheet reconciliations and internal financial reporting