Senior Financial Accountant - Chesterfield/London (Hybrid) - FPA - Permanent

Job reference number 303927

Senior Financial Accountant - Chesterfield/London (Hybrid) - FPA - Permanent
Competitive salary 
£4000 car allowance or £3500 cash equivalent 
Single person private healthcare 
Annual bonus potential
Generous annual leave offering of 27.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service
Full time
Permanent
Future Walk, Chesterfield, S49 1PF

This is a Hybrid Working role with a requirement to attend your closest geographical office, Chesterfield or London, three days per week. 

We’re currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, adapting towards a parcel delivery market, as well as taking environmental responsibility for our impact as a business. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Finance will play a key role in our transformation.

Are you a technically competent accountant with recent working knowledge and experience of IFRS? Are you up for a challenge in a dynamic financial accounting environment? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a proactive, driven individual to be part of our External Reporting Team. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.

Reporting into the Financial Accounting and External Supporting Lead, you will assist in the production of accurate, and timely, year end and half year Group consolidated Financial Statements and Financial Statements for the Group’s UK subsidiaries and Regulated business.

What will your job look like?
You will be a key stakeholder in the provision of specific financial accounting information, both internally and externally. Alongside this, you’ll be a crucial point of contact for technical accounting guidance across the business, including any developments in new or revised accounting standards.

Key tasks in role:
•    Preparation of the Group Financial Statements and supporting notes in the Half year and Full year announcements, ensuring that any relevant, new accounting standards/FRC guidance have been incorporated
•    Analysis of Group accounts consolidation schedules and preparation of the primary statements in the year end and half year financial statements
•    Ensure that the Group’s UK lease accounting is complete and accurate, including review of modifications and remeasurements, in line with IFRS 16 
•    Key point of contact for the external auditor throughout the audit process, providing information as required 
•    Ensure robust and accurate accounting for share based payments, including review and management of externally sourced information
•    Assist with the preparation and review of the Group’s UK subsidiary company financial statements
•    Preparation of the cash flow statement in the monthly Corporate Scorecard, working with key stakeholders in determining a robust analysis of cash flow, including specifically, working capital
•    Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
•    Management of monthly journals process for certain UK subsidiaries. 
•    Provision of information to the ONS and other external and internal stakeholders relating to Royal Mail’s financial performance

What do you need to succeed?
To truly excel in this role, you’ll possess, and be able to evidence, the essential skills and experience listed below:

Essential skills

•    Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
•    Strong working knowledge of IFRS, preferably in a large organisation/plc
•    Effective stakeholder management
•    Strong Excel skills (vlookups, pivots etc)

Essential experience 

•    Up-to-date knowledge and experience of IFRS
•    Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, but still maintain accuracy and attention to detail
•    Good organisational skills, able to manage and prioritise your own workload and work on own initiative
•    A team player but also capable of working on your own
•    Strong interpersonal skills – you will need to be able to communicate complex accounting concepts to senior management. 
•    Analytical and problem-solving capability
•    A continuous improvement mindset – a desire to improve processes and make efficiencies

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. 

Extra Benefits
•    Generous holiday entitlement of 27.5 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with years completed service
•    Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates 
•    RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
•    Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•    Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•    Supportive and generous company sick pay
•    Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
•    Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.  
•    Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
•    Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
•    Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts 
•    Free stamps at Christmas
*Available only to perm employees

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses. 

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations. 

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate. 

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be an interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.  

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Sunday 17th December 2023. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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