Senior Management Accountant

Role: Senior Management Accountant

Sector: Healthcare Communications

Location: London

Full-time: Remote/Hybrid

Salary £40,000 - £50,000

Ref: VFR3120

VisionFR is delighted to be assisting a successful and growing healthcare communications agency to find a bright and switched on Senior Management Accountant who will work directly with the Finance Director & Associate Director of Management Accounting.

Key Responsibilities for Senior Management Accountant Role:

• Maintenance and support, as well as assisting in, the control of all group purchase ledgers and overall PO management.
• Reconciling & filing quarterly HMRC VAT Returns & annual IRS 1099 reporting
• Playing a key role in the month end management accounts, to include but not limited to monthly Accruals, Prepayments, Freelancer Reconciliations, Overhead recharges & WIP postings
• Preparing monthly Balance Sheet and Transfer Pricing (TP) reconciliations, and FX revaluations
• Manage the accurate & timely management of supplier, credit card and expense payments
• Intercompany invoicing and monthly reconciliation of intercompany balances
• Providing requested information and support to the Finance Project Accountant (FPA) team & AR Management with FPA Team
• Working with the senior finance team on non labour overhead budgeting and forecasting
• Help ensure all recorded financial transactions comply with financial policies and procedures, as well as immediately highlighting any breaches to the senior team
• Supervising and line managing two Finance Assistants, providing training and mentorship on an ongoing basis
• Assist with timely and accurate tax filings and statutory reports for Group, US and UK subsidiary levels.
• Assisting with the preparation of year end accounts as well as the year end closes and audit
• Assisting with corporate cash flow and treasury management
• Compiling and updating master monthly and an annual accounting and finance timetable

Essential skills and experience for Senior Management Accountant Role:

• A number of years’ experience within the Marketing/Advertising/Comms industry
• Proven expertise on Paprika accounting software
• Ideally have worked for both US and UK companies
• Strong understanding of industry standards - including accounting and tax principles, credit control and related regulations
• Advanced skills in MS Office - in particular strong MS Excel skills are required
• Good team communication
• Good time management, planning and organisational skills
• Proactive and flexible approach, a problem solver, adaptable
• Preferably finance or accounting degree and/or part qualified from a relevant professional body, ideally looking to complete their studies in due course.
• Ability to work collegiately, but also on own initiative, and in a largely remote but still highly communicative and supportive environment

VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and recruitment and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.